Environmental Management Systems
The Pasminco Environmental Policy was revised to include the requirements of ISO14001 in keeping with the company’s accreditation goal. The baseline audit of sites’ compliance with ISO14001 requirements was completed.

All sites should be accredited to the ISO14001standard by June 2001. Groupwide objectives to deliver the intent of the environment policy were established, with sites now setting targets for each objective.


Site Environmental Action Plans
The Executive Safety Health and Environment Committee (ESHE) reviewed the progress of the sites’ environmental action plans.
The review found that 44% of the more serious issues identified by the external audits of 1996 have been resolved to date.

The next round of external audits will commence in late 1999.


Australian Minerals Industry Code for Environmental Management
In August 1997, Pasminco signed the Australian Minerals Industry Code for Environmental Management, becoming one of 40 signatory companies operating in Australia and overseas.


Publicly Available Report
In line with the Minerals Industry Code, Pasminco will produce a publicly available environmental report. Publication is planned for August 1999 following consultation with shareholders, employees and communities near Pasminco operations about the scope of the report.


Compliance
Sites are required to report to the ESHE any significant environmental incidents and compliance breaches along with plans
to avoid recurrences. A ranking system is used to ensure effective prioritisation in resource allocation.

The main environmental issues for 1997/8 were non-compliance with the conditions of consent for ambient sulphur dioxide at Cockle Creek, some exceedence of the limits in the water permit at Budel Zink and of the statutory limit for lead in air at the boundary of the ARA Melbourne plant. Projects are currently in progress to resolve these issues in the short term.

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- Operations at a Glance (excerpt from Annual Report 1998)
- Production 5-Year Summary (excerpt from Annual Report 1998)
- Performance 10-Year Summary (excerpt from Annual Report 1998)

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- Pasminco Annual Report 1998 (full report including the above excerpts)

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