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Home > Reports > Sustainability Report 2019 > About > Performance Summary

Most material key performance indicators

Resource Efficiency

  • Unit
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
Unit 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Energy intensity GJ/t product sales 17* 17* 17* 17* 17*
Water intensity m3/t product sales 2.6* 2.6* 2.7* 2.6* 2.6*
Material-loss intensity t/t product sales 0.086* 0.072* 0.078* 0.070* 0.070*
Flaring reduction since 2010 (2) Percent 40 55* 43* 43* 48*
CO2 utilization (1) Million t 3.3* 3.6* 3.5* 4.0* 3.4*
Absolute waste reduction (new) Percent Will be reported in 2020

Climate Change

  • Unit
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
Unit 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Greenhouse-gas emission intensity tCO2eq/t product sales 1.25* 1.24* 1.23* 1.22* 1.17*
Renewable energy (new) GW Will be reported in 2020

Innovation and sustainability solutions

  • Unit
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
Unit 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Total patent portfolio Number 10,960 12,191 11,534 11,738 12,540
Sustainability solutions Cumulative number 68 78 82 82 88

Ethics + Integrity

  • Unit
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
Unit 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Compliance and integrity concerns raised (2) Number 123* 94* 114* 152* 157*
Incidents closed (2) Number 103* 94* 97* 119*# 135*
Violations found (addressed) (2) Number 56* 52* 58* 42*# 41*
Training completion (2) Percent 98* 99* 99* 99* 99*

Environment and Social Governance (ESG ) metrics

Environment, health, safety and security

  • Unit
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
Unit 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
EHSS rate3 Incidents/200,000 hours worked 0.48* 0.63* 0.50* 0.43* 0.57*
Total Recordable Incident Rate Incidents/200,000 hours worked 0.13* 0.14* 0.12* 0.14* 0.14*
Occupational Illness Rate Illnesses/200,000 hours worked 0.000* 0.002* 0.014* 0.003* 0.008*
Fatalities Number 0* 14* 1* 0* 0*
Process safety total incident rate Incidents/200,000 hours worked 0.01* 0.02* 0.01* 0.011* 0.03*
Hazardous substances released Metric tons (Mt) 192* 61* 105* 89* 224*

Human capital

  • Unit
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
Unit 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Women in the workplace Percent of workforce 7.9 7.7 7.2 7.3 7.5
Learning programs Participants 30,835 31,062 24,944 22,222 15,388

Social impacts and community relationships

  • Unit
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
Unit 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Community giving Million US$ 53.9 46.4 57.468 36.701 15.6

Supply chain

  • Unit
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
Unit 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Safety and Quality Assessment System – Liquids Percent of suppliers 100 100 100 100 100
Safety and Quality Assessment System – Solids Percent of suppliers 69 93 91 93

(*) Assured by KPMG.
(#) Adjusted for comparison purposes.
(1) Flaring reduction calculations are based on reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions.
(2) Compliance data are reported for the 23,500 employees of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation and its wholly-owned affiliates, but not for employees of SABIC’s non-wholly owned manufacturing joint ventures (or affiliates) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Note this is a severity-weighted rating.

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