Sustainability
Committing to
grow responsibly

<2 tCO2/tcs GHG emission intensity

Zero effluent discharge

Improving >2 million lives

25% diversity in workforce

Environment

Ranked fourth in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for the global steel sector in 2019

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FACILITATING YOUTH EDUCATION

Corporate Social Responsibility

Reached >1.4 million lives
 

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NOTE: ALL FIGURES AS OF FY 2019-20

People

~6.9% women in the workforce
 

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Environment

At Tata Steel, we are in constant pursuit of minimising our environmental footprint and conserving the natural environment around us. Our philosophy of resource efficiency guides our investment decisions to monitor and mitigate the impact of our operations.

RAINWATER HARVESTING, NOAMUNDI IRON MINE
Emissions control
CO2 emission

Tata Steel aims to achieve emission intensity <2 tCO2/tcs by 2025. We continue to implement Internal Carbon Pricing in our capital expenditure appraisal process with the shadow price of carbon at US$15/tCO2.

Highlights of our CO2 emission reduction projects:

Carbon Capture and Use (CCU) at TSJ and at the Ferro Chrome plant at Bamnipal, Odisha

Assessment of renewable energy potential across our locations in India

Maximisation of scrap utilisation in steelmaking

Dust and gaseous emission

Upgradation of air pollution control equipment and better environment management in Jamshedpur, resulting in 25% reduction in dust emission since FY 2016-17

Pollution control system operations established at Kalinganagar resulting in 56% reduction in dust emissions from the first year of operations in FY 2016‑17

2.31 tCO2e/tcs
GHG emission intensity

0.38 kg/tcs
DUST EMISSION INTENSITY

TSJ is the Indian benchmark for CO2 emission intensity at 2.29 tCO2/tcs and energy intensity at 5.67 GCal/tcs for steel production through the Blast Furnace Basic Oxygen Furnace route.

NOTE: ALL FIGURES ARE FOR FY 2019-20

Rated ‘B’ in Climate Change and Water related disclosures in 2019

Tata Steel Bara Tertiary Treatment Plant won the ‘Industrial Water Project of the Year 2019’ Award presented by the Global Water Intelligence (GWI)

<2 tCO2/tcs GHG emission intensity

Water Management
TERTIARY TREATMENT PLANT, JAMSHEDPUR

Specific consumption of freshwater at Jamshedpur was at an all-time best at 2.8 m3/tcs, which is also an Indian steel industry benchmark

Constructed 177 water harvesting structures largely for agricultural use and partly for domestic use

3.11 m3/tcs

Specific water consumption

NOTE: ALL FIGURES ARE FOR FY 2019-20

Rated ‘B’ in Climate Change and Water related disclosures in 2019

Tata Steel Bara Tertiary Treatment Plant won the ‘Industrial Water Project of the Year 2019’ Award presented by the Global Water Intelligence (GWI)

<2 tCO2/tcs GHG emission intensity

Circular Economy

Steel is 100% recyclable and we are setting the bar in the industry with our steel recycling business that will help meet the growing demand for steel in a sustainable manner. It will formalise the scrap market in India and help the country transition to a scrap-based steelmaking route for a more sustainable future.

Recovered metal from steel slag is utilised in the steelmaking process and this scrap is used in steel melting shops, along with clean scrap and pooled iron.

Tata Steel handles ~17 MnTPA of by-products, which is converted and sold across 20+ product categories every year.

A steel scrap processing unit is under commissioning at Rohtak, Haryana with a 5,00,000 tonne per year capacity.

Tata Steel has formed a Carbon Impact Centre to have a focused intervention to drive low carbon transition and initiatives and to achieve a goal of carbon neutrality in the long-term.

0.73 m3/tcs
Effluent discharge intensity

100%
Total solid waste utilisation

NOTE: ALL FIGURES ARE FOR FY 2019-20
Road ahead

Continue investing in technologies to achieve the highest environmental performance standards

Sustain LD slag utilisation at 100%

Ensure no net loss of biodiversity at our mining locations

Impact on SDGs
Biodiversity

While Tata Steel’s current operations in India are not located in any of the identified biodiversity hotspots or protected areas, our mining operations (being extractive in nature) impact the flora and fauna in the region.

Therefore, we voluntarily partnered with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at our raw material locations in Jharkhand and Odisha for the implementation of biodiversity management plans.

