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REDUCING ENERGY

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he employees and management

from the PKA – Axle Production

department are monitoring energy efficiency management and thereby reducing energy consumption per production unit every year. To have a systematic

tool for this purpose, they have started

using an automatic evaluation software

to assess the operating costs in energy management visualised in Power

BI. “This software support was prepared for us by colleagues from the PSU

– Ecology and Occupational Protection and PKT – Technical Service departments, in cooperation with the

supplier. The system is continuously

comparing energy consumption from

the past with the monitored comparable period, depending on production and outdoor temperatures. Based

on these analyses, we then look at differences in detail to eliminate energy

wasting processes”, says Tomáš Dušek, who heads the department. One

of the specific “corrective” measures involved replacing 122 skylights. In addition to improving the lighting at production premises, this also reduced heat

leakage by about 60 percent, which ultimately reduced the heating costs in

our plan by 1,484 MWh per year.

This year, Axle Production will focus on saving compressed air. Backed

by the PSU department, it has already carried out a separate compressed

air consumption measurement in Hall

M1 – Axle Assembly. Thanks to local

measurements, they were able to detect up to 124 leakage sites. They calculated that the annual decrease

amounted to CZK 150,000 and immediately started to eliminate loss sources. “We would like to continue this

way in the upcoming period, when we

will focus on the electricity consumption, heat or water”, adds Dušek. RED

RULES IN HARMONY

WITH NATURE

COMPANY’S ECOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR MONITORED BY THE ECMS SYSTEM

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hen we first reported

about the Together4Integrity (T4I) program,

which is a VW Group initiative, we pointed out that this program would be

implemented by all Group companies,

including ŠKODA AUTO, in their internal regulations. T4I covers areas such

as compliance, integrity, risk management, culture and human resources,

legal affairs, corporate strategy, and

environmental protection. It is unlikely that anybody could have imagined how, for example, the principles of

compliance would affect environmental protection. But it is quite simple.

Environmental management

methods

The environmental management system (EMS), which is already running

and monitors environmental impact,

compliance with specifically set requirements and objectives in the field of

environmental protection, meets the

goals of the Group’s efforts in the area

of compliance. Compliance is gradually

becoming an integral part of our company’s strategy and culture across all

areas, including environmental protection. As a result, this aspect was added

to the original EMS, which was subsequently renamed the environmental management compliance system

(ECMS). It is based on already existing

EMS activities and systems. The program has been extended by further topics, procedures and mechanisms that

put greater emphasis on speak-up

communication, prevention and detection of breaches, grouping and managing environmentally relevant risks,

systematic education and informing

about the state of fulfilment of binding requirements in the field of environmental protection.

Any and all requirements, tasks

and responsibilities for implementing

the ECMS are described in Group

Directive KRL.0.17, which is based on

the requirements of the ISO 14001

standard and the standard for compliance management systems.

All Group brands’ parent companies are implementing the ECMS program in all phases of their business

activities and in the lifecycle of their

products and services. As one of the

major brands representing the Group,

ŠKODA has taken over the requirements for environmental compliance and incorporated them into its internal standards and it already applies.

The ECMS will be included in the

forthcoming, newly updated IMS manual to become part of the integrated

management system and will replace

the former EMS. All information will

be integrated into environmental training, which is intended for all ŠKODA

AUTO employees. RED

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Principles of

compliance and the

environment

Training effectiveness

(number of trained employees)

Four-eye principle for data entry –

prevention of accidental or intentional

confusion of data

Verifying the effectiveness

of corrective actions by audits

Reporting reasonable suspicion

of serious misconduct (fraud

detection)

Search for environmental risks and

their grouping in order to determine

preventive measures

FROM A COMPLIANCE

POINT OF VIEW,

ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION IS

MAINLY RAISING

THE FOLLOWING

QUESTIONS: HOW

DO WE PREVENT

VIOLATIONS OF

THE RULES IN THIS

AREA? HOW DO

WE DETECT THEM?

AND HOW DO WE

RESPOND TO THEM

APPROPRIATELY?

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