Mining & Metals

Companies in the primary metals industry must overcome several significant challenges to reach sustainable development benchmarks, including reaching zero harm goals for their workforce.

ESS has substantial experience in this industry, with numerous products and solutions to help mining companies achieve operational excellence in EHS performance and assure your social license to operate.

Challenges and Solutions

	Industry Challenge	ESS Solution
	Worker Health & Safety. Prevent or mitigate costly workplace accidents with streamlined incident management. Improved information management supports uniform and consistent execution of safety policies and procedures and timely identification of accident trends, enabling companies to reach zero-harm objectives.	Health & Safety
	Regulatory Compliance. Simplify compliance with rapidly growing local, national and global environmental regulations and standards. Organizations need recordkeeping, monitoring, testing and reporting for compliance at a single facility or across a multi-jurisdictional enterprise.	Environmental Compliance
	GHG Inventory. Conduct a carbon inventory to estimate existing emissions and manage future emissions based on Kyoto Protocol standards.	GHG/Carbon Management
	CR Reporting. Collect, analyze and validate data for your annual non-financial reporting against goals outlined in the WBCSD Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development report.	Corporate Responsibility
	GHG Strategy. Analyze how market-driven compliance mandates will impact your company's operations. Companies need to produce market forecasts and analysis to optimize financial performance against market-based compliance standards, as carbon is, or soon will be, regarded as an asset or liability.	GHG/Carbon Management
	Emergency Planning and Response. Despite your best efforts, bad things can happen. Minimizing the impacts of a crisis event and recovering to normal operations quickly is critical, and this is best done by bringing your overall crisis management program together under one umbrella with our application.	Crisis Management
	Ensure refrigerant regulatory compliance with ozone-depleting substance (ODS) and greenhouse gas (GHG) refrigerants, while saving money on skyrocketing prices, and improving system reliability and energy efficiency.	Refrigerant Management

Industry Drivers

	Compliance	Business
	Federal Environmental Agencies (e.g., US EPA, Environment Canada, European Commission DG) Multi-Media Pollutant Release and Discharge Reporting (e.g., US FormR, EU PRTR, Canadian NPRI, Australian NPI) Air Emission Regulations (e.g., US CAA Title V, US CAA HON) Hazardous Waste Regulations (e.g., US RCRA Large Quantity Generators) Surface Water Discharge Regulations (e.g., US NPDES point source and stormwater regulations) Safety Regulations (e.g., US Mine Safety) Refrigerant Management Regulations including Federal (e.g., US Clean Air Act Title VI) and the State/Provincial level (e.g., California Air Resources Board)	Increasing Output Demand Increasing Cost of Fuel and Chemicals Shifting Geopoltical Landscape

Selected Clients

	Clients	Scope
	Alcoa	The world's leading aluminum manufacturer conducting a global implementation that includes over 44 countries, 200 facilities, thousands of users all using 18 different languages within one centralized EMIS solution. Customer since 1995.
	ArcelorMittal Steel	The world's number one steel company, with over 320,000 employees in more than 60 countries, they have led the consolidation of the world steel industry. As a Global 500 and Fundamental Top 500 company, they represent around 10% of world steel output. Customer since 2004.
	US Steel	America’s largest integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States, Canada and Central Europe. Manufacturers of a wide range of value-added steel sheet and tubular products for the automotive, appliance, container, industrial machinery, construction, and oil and gas industries. Customer since 2006.