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Environmental and Social Monitoring Report
Annual Report January – December 2013
PRC: Tianjin Cold Chain Logistics Facility
Development Project
Prepared by Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. for the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
This report has been submitted to ADB by Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. and is made publicly available in accordance with ADB’s public communications policy (2005). It does not necessarily reflect the views of ADB.
Annual Environmental and Social Monitoring Report of
Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Center Project
(From January to December, 2013)
Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Corporation Limited
March, 2014
Catalogue
1 Project Name and Summary Information ................................................................................. 1
1.1 Location ........................................................................................................................ 1
1.2 Scale, size and capacity ................................................................................................ 3
1.3 Reporting period covered by this monitoring report ....................................................... 4
1.4 Specification of project stage ........................................................................................ 5
1.5 Key developments and any major changes in project location and design .................... 5
2 Relevant Environmental Permits or Compliance Certificates ................................................... 6
2.1 Issued by government agency and Issuance dates ....................................................... 6
2.2 Permit conditions and renewal requirements ................................................................. 7
2.3 Other standards and/or certificates ............................................................................... 7
3 Grievance Redress Mechanism .............................................................................................. 9
3.1 Date established and description of organizational arrangements ................................. 9
3.2 Complaints, grievance, or protests received from Workers and Company employees ..11
4 Labor, Occupational and Community Health and Safety ........................................................12
4.1 Training programs carried out ......................................................................................12
4.2 Incidents recorded........................................................................................................15
4.3 Other health and safety events or outreach activities ...................................................16
4.4 Labor............................................................................................................................17
5 Environmental Management Capacity ....................................................................................19
5.1 Number of staff, qualifications and experience in environmental management .............19
5.2 Environmental and Social Management Capacity ........................................................20
5.3 Training programs carried out ......................................................................................23
5.4 Assessment of environmental management capacity needs ........................................24
6 Stakeholder Consultation .......................................................................................................26
6.1 Details of information disclosure and consultations ......................................................26
6.2 Details of approach on addressing the concerns and issues raised at consultations ....26
7 Compliance with Applicable Environmental and Social Safeguards Requirements ................27
7.1 Air quality .....................................................................................................................28
7.2 Noise............................................................................................................................30
7.3 Water quality ................................................................................................................31
7.4 Solid waste ..................................................................................................................32
8 Other Information and Feedback ............................................................................................34
8.1 Safety production standardization ................................................................................34
8.2 Accident emergency exercise ......................................................................................34
8.3 Fire drill ........................................................................................................................35
Appendix ...................................................................................................................................36
Appendix 1 .........................................................................................................................37
Appendix 2 .........................................................................................................................39
Appendix 3 .........................................................................................................................40
Appendix 4 .........................................................................................................................41
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1 Project Name and Summary Information
1.1 Location
The ‘Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Center Project’ is located in Tianjin Port Container
Logistics Center, in the intersection between Yuejin Road and Fifth Jiyun Road, adjacent to No.7
Gate of Tianjin Port, five km from Tianjin Port District, three km from Dongjiang Free Trade
Port Zone of Tianjin, and within one km from No.7 Gate of Tianjin Port and Newport Customs
(Figures 1-Figures3).
Figure 1: Project location overview.
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Figure 2: Tianjin geography, transport and landmarks.
Figure 3: Project site location map (courtesy Google Maps).
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1.2 Scale, size and capacity
The project consists of a large-capacity cold storage facility, including merchandise handling,
warehousing, logistics equipment and facility combined with customs inspection service facility
for fruits and vegetables, meat and aquatic products. There are cold storage warehouses and
affiliated facilities (Figure. 4). The cold storage warehouses have various temperature zones,
from deep cold of minus 50 degrees Celsius for aquatic products to below minus 20 for most
meats; and above zero for vegetables, flowers and fruits. The facility covers approximately 8
hectares (ha) including the main function building and cold storage areas, housing customs
inspection facility for large cold storage shipments, refrigerated container yard, logistics office,
fire pool, pump house and other supporting ancillary facilities.
