Saint Gobain - Registration document 2016

4 AN EFFICIENT AND RESPONSIBLE GROUP

3. A Group that is committed to the professional growth of its employees

Application of the requirements connected with the European REACH regulation Saint-Gobain is actively involved in the implementation of the REACH Regulation in order to ensure the regulatory compliance of the Group’s practices. All the Group’s Connected with the internal standard on toxic agents (TAS), businesses are concerned, whether as manufacturer, importer, user or distributor. Saint-Gobain is preparing for the deadline for registration in 2018, possibly bringing forward certain registrations in scenarios both as user and as manufacturer of substances. partnership with other European declaring parties concerned by the same substances. The Group is also working to take into account safety data sheets drawn up with exposure For the files submitted, Saint-Gobain is monitoring the evaluations made by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and the Member States, collaborating in exchanges and answering possible questions via the groups of declaring parties. The Group informs its suppliers of its uses of substances, for them to be taken into account in their registration files. It also regulatory compliance of its suppliers. systematically incorporates the REACH clause, reviewed in 2012, into all the purchase contracts in order to ensure the Finally, Saint-Gobain actively monitors the updates to the list of substances applying for authorization or subject to

order to fulfil its obligations of substitution and notification to its customers. authorization or restriction. The Group anticipates the first deadlines for the authorization of substances in Europe, in In non-EU countries subject to other regulations on chemicals (PARCHEM in Switzerland, Toxic Substances Control Act in monitors their development. Chemicals Management Plan in Canada, CHINA REACH in China, etc.), Saint-Gobain applies the regulations in force and the USA, Canadian Environmental Protection Act and the 2017. toxic agents and noise risk. It constitutes the rate of significant situations of chronic exposure to a danger to health. This indicator, known as HICE, will be applied as from (number of major and significant accidents for 100 sites: T2E), the Group has defined an indicator to control the risk to the health of its employees connected with their activities, in keeping with its health standards and as a priority targeted on In parallel with the indicators monitoring safety (total recordable accident rate: TRAR) and the environment guidance and make better decisions. A key performance indicator on this subject testifies to the Group’s desire to better understand certain facts by objectivizing by measure, and thus be able to provide better Steering indicators d)

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SAINT-GOBAIN - REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2016