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Title: Trends Facing Environmental Health


1
Trends Facing Environmental Health Safety
Functions of Business
  • Texas Instruments IncorporatedSensors
    Controls
  • Francis J. Veale, Jr., Esq.
  • Manager, Environmental, Safety Health Department

2
Agenda
  • Introduction to Texas Instruments, Sensors
    Controls
  • EHS Department Today
  • Trends facing EHS Departments
  • Final Thoughts

3
Introduction Texas Instruments Incorporated
  • TI comprised of four business divisions.
  • Semiconductor (85), Sensors Controls (10),
    Educational Technology Calculations (4), DLP
    TV (1).
  • SC comprised of three business units
  • Sensors, Controls, Radio Frequency Identification
  • SC has more than 7,000 employees around the
    globe
  • Technology Development and Manufacturing in nine
    locations in the Americas, Asia and Europe

4
Introduction Sensors Controls
  • Environmental Recognition
  • Selected Charter Member of EPA Performance Track
    Program.
  • 2001 Governors Award for Excellence in Toxics
    Use Reduction.
  • ISO 14001 Registered (November 2002)

5
Introduction Sensors Controls
  • SC manufactures sensors that are used in various
    automotive systems.
  • Supplies all the major automakers directly as a
    tier one supplier or through others as a sub-tier
    supplier.
  • Subject to the EU End-of- Life Vehicle (ELV)
    directive restricting material content and
    disposal of vehicles.

Automotive Sensors
AirConditioning
Coolant Level
Low GAccel. Trans- mission OccupantWeight T
irePressure
OilPressure
ABS
PowerSteering
AngularRateSensor
6
Introduction Sensors Controls
  • SC manufactures controls that are used in
    various electrical systems.
  • Supplies all the HVAC, telecommunications, and
    appliance markets.
  • Entire Control Products business product lines
    subject to globalization pressures.
  • Cost and location of key customers driving the
    shift of manufacturing to Asia.

Control Products
7
EHS Functions Future Trends
  • What are the roles of ESH function?
  • Compliance with regulatory, customer, and all
    other applicable requirements to which the
    organization is subject.
  • Prevention of ESH liabilities existing, related
    to the growth, and new from negatively
    impacting the organizations bottom-line.
  • Improvement of the organization by supplying
    value added ESH services.
  • The basic role of the ESH function remains as it
    is currently constituted, but the distribution of
    resources applied to each of the functional area
    changes.

8
EHS Functions Future Trends
  • Compliance
  • Operational Compliance With outsourcing of
    operations to best cost manufacturing locations,
    domestic compliance requirements not as great a
    focus as international compliance.
  • Recent Chinese government guidance of enforcement
    against non-compliant companies thereby
    generating more market share for the remaining
    companies who follow the regulations.
  • Product Compliance international material
    content and waste disposal directives, such as
    WEEE/RoHS and ELV, have become significant
    compliance requirements.
  • These directives have created a new breed of EHS
    staffer Product Environmental Engineer (the E
    equivalent of Product Safety)

9
EHS Functions Future Trends
  • EU Directives restricting Material Content
    (WEEE-RoHS, ELV) have caused OEMs and their
    entire supply chains to address, sometimes for
    the first time
  • the material content of their products,
  • processes for communicating this data to
    customers,
  • the re-design of their products.
  • While these requirements originate in Europe,
    they are quickly becoming de-facto international
    standards. Failure to comply will severely
    restrict the sale of nonconforming product.
  • These requirements are becoming the source of
    major market discontinuities that will likely
    result in significant shifts in market share.

10
EHS Functions Future Trends
  • Liability Prevention
  • Liability Remediation Domestic remediation
    placing a premium on and managing liabilities
    according to regulatory requirements. but at
    lowest cost to owner, and redeveloping
    contaminated facilities.
  • Stronger linkage between the real estate
    developers and the environmental firms that
    specialize in subsurface remediation.
  • International Liability In addition to property
    liability, EHS function must learn to define the
    potential of acquisitions, new products and
    technology partnerships to increase company
    liability.
  • Diminution of value due to inaccurate or
    incomplete assessment of liabilities related to
    international commerce.

11
EHS Functions Future Trends
  • Improvement
  • Product Improvement Trends show an increase in
    the quantity and complexity of EHS requirements
    worldwide. The EHS Function provides the
    expertise within the company to address these EHS
    requirements effectively.
  • Advanced preparation (i.e., addressing the EHS
    concern before it becomes a requirement) is more
    cost effective than addressing the EHS concern
    after it becomes a requirement.
  • Additionally, by addressing the requirement
    early, the company has the opportunity to turn
    the requirement into a competitive advantage.
  • Management System Improvement International
    emphasis on management systems including
    registration to ISO 14001 and OSHAS 18001.

12
Final Thoughts
  • The EHS Function is undergoing a dramatic change
    internationally.
  • Domestic EHS Function dividing into three general
    categories
  • Compliance Management with emphasis on management
    systems (ISO14001) and international compliance.
  • Liability Management with emphasis on
    Brownfields.
  • Product Environmental Engineering the
    environmental equivalent of Product Safety.
  • Domestic EHS functions with responsibility for
    international locations must find an effective
    method for defining and managing international
    liability.
  • Internationally, EHS Function typically
    emphasizes compliance with local requirements.
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