Inspection bridge Administration and management
Fast inspection Channel Cold storage #1
Figure 4: Cold storage warehouses and affiliated facilities.
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The project includes the construction of a 4-storey administrative/office building, a 2-storey
quick inspection channel, three refrigerated warehouses, two refrigeration plant rooms, an
inspection bridge, and related utilities (water supply and drainage, heating, gas and power) and
public greenery areas. Table 1 shows the statistics of facilities on site.
Table 1: Statistics on buildings and facilities.
N
o
Item Floor
Area
(m2)
No. of
floors
Land
Area
(m2)
Notes
1 Administration and management 3,802 4 887 H=20.55 m, Office building
2 Cold storage #1 28,974 3 9,426
H=29.95 m, 30,000 t capacity of low
temperature storage unit, of which
the inspection and quarantine cold
storage room is located on the first
floor.
3 Cold storage #2 14,487 2 7,160 H=19.96 m, 30,000 t capacity of low
temperature storage unit
4 Refrigeration unit and electricity
transformer/distribution (2 units) 1,434 1 1,218 H=7.45 m
5 Cold storage #3(Bonded) 16,787 1 11,763 H=10.00 m, 20,000 t capacity of low
temperature storage unit
6 Inspection bridge 410 1 455 H=8.10 m
7 Dormitory and canteen 1,138 3 380 H=19.90 m
8 Fast inspection Channel 1,099 2 560 H=9.75 m
Total 68,131 31,849
1.3 Reporting period covered by this monitoring report
This monitoring report covered from January 2013 to December 2013.
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1.4 Specification of project stage
This project was constructed from June 2011, and finished in August 2012.
This monitoring report covered the operations stage from January 2013 to December 2013.
1.5 Key developments and any major changes in project location and design
There are no major changes in project location and design.
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2 Relevant Environmental Permits or Compliance Certificates
2.1 Issued by government agency and Issuance dates
Applicable laws and policies of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were listed below, also
with their issuance dates. All the laws and policies listed were in the validity durations.
1) PRC Environmental Protection Law, December 26, 1989.
2) PRC Law on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution, September 1, 2000.
3) PRC Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Noise Pollution, March 1,
1997.
4) PRC Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution, June 1, 2008.
5) PRC Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste,
April 1, 2005.
6) PRC Law on Water and Soil Conservation, June 29, 1991.
7) PRC Law on Promotion of Clean Production, January 1, 2003.
8) PRC Law on Environmental Impact Assessment, October 28, 2002.
9) PRC Law on Energy Conservation, January 1, 1998.
10) Construction Project Environmental Protection and Management Regulation, November
29, 1998.
11) Directory for the Classification of Construction Project Environmental Impact
Assessment, October 1, 2008.
12) Environmental Impact Assessment Public Participation Interim Guideline, (MEP
Announcement No. [2006]28), February 14, 2006.
13) National Directory of Hazardous Wastes, (MEP and NDRC Order No. 1, August 1,
2008).
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14) Production Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, June 25, 2002.
15) Circular of the State Council on further strengthening the work of safety in production,
July 19, 2010.
2.2 Permit conditions and renewal requirements
Approval Letters for the Environmental Impact Table were received on March 4, 2011, from
Municipal Environmental Protection, Appearance, and Management Bureau, Tanggu
Management Committee, Binhai New Area, Tianjin.
On December 30, 2011, because the project name changed from “Binhai TEDA Tianjin Port
Distribution Center Cold Storage Facility Project” to “Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Center
Project”, another approval letter was received from Municipal Environmental Protection,
Appearance, and Management Bureau, Tanggu Management Committee, Binhai New Area,
Tianjin.
The two permits mentioned above are provided in Appendix 1 and Appendix 2. Both permits are
permanent. And all the requirements in the two permits were executed in the project.
2.3 Other standards and/or certificates
2.3.1 PRC standards
1) Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment: General Program (HJ
2.1-2011).
2) Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment: Atmospheric Environment (HJ
2.2-2008).
