CSR Mercuria 2019 - Flipbook - Page 41
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Safety Data Sheets
While Mercuria strives to ensure it has properly
provided for a safe workplace for its employees
and contractors; we also see our role in similarly
assisting our customers and counterparties. As a
cornerstone to the management of all commodities, and particularly those that may qualify as
dangerous goods, providing timely and accurate
information and communications is key.
Mercuria offers Safety Data Sheets (SDS) which
comply with the United Nations Globally Harmonized Format as adopted by virtually every nation
around the globe. These documents are available both directly with product deliveries; and are
openly published on Mercuria’s website. [http://
www.mercuria.com/our-values/health-safety-and-environment] The SDS’ provide important
health and safety information about our products,
and serve as an effective, uniform mechanism to
provide appropriate hazard communication on
the commodities being supplied.
Beyond any documentation that would be paired
with the commodities Mercuria trades in, we also
assure that live persons can be contacted at any
time, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. The number for our call centers is included on our Safety
Data Sheets as well as any shipping documents
where Mercuria is the shipper of record. With a
keen understanding of the global nature of our
business, our call centers have translation services on hand to be able to engage with all callers
regardless of the language spoken.
Mercuria has been consistent from its inception
in regard to its expectation for all its business
to be conducted in a manner that fully complies
with the applicable regulations both in the locals
where our business is conducted; but beyond this
in a manner that is consistent with basic international standards.
In recognition of the continuing development of
the energy mix, we are striving to develop and
put in place measures to accurately assess and
quantify the impact of our business as a part of
the global environment. While we see our role in
continuing to help meet immediate and real-time
energy needs, we also are looking for measures
we can implement to both reduce direct impact
from our operations; as well as helping to develop and promote future sources of energy and the
distribution infrastructure which we see as being
core to the future transformation of the energy
sector.
As evidence of Mercuria’s tangible efforts in this
regard, during the past 18-months Mercuria has
undertaken over 30 million USD in improvements
to strengthen the operations of its corn-based
ethanol production, and a number of smaller projects across many of its other interests which will
help to further improve the facility’s environmental compliance programs and in turn will help to
minimize their environmental impacts. Mercuria
is also actively supporting investments in a number of projects as part of the furtherance of the
transition toward renewable sources of power. In
particular, we are helping to support several ventures engaged in efforts that will deploy industrial
level, distributed generation resources (primarily
solar) coupled with commercial battery storage
systems that can capture and store energy for
resupply to the grid during periods of higher demand.
Mercuria is also expanding upon its existing systems for quantifying the emissions related to its
operations. Beginning in 2014, Mercuria had reported Scope 3 emissions that were attributed to
the commodities it brought into or exported from
the US market. While this ties to the US EPA’s
GHG reporting mechanisms (particularly in terms
of that nation’s imports and exports), it does not
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