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Alcoa is a values-based company. Our Values—Integrity,
Respect, Innovation, Excellence and Environment, Health and
Safety—guide our work and help us accomplish our goals
the right way. They also align us with our stakeholders, from
employees, customers and suppliers to investors and the
communities in which we operate.
To strengthen our Environment, Health and Safety Value, Alcoa
introduced the “Stop for Safety” Program, which encourages
and recognizes employees for stopping work when they see
a potentially unsafe situation on the job. In our Global Voices
Survey of employees, the question, “If I see a situation that is
unsafe, I can stop work,” received the highest overall rating in the
survey. By reinforcing the message that nothing is more valuable
than human life, Alcoa has progressively improved its safety
performance over the years. In 2013, the Company experienced
no employee or contractor fatalities and reduced the days away,
restricted and transfer (DART) rate overall by 30% from 2012.
The total recordable incident rate fell by 8%.
Our Respect Value, which calls on employees to treat all
people with dignity and provide a diverse and inclusive work
environment, can be traced back to our co-founders Charles
Martin Hall and his sister Julia Hall. Julia offered technical advice
and expertise, and with painstaking detail, recorded the steps in
the invention process to produce aluminum inexpensively. Her
efforts resulted in Charles’ patent that launched Alcoa. Today,
as a result of an aggressive diversity initiative that increased
the number of women in leadership roles beyond our metals
and mining peers, the Company was selected for the coveted
2013 Catalyst Award. Each year this award is presented to
only select companies worldwide who are deemed best-in-class
for providing opportunities to women in the workplace. Our
dedication to being an employer of choice has earned
the Company accolades globally, including Best Company
for Women in Brazil from the Great Place to Work® Institute.
Alcoa also continues to be a sustainability leader. We achieved
an absolute reduction of 2.6 million metric tons of CO2e (from
46.5 million tons in 2012 to 43.9 million metric tons in 2013)
and another 1.5% decrease in the intensity of our greenhouse
gas emissions. For every metric ton of aluminum we now produce,
we emit 24% less greenhouse gases than we did in 2005.
Fulfilling the Alcoa vision of “Advancing each generation,” the
Alcoa Foundation launched two global programs in 2013 to help
advance sustainable design and to develop the manufacturing
workforce of the future.
The Pillars of Sustainable Education program prepares
students and professionals for careers in design and building
construction by engaging them in real-world sustainable design
projects. This program educates designers and architecture
and material engineering students about the environmental
and social sustainability of cities, while building visibility for
aluminum as a material of choice.
In recognition of Alcoa’s 125th anniversary, the Alcoa Foundation,
in partnership with non-profit organizations in eight countries,
designed an internship initiative that provides manufacturing
workforce readiness training and internship placement for more
than 500 unemployed young people.
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INCIDENT RATE
ALCOA INCIDENT RATES
Alcoa’s diversity initiative “Building Opportunities for Women in a ‘Hard Hat’
Company,” showcased how Alcoa broke down barriers in a male-dominated
industry and achieved greater gender representation through an aggressive
agenda. In 2013, nearly 21% of Alcoa’s senior managers were women,
outpacing our U.S. metals and mining industry peers nearly two to one.
As an example, Alcoans demonstrated a record-breaking commitment to the
communities where we operate—62% of worldwide employees gave their time
and skills, together with family, friends and retirees, to strengthen their communities
during the annual Month of Service in October. Our next generation helped replenish
the environment during Alcoa’s Month of Service in Brazil.