3) Technical Guidelines for Noise Impact Assessment (HJ 2.4-2009).
4) Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment: Surface Water
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Environment (HJ/T 2.3-93).
5) Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment: Ground Water
Environment (HJ 610-2011).
6) Technical Guideline for Environmental Impact Assessment: Ecological Impact (HJ
19-2011) [replace HJ/T 19-1997].
7) Ambient Air Quality Standard (GB 3095-1996).
8) Emission Standard for Odor Pollutants (GB 14554-93).
9) Environmental Quality Standard for Noise (GB 3096-2008).
10) Noise Limits for Construction Site (GB 12523-90).
11) Emission Standard for Industrial Enterprises Noise at Boundary (GB 12348-2008).
12) Environmental Quality Standards for Surface Water (GB 3838-2002).
13) Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard (GB 8978-1996).
14) Identification Standards for Hazardous Wastes: Identification for Toxic Substance
Content (GB 5085-6-2007).
2.3.2ADB requirements
1) ADB’s Environmental Assessment Guidelines of 2003.
2) ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009.
3) ADB’s Social Protection Strategy, 2001.
2.3.3 Relevant International Agreements
1) Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 23
February 2005.
2) Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, 1 January1989.
3) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 21 March 1994.
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3 Grievance Redress Mechanism
3.1 Date established and description of organizational arrangements
The company established a complete grievance redress mechanism in November, 2012 and
issued a notification in the company. The organizational arrangements were shown in Figure. 5.
First, all grievances form public or employees will be informed to the general manager and
chairman of the labor union. Second, the meetings will be held by the general manager and
chairman of the labor union, and solutions will be forwarded. Third, the solutions will be notified
to public or employees, if there are still grievances the new solutions will be found through this
process. In this process the general manager and chairman of the labor union are in the charge of
the convening of meetings and the supervision of carrying out of solutions.
Figure 5: The settlement mechanism of grievances
Also, the company founded a grievance handling committee made up of General Manager, Vice
General Manager, manager of the general affairs department, manager of the department that the
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grievant works for and employee relations manager. If the grievance is submitted to the general
affairs department, the department is in charge of investigating, obtaining evidence, presenting
preliminary handling suggestion and participating works including research and response
feedback. The grievant can either make oral grievance or make written grievance. But no matter
what way is adopted, the grievant must fill out Employee Grievance/Response Form for record
(Appendix 3). After recording, it must be confirmed and signed by the grievant.
The person who accepts the grievance shall respond to the grievance within the extent of his/her
competence. If the grievant accepts the response, the grievance can be concluded. If the person
accepting the grievance cannot deal with the grievance, it can be dealt with according to the
grievance handling process. The result shall be formulated into Employee Grievance/Response
Form in triplicate. One copy is kept by the grievant. One copy is stored in the personal file of
the grievant. The last one is kept by the general affairs department on behalf of the company.
After the grievance settlement conclusion is issued, the employee relations manager of the
general affairs department is in charge of tracking and supervising execution of the conclusion.
During this monitoring report period (from January 2013 to December 2013), the grievance
redress mechanism was implemented. In order to preferably optimize the mechanism, third
supplementary terms were formed. First, any employee could send his grievance to the special
mailbox by E-mail, and a full-time staff will settle this grievance immediately. Second, if the
solution could not meet the demands of grievant, the process would be simplified and the
grievant could directly put his further opinion to the general manager and chairman of the labor
union and the new solution will be offered in seven days normally. Third, the modified grievance
redress mechanism was put on the publicity board and the public or employees also could give
his suggestion to the general manager and chairman of the labor. So far there are no objections
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received.
3.2 Complaints, grievance, or protests received from Workers and Company
employees
In order to guarantee interests of personnel of the local community and other relevant workers,
the company organizes Personnel Meeting periodically. The company will prepare fruits and
nuts and make the meeting a tea party. In this way, a relaxing and joyful atmosphere can be
created, and employees can speak out freely. The company can better understand thoughts of the
employees. General Manager, Vice General Manager and chairman of the labor union must be
present at the meeting. Leaders of all departments must take turns to participate the meeting. The
general affairs department is in charge of pre-preparation of the meeting, meeting record,
collecting opinions of the employees and putting improvement measures and processing results
on a board for publicity.
