Responsible Care® Performance Metrics Update

1. Responsible Care®Performance Metrics Update March 20th, 2012 Al Biggs GM, Operational Excellence/ GPCA RCC Member – Sipchem

2. GPCA Performance Metric Program • Program Development, Background and Status • 2010 Scope, Results, Analysis and Conclusions • Next Steps

3. Responsible CAREPerformance Metrics • Vision • “To measure performance, openly report, make continual progress towards our goal of eliminating accidents, injuries or harm to human health and the environment from our products and operations” • GPCA Guiding Principle

4. Program Development Background and Status • Performance Metrics Task Force formed in early 2011 to develop scope, definitions and guidance document. • Guidance document completed and communicated to members during first half of 2011. • A total of twenty-one performance measures identified with phased implementation over a four year period. • Phase I reporting limited to eleven measures for 2010.

5. GPCA Responsible Care Performance Metric Annual Report GPCA Company Name : Report for the Year :

6. GPCA Responsible Care Performance Metric Annual Report

7. GPCA Responsible Care Performance Metric Annual Report Legend:

8. Program Development Background and Status • A ninety percent approval rating by member companies resulted in publication and distribution of the Guidance Document by GPCA during 3rd Qtr. 2011. • The Metrics Task Force was chartered as a Responsible Care Sub-committee in late 2011 to support: • Implementation of the GPCA Responsible Care Guiding Principles. • Improvements in the quality of performance reporting leading to overall Responsible Care improvements in the Region. • Further development RC metrics and provide implementation guidance

9. Responsible CARE Performance Metrics Sub-Committee Membership • Bader Aladwani - PIC • Manoel Fernandes - Borouge • Mortaza K Al-Yousef - Tasnee • Naved Khan - QAPCO • Qasim Yunus - Sabic • Ahmed Al-Hazmi - Sabic • Asrar Mohammed - Equate • Jassim Darwish - GPIC • Tariq Alauddin - Sipchem • Albert E. Biggs - Sipchem

10. 2010 Scope, Results,Analysis and Conclusions • Data for eleven measures requested for 2010 • Occupational Safety (4) • Process Safety (2) • Emissions and Discharges to the Environment (4) • Resource Utilization (1) • Fifty-five percent (20/36) of the member companies participated. • Encouraging first step of the journey! • Data sets provided were generally complete for the Occupational Safety category. Data sets for Process Safety measures were the least complete.

11. 2010 Scope, Results,Analysis and Conclusions • Large variability exists with some data sets (e.g. quantity of waste water discharged and COD) • Suggests lack of clarity and/or understanding around metric definitions. • Trending is needed to provide meaningful analysis for most measures. • 2011 data sets due April 15thwill help.

12. 2010 Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) for Employees

13. Occupational Safety Results, Analysisand Conclusions • Thirty-five percent of the companies that participated (7/20) reported a zero recordable injury rate? • Worker Safety is better for GPCA Member Companies Reporting compared to US benchmarks for 2009 and 2010. • Requesting additional data from member companies (e.g. man-hours worked and number of injuries) would allow for a more accurate calculation of regional industry average.

14. Next Steps • Promote Member Company reporting in accordance with the Guidance Document. 2011 Performance data is due April 15th. • Hold a one day workshop in 3rd Qtr. 2012 to enhance member company reporting processes. • Analyze Member Company data submittals , develop and issue a report covering results for 2010 and 2011 data sets during 2nd half 2012.

15. Thank You! Questions?