100%

Total raw material sites covered under biodiversity management plan

Road ahead

Continue investing in technologies to achieve the highest environmental performance standards

Sustain LD slag utilisation at 100%

Ensure no net loss of biodiversity at our mining locations

Impact on SDGs
Corporate Social Responsibility

Our inclusive programmes give us the opportunity to work with and help communities flourish with us. We have partnered with various organisations and will continue to deepen our engagement with communities.

EMPOWERING GIRLS TO PURSUE SPORTS
Health, drinking water and sanitation

Response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Have been spearheading a deep‑dive into both the urban and rural communities in Jharkhand and Odisha since late March 2020 under a ten-point agenda, #CombatCovid-19

The agenda includes:

  • Provision of food and dry rations with hygiene kits to vulnerable communities
  • Enabling income-generation opportunities
  • Co-ordinating volunteer assistance to assuage the anxieties of citizens in light of uncertainty
  • Supporting migrant labour across India to connect with their families besides
  • Provision of relief materials
  • Creating market linkages for farmers to ensure their crops get a fair price amid the lockdown

8,02,095

LIVES IMPACTED THROUGH OUR INITATIVES DURING THE PANDEMIC

Prioritising maternal and child health

FY 2019-20 outcomes

  • Reached 58,620 mothers and children and enabled the reach of ASHA system to their homes
  • Sexual and reproductive health knowledge to 15,800 adolescents

97,000

PEOPLE EDUCATED ON THE HEALTH AND SURVIVAL OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER CHILDBIRTH

Focus on water consumption and effluent discharge

FY 2019-20 outcomes

  • Minimising freshwater consumption by upgradation of existing water treatment and cooling tower systems to increase its efficiency and reusing treated waste water from sewage Treatment Plant at Bara for industrial purpose
  • Undertaken river basin study to identify watershed-level risks at Jamshedpur

ASPIRE TO ACHIEVE SPECIFIC WATER CONSUMPTION OF <3 M3 BY 2025

Facilitating youth education
Education

Thousand Schools Programme facilitates education for children, through better teaching and learning methods, while improving school governance through School Management Committees.

Learning Beyond School is a fully-community-managed education resource centre that enables children to learn beyond school hours and become familiar with digital technology.

FY 2019-20 outcomes

  • ~2,00,000 children’s lives impacted through the Thousand Schools Programme
  • Almost all blocks in Odisha are now child labour-free zones

3,400 youth

REACHED THROUGH 32 COMMUNITY-RUN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTRES IN ODISHA

Residential camp schools, known as Masti Ki Pathshala, cater to children who are either dropouts or from vulnerable backgrounds engaged in child labour.

Saving Lost Childhood programme aims to reduce child labour in Jamshedpur.

FY 2019-20 outcomes

  • 700+ children covered from ~3,000
  • 10 residential and non-residential facilities in Jamshedpur

189

CHILDREN MAINSTREAMED UNDER MASTI KI PATHSHALA

Improving >2 million lives

Livelihood

Technical education institutes improve employability of the youth in our community through professional skilling courses.

Ek Pahal is a skilling initiative to constructively engage prison inmates by imparting in-house training to enable them to secure gainful employment, both within and outside the jail.

Digital skills for rural children imparted through a classroom-on-wheels, Kaushalyan, using an air-conditioned bus with workstations, an LED TV display as well as a trained computer faculty.

Nursing programmes to help address the issues of poverty, unemployment and mass migration through nursing training.

Outcomes

5.504

YOUTH ENROLLED

2,733

YOUTH TRAINED

2,197

YOUTH PLACED/SELF-EMPLOYED

Women Self-help Groups (SHGs) created in our communities to help impart skills and empower them to run an enterprise.

Outcomes

14,822

WOMEN EMPOWERED THROUGH SHGs

Improve agricultural productivity by investing in enhanced irrigation facilities for the community, waste land development and other allied activities.

Outcomes

17,032

FARMERS BENEFITED THROUGH AGRICULTURE PRODUCTIVITY TECHNIQUES AND ALLIED ACTIVITIES

Youth and sports

Empower youth by training stakeholders and providing them access to unparalleled sports facilities and nurturing sporting talent with career potential.