A meeting was held in July 10, 2013 about how to solve the way of employees going home.
Because the company is far from the midtown, a shuttle bus is arranged for staff. And no
counterviews were received about the solution.
In order to arouse the enthusiasm and work efficiency of employees$the meeting was held in
September 15, 2013 about the holiday adjustment mechanism. In line with fair, open and fair
principle employees would make independent choice to decide when and how to have his rest
without the decrease of rest days. Based on this mechanism, employees could apply for the
adjustment of rest day 30 days in advance and the company would decide every applicant’s
vacation date based on all these applications. Before the final decision is made the opinion of
each applicant would be taken and the economic compensation will be given to those who agree
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work in rest day. This mechanism provided employees the chance to adjust their rest scheme and
also got the agreement from employees and managers.
Figure 6: The Personnel Meeting.
4 Labor, Occupational and Community Health and Safety
4.1 Training programs carried out
The company has established some occupational rules and regulations since it started, such as fire
prevention system, fire risk rectification system, fire extinction and emergency evacuation plan
drill system, pressure vessel safety management rules, fire safety education and training system,
and refrigerating station management system. Refer to Figure 7 for relevant safety management
rules.
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Figure 7: Relevant safety management rules.
Lectures and training courses on health and safety are being held periodically in the plant. Till
now, more than 200 “person-time” with various types of work were trained for safety and health,
such as operation of fire extinguishers and gas masks. (Table 2 and Figure 8)
Table 2: The information of training.
Training Content Duration of
Training
Training
methods
Number of
People
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Work environment and risk factor, Condition of safe
production and regulation, Measures for accident and
occupational hazards and safety attentions
Half-day Training
course
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Various job security obligations, Operating skill,
Occupational injury and casualty accident
Half-day Training
course
21
Safety facilities and equipments, Use and maintain
individual protective articles, Self-rescue and
mutual-rescue, Evacuation and emergency handling
Half-day Training
course
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Work environment and risk factor, Condition of safe
production and regulation, Measures for accident and
occupational hazards and safety attentions
Half-day Training
course
54
Various job security obligations, Operating skill,
Occupational injury and casualty accident
Half-day Training
course
72
Self-rescue and mutual-rescue, Evacuation and
emergency handling
Half-day Training
course
65
Figure 8: the training course.
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For personnel health, the company offered physical examination for all employees last year.
Furthermore, the plant advocates personnel not only to maintain a healthy body, but also to
maintain good mental status. It means that personnel shall keep healthy both physically and
mentally, face their work, life and future with good physical and mental conditions. The plant
encourages its personnel to take part in sports activities and organizes collective activities at
fixed period. The plant also allocates funds specialized for sports activities. An evening
entertainment and one badminton game were held last year respectively, as shown in Figure 9.
Figure 9: The recreational and sports activities.
4.2 Incidents recorded
After the plant entered the operational stage, no production safety accident or personnel injury
occurred.
Meanwhile, the plant has formulated a contingency plan to deal with production accident. The
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plant will make regular check for relevant devices, materials and the alarm system according to
the contingency plan. Once a production accident occurs, the plant can reduce damage and loss
to the minimum by implementing the contingency plan.
4.3 Other health and safety events or outreach activities
In 2013, there were two major safety accidents related to liquid ammonia leak in China. On June
3rd 2013, an explosion and a big fire broke out in a plant of Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Co. which
is caused by liquid ammonia leak. 62 died and 54 injured in the accident; on August 31st, 2013, a
liquid ammonia leak accident occurred in Shanghai Weng Refrigeration Industrial Co., Ltd. 15
died and 25 injured in the accident. By citing the two safety accidents as a warning, the plant
continues to intensify production and operation safety management, set up strong awareness of
unexpected development and takes preventive measures, and propagandizes through workshop.
