Sustainability

Contact Information

Global Nalco Locations
Local Sales Offices
Energy Services Contacts

 

Nalco Company
WPS Headquarters 
1601 W. Diehl Road
Naperville, Il 60563-1198
630-305-1000  Phone
630-305-2900  Fax

Nalco Energy Services Headquarters 
7705 Highway 90-A
Sugar Land, TX  77478
281-263-7000  Phone

 

 

Sustainability Structure

Note: Effective December 1, 2011 Nalco merged with Ecolab Inc. The information below is provided for historical purposes and will be updated as Nalco integrates with Ecolab.

Board of Directors

Nalco’s dedication to sustainability is built into our organization and starts at the top. Annually our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Erik Fyrwald, reviews our Safety, Health, Environment and Sustainability Principles, makes any refinements and re-signs them as a demonstration of that continuing commitment. The current version of those principles can be found here.

Other than Mr. Fyrwald, our Board of Directors is composed entirely of members who are independent of the company and who provide Nalco with a combination of industry, corporate management and financial experience along with other skills. Together with our overall corporate governance structure and policies, this strikes an appropriate balance between strong and consistent leadership and independent oversight of our business and affairs. The global governance rating agency GovernanceMetrics International has given Nalco’s corporate governance an overall global rating of 9 (well above average) and a home market rating of 8.5 (above average) on a scale of 1 to 10.

Committees of the Board

The Board of Directors has standing Audit, Compensation, Nominating and Corporate Governance and Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) committees.

SH&E Committee

The SHE Committee monitors the company’s compliance with safety, health and environmental laws and regulations. It also oversees and reviews SHE policies and ensures Nalco continuously earns the trust and confidence of employees, customers, shareholders, neighboring communities and other stakeholders.

The SHE Committee met four times in 2010, regularly reviewing our safety dashboard of strategic safety KPIs (key performance indicators) and other SHE issues. The Committee’s review of two fatalities in 2010 (one a Nalco contractor in India, the second a Nalco customer delivery specialist in the United States) focused on analyzing root causes and further enhancing our safety culture. More details on the specific actions being taken can be found in the Social Sustainability section of this website.

SHE Committee efforts to enhance safety training for newly hired employees led to the development of a new onboarding safety training CD. This new tool includes competency tests and allows results to be uploaded to our learning management system for tracking. The portability of the CD format allows for easier, more consistent global implementation of this preventative policy.

Sustainability Steering Team

A Sustainability Steering Team (SST) reports to our Chief Executive and the Executive Council of Nalco. This multi-functional team identifies sustainability trends and helps the company establish goals, policies and procedures that support our corporate mission of creating value for customers while helping them save water and energy, enhance production, improve air quality and reduce total cost of operations.

Our Director of Sustainability coordinates SST activities and is responsible for developing the policies, strategy and messages that create, deliver, document and communicate the value of our sustainable solutions for our customers and other stakeholders.