Summary of main performance indicators

(XLS:) Download XLS

GRI ref.

Indicator description

 

 

 

Environmental

2010

2009

2008

EN1

Materials

 

 

 

 

Phthalates (tons)

31

16

25

 

Brominated flame retardants (tons)

0

 

3.1

2.3

 

Lead in submarine cables (tons)

3,632

3,600

6,596

 

Organic lead in polymers (tons)

52

24

36

 

Lead in other products (tons), e.g. backup batteries and counterweights in robots

265

313

354

 

Cadmium in industrial batteries (tons)

1.7

2.2

2.0

 

Cadmium in rechargeable batteries (tons)

5.9

4.7

6.4

 

Cadmium in lead alloy (tons)

2.7

2.5

5.3

 

Cadmium in other uses (tons)

0.18

0.05

n.a.

 

Mercury in products (tons)

0.038

0.011

0.015

 

SF6 insulation gas (inflow to ABB facilities) (tons)

968

962

987

 

SF6 insulation gas (outflow to customers) (tons)

959

951

969

 

No. of transformers with PCB oil in ABB facilities

3

6

7

 

No. of capacitors with PCB oil in ABB facilities

0

0

9

 

Mercury in instruments in ABB facilities (tons)

0.422

0.803

0.895

 

 

 

 

 

EN3

Direct energy consumption
(Gigawatt-hours – GWh)

 

 

 

 

Oil (11.63 MWh/ton)

114

87

104

 

Coal (7.56 MWh/ton)

0

0

0

 

Gas

427

415

416

 

Total direct energy used

542

502

520

 

 

 

 

 

EN4

Indirect energy consumption
(Gigawatt-hours – GWh)

 

 

 

 

District heat consumption

223

259

250

 

District heat: Losses at utilities

33

39

37

 

Electricity consumption

1,335

1,321

1,323

 

Electricity: Losses at utilities

1,844

1,824

1,627

 

Total indirect energy used

3,436

3,442

3,237

 

Megawatt-hours (MWh) per employee

18.0

17.9

17.5

 

 

 

 

 

EN8

Water withdrawal (kilotons)

 

 

 

 

Purchased from water companies

3,300

3,300

3,100

 

Groundwater extracted by ABB

2,700

2,900

2,700

 

Surface water extracted by ABB

2,900

2,700

2,800

 

Total water withdrawal

8,900

8,900

8,600

 

 

 

 

 

EN16

Greenhouse gas emissions
(kilotons CO2 equivalent)

 

 

 

 

Scope 1

 

 

 

 

Energy

117

107

112

 

SF6 (in CO2 equivalents)

247

263

406

 

CO2 from transport by own fleet

350

350

350

 

Scope 2

 

 

 

 

District heat consumption

49

57

55

 

District heat: Losses at utilities

8

9

8

 

Electricity consumption

293

290

287

 

Electricity: Losses at utilities

405

400

397

 

 

 

 

 

EN19

Emissions of volatile organic compounds (tons)

 

 

 

 

Volatile organic compounds (VOC)

786

782

909

 

Chlorinated volatile organic compounds (VOC-Cl)

11

5

6

 

 

 

 

 

EN20

Emissions of NOx and SOX
(tons SO2 and NO2)

 

 

 

 

SOX from burning coal

0

0

0

 

SOX from burning oil

84

64

76

 

NOX from burning coal

0

0

0

 

NOX from burning oil

63

48

57

 

NOX from burning gas

92

90

90

 

 

 

 

 

EN21

Discharge of process water
(percentage of ABB plants)

 

 

 

 

Discharge to public sewer

84

72

62

 

Discharge to recipient without treatment

3

9

13

 

Discharge to own treatment plant

13

20

25

 

 

 

 

 

EN22

Waste (kilotons)

 

 

 

 

Scrap metal recycled

135

71

92

 

Other waste recycled

44

46

47

 

General waste sent for disposal

38

29

35

 

Hazardous waste

9

6

7

 

 

 

 

 

EN23

Significant spills

 

 

 

 

Total number of spills

7

12

4

 

 

 

 

 

EN27

Products and services

 

 

 

 

Percentage of reclaimable material in products

90

90

90

 

 

 

 

 

Social

2010

2009

2008

LA1

Employment

 

 

 

 

Total workforce by region (ABB employees)

 

 

 

 

Europe

58,800

60,600

62,100

 

The Americas

17,700

17,100

20,000

 

Asia

30,900

29,900

29,100

 

Middle East and Africa

9,100

8,500

8,200

 

Total

116,500

116,100

119,400

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total numbers of part-time employees included above

 

 

 

 

Europe

3,133

5%

2,984

5%

3,392

 

The Americas

143

1%

92

1%

73

 

Asia

183

1%

268

1%

138

 

Middle East and Africa

4

<1%

112

2%

124

 

Total

3,463

3%

3,456

3%

3.827

 

 

 

 

 

LA2

Employee turnover

 

 

 

 

Turnover of all employees, including part-time

 

 

 

 

Europe

6,351

11%

5,985

10%

10%

 

The Americas

2,567

16%

3,826

23%

19%

 

Asia

4,346

14%

2,943

11%

11%

 

Middle East and Africa

463

8%

271

5%

11%

 

Total turnover for whole Group

13,727

12%

13,025

12%

11%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turnover of all female employees, including
part-time

 

 

 

 

Europe

1,407

2%

1,439

2%

1,307

 

The Americas

631

4%

635

4%

450

 

Asia

1,060

4%

520

2%

532

 

Middle East and Africa

51

<1%

19

<1%

128

 

Total turnover for whole Group

3,149

3%

2,613

2%

2,417

 

 

 

 

 

LA7

Occupational health and safety

 

 

 

 

Fatalities, injuries, lost days, diseases

 

 

 

 

Employee work–related fatalities

1

1

3

 

Incident rate

0.01

0.01

0.03

 

Employee work–related serious injuries

15

27

37

 

Incident rate

0.13

0.23

0.32

 

Employee commuting/business travel fatalities

2

1

2

 

Incident rate

0.02

0.01

0.02

 

Employee commuting/business travel serious injuries

5

0

3

 

Incident rate

0.04

0

0.03

 

Contractor work–related fatalities

2

3

4

 

Contractor work–related serious injuries

16

11

16

 

Contractor business travel fatalities

0

0

1

 

Members of the public fatalities

0

0

1

 

Employee working days lost due to industrial incidents

8,362

7,633

16,877

 

Employee occupational health diseases
(number of cases)

13

47

102

 

Employee total recordable incident rate

13.48

14.32

18.93

 

 

 

 

 

HR4

Non–discrimination

 

 

 

 

Total number of incidents of discrimination

6

0

0

 

Total number of incidents of harassment

18

0

0

 

 

 

 

 

SO6

Public policy

 

 

 

 

Financial and in-kind political contributions

$9,000

0

0

 

 

 

 

 

LA10

Training and education

 

 

 

 

Training per year per employee (average hours)

 

 

 

 

China

40

24

20

 

Germany

16

15

16

 

Sweden

10

10

17

 

India

4

3

28

 

United States

25

25

25

 

Switzerland

20

20

17

 

Finland

13

24

24

 

Italy

17

10

10

 

Brazil

26

28

31

 

Czech Republic

10

13

22

 

 

 

 

 

LA13

Diversity and equal opportunity

 

 

 

 

Women in senior management (percentage)

 

 

 

 

China

25%

 

Germany

4%

 

Sweden

22%

 

India

2%

 

United States

15%

 

Switzerland

7%

 

Finland

17%

 

Italy

7%

 

Brazil

7%

 

Czech Republic

19%