Also, the company thinks highly of communicating with the local communities to improve
understanding for each other. Tianjin port operating group visited the company on September 24,
2013, and had a conversation about business content, safety measure, common development and
so on (Refer to Figure 11).
Figure 11: The communication meeting.
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4.4 Labor
4.4.1 Labor
According to department requirements, open recruitment was carried out through internet abide
by the labor law of the People's Republic of China. There are no child labor, no forced labor, no
discrimination in hiring.
In order to safeguard the rights and interests of women, the heavy manual job recruitment only
male considering the field operation environment is not suitable for women's long-term work.
And other jobs are not limited to men and women to ensure the employment fairness.
The working time is strictly controlled in the range of labor law, both to ensure operation safety
and ensure the health of employees. According to the operation situation, annual leave was
provided for every staff with reasonable arrangement, which guarantee the legitimate rights and
interests of employees.
The company and the labor union kept close communication, and no staff complaints happened.
4.4.2 Jobs and Employment Opportunities to Local Community
There are totally 120 employees in the company, in which 28 employees were local person while
92 employees were from the other provinces.
The structure of the 120 employees was shown in Table 3.
Table 3: The structure of employees.
Job
Number of employees Monthly Salary Scale
Male Female Total Male(IIII) Female(IIII)
executive staff 8 4 12 49360.04 24680.02
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financial staff 5 1 6 26055.79 5211.16
dispatcher 3 1 4 7054.73 2351.58
device group 10 0 10 56145.83 0.00
tally clerk 16 0 16 48622.60 0.00
forklift driver 38 0 38 147731.81 0.00
checking bridge detector 5 0 5 12593.91 0.00
custom service 4 4 8 14560.30 14560.30
Assistant detector 9 4 13 32544.71 14464.31
others 6 2 8 37301.94 12433.98
Total 104 16 120 431971.66 73701.35
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5 Environmental Management Capacity
5.1 Number of staff, qualifications and experience in environmental management
Refer to Figure 9 for the organization structure and major administrative staff for environment
management. Heads of all business departments and functional departments are in charge of
environmental management of the plant. Such personnel organization structure benefits
formulation and execution of the overall environmental management. All environmental
management personnel possess bachelor’s degree or above and have undergone different levels
of trainings concerning environmental management for many times. They are well aware of
national environmental laws and regulations and requirements of Asian Development Bank on
environmental protection. In actual work, they can do their work well while protecting the
environment, detect problems promptly and figure out solutions as soon as possible.
In Figure 12, Jiang Bo is in charge of environmental management of company and also the
Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) supervisor. The whole environmental work were
mainly completed by Mr. Jiang and his staff, with Jiang Bo responsible for setting the rules,
Zhou Shicang responsible for organizing activities, Hei Muhui responsible for supervising and
inspecting product safety and Guo Jian responsible for safety of moving and storing goods.
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Figure 12: Organization structure and major administrative staff for environment
management.
5.2 Environmental and Social Management Capacity
5.2.1 Environmental issues
The plant always attaches importance to environmental issues. During its operative period, the
company formulated environmental impact mitigation measures, in strict accordance with
national environmental laws and regulations and requirements of Asian Development Bank on
environmental protection. It will also monitor basic index concerning environmental quality
periodically, intensify environmental system management continuously, carry out public
consultation and information disclosure and implement the grievance redress mechanism.
There are also specialized facilities and management systems to deal with air pollution, noise,
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wastewater and garbage discharged by the plant as well as environmental risks generated in the
freezing room. With regard to pollutant discharge, the plant will meet the standards issued by
relevant authorities.
5.2.2 Health and safety
The company promises to observe all national and local laws and regulations concerning
environmental protection and occupational health and safety as well as other requirements, try to
obtain the best health and safety performance in the industry, establish and maintain the
occupation health safety management system, prevent pollution and accidents and improve the
safety performance continuously. The company sticks to a people-oriented concept to create a
safe, healthy and comfortable working environment and reduce occupational hazards. The
company bought some equipment for worker’s health and safety, as shown in Figure 13 and
Table 4.
