Achievements during 2005

• The implementation of occupational health and safety management systems and a continued drive toward a positive health and safety culture
• Environmental and social performance requirements defined for use by ABB’s freight forwarders
• Application of environmental and social assessments of customer projects intensified
• Decision taken to establish necessary actions to compensate for ABB’s emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases
• Wind power business initiative launched to better serve the global wind power industry
• Solutions to reduce customers’ energy needs given top priority

• Continue a strong focus on management and employee engagement in health and safety
• Establish action plan to compensate for ABB’s emissions of greenhouse gases (approximately 1.5 million tons of CO2 equivalent per year)
• Conduct stakeholder dialogues to assess ABB’s sustainability performance and identify new priorities
• Establish and formalize system for the sustainability assessment of customer projects
• Assess and identify sustainability requirements for ABB’s supply chain
• Further integrate sustainability issues in ABB’s project risk assessment model

• Significantly reduced the use of hazardous materials
• Updated ABB’s list of restricted materials
• Introduced lead-free soldering to comply with the EU Directive on the Restriction of Hazardous Substances
• Established take-back systems to comply with the EU Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
• Completed approximately 200 continual improvement projects identified by the local environmental management systems
• Helped develop and install the world's largest lithium ion (Li-ion) battery for emergency back-up power
• In Finland, delivered the country's largest wind power generator
• CO2 emissions from oil and gas platforms in the North Sea reduced through the introduction of HVDC Light technology

• Complete the phasing out of remaining hazardous materials, where technically viable
• Establish new environmental performance challenges for the group
• Identify opportunities to reduce ABB’s internal use of energy and to compensate for ABB’s emissions of greenhouse gases
• Introduce water-borne paint for robots to reduce emission of solvents
• Publish the first Environmental Product Declaration for robots
• Significantly reduce the use of cadmium in batteries for robots
• Significantly reduce the use of lead-based soldering

• Health and safety training for senior managers stepped up throughout the group; regional occupational health and safety advisor network developed
• Received 12 awards worldwide for ABB’s social performance
• In ten countries employee job satisfaction improved. In 12 it remained unchanged, and in one country it decreased
• Twelve countries implemented policies which go beyond the national requirements for equal opportunities and non-discrimination
• Fifteen countries conducted stakeholder dialogues
• Launched Access to Electricity project in India
• Contributed to the development of BLIHR’s new human rights guide for business
• Entered into a corporate sponsorship support program with the International Committee of the Red Cross

• Establish procedures to audit ABB’s business ethics performance
• Review criteria for assessing countries that could fall under ABB’s export control policy
• Review reporting procedures to better quantify social performance
• Conduct training courses for employees on human rights issues
• Continue with the development of safety leadership throughout the organization
• Further develop the ABB health and safety audit process