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comply ln Lhe conducL of lLs buslness affalrs wlLh all regulaLlons regardlng Lhe
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Environment, HeaIth & Safety PoIicy of Asian Paints Ltd.
O We consider compliance to statutory EHS requirements as the minimum performance standard and are committed to
go beyond and adopt stricter standards wherever appropriate.
O We shall focus on pollution abatement, resource optimization and waste minimization. We believe that these
measures will help in sustainable development.
O We are committed to the reduction of generation of solid waste and its disposal in a safe and environment friendly
manner.
O We are committed to continual improvement in the area of EHS.
O We shall give priority and attention to health and safety of employees.
O We shall train all employees (including employees of service providers) to carry out work in our premises and at
customer sites as per prescribed procedures designed to meet all EHS requirements of the Company.
O We shall encourage sharing of information and communication of our EHS management system with stake holders.
O We shall educate customers and the public on safe use of our products.
O When required under any law, for the time being in force, or to meet certification requirements, establishments shall
prescribe additional policies and procedures as required, subject to the direction provided by this EHS Policy.

och ndustries



Environmental and safety record
From 1999 to 2003, och ndustries was assessed "more than $400 million in fines, penalties and
judgments."
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[edit]PipeIine accidents
och ndustries was fined $35 million for 300 alleged pipeline spills across six states from 1990 to 1997,
adding up to 3 million US gallons (11,000 m
3
) of oil. The US Government had originally proposed fining
och $71 million to $214 million in penalties for violations of the Clean Water Act by those spills.
[28]

och's Sterling butane pipeline had a leak in Lively, Texas, on August 24, 1996. Two teenagers on the
way to report the leak drove into the unseen butane cloud, and were killed when the gas exploded and
burned. The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that severe external pipeline corrosion was
the cause of the failure, and recommended to och to improve corrosion evaluation procedures. Although
och distributed pamphlets about safety around the pipelines, they failed to maintain an up-to-date
mailing list. Only 5 out of 45 residences in the area of the accident had received pamphlets. The families
of the dead had not.
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n 1999, a Texas jury found that negligence had led to the rupture of the och pipeline that fueled the
explosion killing the two teenagers, and awarded a $296 million verdict "the largest compensatory
damages judgment in a wrongful death case against a corporation in U.S. history".
[27]

n a statement released in 2010, och ndustries responded to the criticisms in Jane Mayer's article
in The New Yorker, "Covert Operations: The Billionaire Brothers Who are Waging a War Against Obama,
The August, 1996 pipeline accident in Texas was a tragedy. och accepted responsibility immediately for
the incident, which is the only event of its kind in the company's history. The thorough review conducted
of this pipeline the year before the accident did not uncover any issues that posed a foreseeable threat to
public safety. The bacteria-induced corrosion that caused the accident acted more quickly to damage this
pipeline than had ever been documented by any industry expert. och's cooperative efforts to identify the
source and cause of this problem so that this knowledge could be shared throughout industry were
praised by the National Transportation Safety Board, which did a two-year investigation into this
incident.
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[edit]PoIIution and resource fines
n March 1999, och Petroleum Group, a och ndustries subsidiary, pled guilty to charges that it
had negligently dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of aviation fuelinto wetlands near the
Mississippi River from its refinery in Rosemount, Minnesota, and that it had also illegally dumped a million
gallons of high-ammonia wastewater onto the ground and into the Mississippi River. och Petroleum paid
the Dakota County Park System a $6 million fine and $2 million in remediation costs, and was ordered to
serve three years of probation.
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n 1999, a federal jury found that och ndustries had stolen oil from government and American
ndian lands, had lied about its purchases more than 24,000 times, and was fined $553,504.
[33]

n January 2000, a och ndustries subsidiary, och Pipeline, agreed to a $35 million settlement with
the U.S. Justice Department and the State of Texas. This settlement, including a $30 million civil fine, was
incurred for the firm's three hundred oil spills in Texas and five other states going back to
1990.
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The spills resulted in more than 3 million US gallons (11,000 m
3
) of crude oil leaking into
ponds, lakes, streams and coastal waters.
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n 2001, the company reached two settlements with the government. n April, the company reached a
$20 million settlement in exchange for admitting to covering up environmental violations at its refinery
in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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That May, och ndustries paid $25 million to the federal government to
settle a federal lawsuit that found the company had improperly taken more oil than it had paid for from
federal and ndian land.
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n June 2003, the US Commerce Department fined och ndustries subsidiary Flint Hill Resources a
$200,000 civil penalty. The fine settled charges that the company exported crude petroleum from the US
to Canada without proper US government authorization. The Commerce Department's Bureau of ndustry
and Security said from July 1997 to March 1999, och Petroleum (later called Flint Hill Resources)
committed 40 violations of Export Administration Regulations.
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n 2006, och ndustries' subsidiary Flint Hill Resources was fined nearly $16,000 by the EPA for 10
separate violations of the Clean Air Act at its Alaska oil refinery facilities, and required to spend another
$60,000 on safety equipment needed to help prevent future violations.
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n 2007, och Nitrogen's plant in Enid, Oklahoma, was listed as the third highest company releasing toxic
chemicals in Oklahoma, according to the EPA, ranking behind Perma-Fix Environmental Services in
Tulsa and Weyerhaeuser Co. in Valliant.
[43]
The facility produces about 10% of the US national production
of anhydrous ammonia, as well as urea and UAN.
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n 2010, och ndustries was ranked 10th on the list of top US corporate air polluters, the "Toxic 100 Air
Polluters", by the Political Economic Research nstitute at theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst.
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