(1) Protective clothing (2) Breathing machine (3) Eye washing machine (4) Explosion-proof pump
Figure 13: health and safety facilities.
Table 4: The Equipment bought for staff.
Serial Item Type Number Unit price′′′′¥
″″″″
Amount′′′′¥
″″″″
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1 Ammonia Suit RFH 4 7200.00 28800.00
2 Mobile Eye Washing
Machine 65L 3 5100.00 15300.00
3 Handheld Ammonia Meter GAXT 2 6400.00 12800.00
4
Positive Pressure
Breathing Apparatus 6.8L 2 6200.00 12400.00
5
Explosion-proof
Ventilating Fan 1 6500.00 6500.00
6
Explosion-proof
Submerged Pump BQW10 1 5000.00 5000.00
7 Explosion-proof luminaire
4 560.00 2240.00
8 Eye Washing Machine
1 1860.00 1860.00
9 atomizer 403C 1 960.00 960.00
10 protective boots RFH 4 230.00 920.00
11 dilution pump
1 900.00 900.00
12 oxygen bottle 4L 1 600.00 600.00
13 Ammonia gloves RFH 4 120.00 480.00
Total 88,760.00
5.2.3 National environmental laws and regulations
The company always attaches importance to the study of national environmental laws and
regulations, makes the relevant laws and regulations a major part that is explained in the training
courses on safety and health which are held periodically in order to enhance environmental legal
awareness of the staff. The following laws are mainly popularized among staff: “Law of the
People Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Pollution From Environmental Noise”;
“Law of the People Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution”;
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“Emission standards for odor pollutants”; “Integrated wastewater discharge standard”; “Emission
standard for industrial enterprises noise at boundary”.
5.2.4 Applicable ADB’s environmental safeguard requirements
Part of the founding capital of the company was provided by the Asian Development Bank. The
environmental management system of the company must be in line with requirements of the
bank on environment. Therefore, the company will hold trainings on Asian Development Bank’s
requirements on environmental and social management periodically. The training plan hasn’t
drawn up yet, and may complete and carry out in next year.
5.3 Training programs carried out
Environmental management work of the plant mainly focuses on monitoring discharge of waste
gas, noise, wastewater and garbage and environmental risks in the freezing room. The specific
training content is as follows. p waste gas: variety, quantity and collecting and handling
methods of the waste gases discharged in normal and abnormal conditions; q noise: intensity
and types of noises generated by devices in the freezing room, heat pumps and lifts, noise
propagation and attenuation conditions; r waste water: quantity of sanitary sewage and
process waste water, pollutant concentration and handling methods; s garbage: variety and
quantity of household garbage, disqualified products and hazardous wastes generated in
maintenance and repair process, separate collection of the garbage and handling methods; t
environmental risks in the freezing room: confirmation of ammonia environmental risks,
identification of major hazard sources, precautionary measures and emergency plans for the
accidents.
With regard to training, a step-by-step method which gives priority to key points shall be carried
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out and three training have been conducted, The company will help the personnel have an
in-depth understanding of the content and spirit of environmental management by holding
training courses.
5.4 Assessment of environmental management capacity needs
During the trial operation and operation period, the environmental management system has been
executed strictly in the company. No environmental pollution event has occurred. The plant has
obtained remarkable performance in environment protection and health of the personnel.
Meanwhile, the plant has further plans to enhance the environmental management capability.
The details are as follows:
1) Status analysis and assessment. The plant will invite specialized organization to carry out
detection and analysis on environmental conditions of the plant twice every year or do the work
itself. Priority will be given to hazardous materials in the plant (storage, utilization and discharge
of ammonia). Taking operation and management of the plant into consideration, the plant will
make comprehensive assessment on all kinds of environmental issues and manage potential
hazards promptly.