Outcomes

53,844

YOUTH ENGAGED THROUGH DIFFERENT SPORTS ACTIVITIES

Tribal Identity

Samvaad serves as an international platform for discussion among tribal communities.

Outcomes

7

regional editions of Samvaad held across India

2,115 tribals

FROM 150 TRIBES OF 13 COUNTRIES ATTENDED THE SAMVAAD 2019 EVENT

Preserve literary and cultural tribal heritage  in partnership with 12 tribal organisations.

Outcomes

23,005 students

OF JHARKHAND AND ODISHA STUDIED FIVE TRIBAL LANGUAGES IN 464 LANGUAGE CENTRES

Road ahead

Establish district models in improving access to quality education and healthcare for infants, mothers and adolescents

Continue to engage with tribal communities and nurture leadership potential among tribal youth

Explore partnerships with governments, social sector organisations, academia, experts and other organisations in the national and international development space

 

Adopt innovative ways of enhancing household income, community nutrition, completion of basic education till matriculation by all; dealing with endemic water deficiency, supporting the differently abled and enabling better self-governance among citizens at the Panchayat level

Impact on SDGs
People

Investing in people, striving to be the employer of choice, while creating a safe and healthy workplace constitute key priorities for Tata Steel. Industrial harmony of 90-plus years and a century-old trade union is a testament to our culture of ‘working together’.

32,984 employees

on roll (india)

6.9% women

in the workforce

Fostering diversity and inclusion | Note: All figures are for FY 2019-20
Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)

We have instituted policies that drive a culture of safety consciousness and prevention across our entire operations. Our commitment is reflected in the successful ramp-up of the Kalinganagar facility while maintaining the best practices in health and safety.

Leadership capability building at all levels to achieve zero harm and promote a safety-positive behaviour

Outcomes

~44%

reduction in high potential incidents

Elimination of safety incidents on road and rail to achieve safe, efficient and smart transport

Outcomes

  • Three fatalities inside plant premises sustained between FY 2014-15 and FY 2018-19

Competency and capability building to mitigate hazards and manage risks

Outcomes

  • ~300 supervisors and senior associates from various Centre of Excellence (CoE) departments trained on Process Safety Management
  • 10 safety standards simplified, including development of e-learning modules

Contractor safety risk management to engage and empower the sizeable contract workforce

Outcomes

  • 840+ high-risk job vendors assessed, of which 246 upgraded to 4-star rating and one to 5-star rating
  • 100% contractor employees trained and certified on various skills
Process safety management

Process safety management to ensure effective control of risks at high-hazard operations

Outcomes

1.2%

improvement in health index

  • Improvement in Health Index from 12.62 in FY 2018-19 to 12.70 in FY 2019-20
  • ~7,600 employees trained to improve competency on first-aid and CPR
  • 15 hazard control projects implemented in TSJ and Jharia Division for reduction of exposure level
Employee productivity and capability development

We have implemented the Employee Productivity Framework across our facilities and we continue to identify redundancies through programmes such as right skilling, Sunhere Bhavishya Ki Yojna and a job-for-job scheme. We are making significant progress in simplifying the organisation structure, systems and communications.

We also have a Workforce Capability and Capacity Framework to assess capability needs across the workforce for skill and competence building, customer focus, organisational performance, innovation, health and safety, and environment and business ethics.

803 tcs/employee/year

in the workforce

₹152.33 crore

invested in employee training and development

Note: all figures are for fy 2019-20
Diversity and inclusion

MOSAIC, our marquee initiative, covers four aspects: Gender, Person with Disabilities (PwDs), LGBTQ+, and other marginalised sections of the society. Through this initiative, we are inducting female engineers in manufacturing, sensitising employees about diversity and inclusion, retaining and developing diverse talent, creating infrastructure to simplify lives of working parents and members of the workforce with special needs.

With the objective of enabling greater flexibility and empowering our people, we provide paternity leave for blue-collared workers, offer project-based and full-time roles to women willing to return to work after a hiatus, facilitate satellite office operation for those with location constraints, provide menstrual leave without approval to those that require it, provide adoption leave to single male and transgender employees, and so on.

17.5%

employees from the affirmative action community

25% diversity in workforce

Road ahead

Improve employee productivity

Be one of the best places for people to work

Zero fatality

2% improvement in health index year on year

Impact on SDGs