2) Up-to-standard and safeguard measures. At present, discharge of all kinds of pollutants has
met the standards established by relevant authorities at all levels. In the future, the plant will
expand its business in terms of volume, varieties, quantity and frequency of goods delivered into
and out of the plant by a large margin. It will certainly intensify the pollution load. Therefore, the
plant plans to enhance capability to handle all kinds of pollutants, purchase relevant process
equipment, designate independent processing space and make sure that the pollutant discharge is
within acceptable limits.
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3) Increase investment in environmental protection. As the society pays more and more attention
to environmental protection, the plant keeps increasing investment in environmental
management, and the funds will be mainly used to improve the existing pollution control
equipment, environment monitoring equipment and pollutant disposal facilities. At present, the
company is planning to purchase or rent some disposal facilities, such as upgrade the on-line
ammonia monitoring facility, purchase personal masks for dust protection, and maintain the
ventilating fan.
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6 Stakeholder Consultation
6.1 Details of information disclosure and consultations
The Project site is located in an industrial zone of the Tianjin Port. The site and its surrounding
area are zoned for logistics land uses, mainly warehousing and container stacking and sorting
facilities that complement the Port. As the land was considered by the Company to have no
native inhabitants or residents, there were no considerations made for resettlement of existing
residents or special provisions for indigenous peoples.
Although there is no resident or public facility within 1 km of the project site, an extensive
public consultation was still carried out in November, 2012. The Company’s contractor
consulted neighboring companies prior to commissioning stage, and no counterviews were
received. Also, there were no counterviews received in the whole year of 2013.
6.2 Details of approach on addressing the concerns and issues raised at
consultations
In operation period, E-mails were sent to neighboring companies with complaint contact phone
numbers of the Company. No complaint was received in the whole year of 2013.
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7 Compliance with Applicable Environmental and Social Safeguards
Requirements
According to the Environmental and Social Management Plan, the mitigation measures should
be implemented in operation stage was listed in Table 5.
Table 5: Mitigation measures that should be implemented in operation stage.
Type Pollutant Mitigation measures Predicted Effect Status of
Compliance
Air
quality
Ammonia � The equipment should be
maintained and repaired by a
professional company of
mechanical refrigeration
During normal
operations, there is little
ammonia leakage. The
environment will not be
impacted.
Compliant
Noise LAeq � Erect noise barriers/shields
around noisy equipment
� Provide noise protective gears
to workers
Predictions show that
the noise generated by
these equipment would
comply with the
standard at site
boundary
Compliant
Water
quality
COD, BOD5, SS,
NH3-N, TP
� Meet DB 12/356-2008 Class
III standards for domestic
waste water discharged to
municipal sewer for treatment
The wastewater is
discharged in
compliance with the
effluent standard
Compliant
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at the WWTP in the bonded
area extension
Solid
waste
Domestic solid
waste from staff
� Collect the domestic rubbish
in categories for pick up by
the Environmental Sanitation
Bureau
The environment will
not be impacted
Compliant
Waste packs such as
plastics, carton, etc.
� Collect the waste in categories
and sell to external buyers
The environment will
not be impacted
Compliant
Waste oil,
oil-contained yarn,
etc.
� Collect, transport and dispose
these wastes by the external
maintenance and repair
company
The environment will
not be impacted
Compliant
7.1 Air quality
7.1.1 Ammonia machine room
Specialized personnel are appointed to install and maintain relevant ammonia devices and put
them in the ammonia machine room. There are two big ventilation openings in the room. On-line
monitoring on ammonia concentration is carried out in the room. Meanwhile environmental
quality and production safety are well guaranteed. Refer to Figure 14 for the ammonia machine
room and the on-line monitoring facility.
On September 2nd, 2013, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Tanggu, Binhai New
Area of Tianjin made a field test on ammonia in our company (Appendix 4). According to the
test results, the Short Time Exposure Concentration (Cstel) of ammonia were 0.41mg/m3,
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2.94mg/m3, 0.45 mg/m
3respectively, much lower than the 30 mg/m
3 requested by national
standard. And the Time-weighted Average Concentration (Ctwa) of ammonia was 0.27mg/m3,
much lower than the 20 mg/m3 requested by national standard.
7.1.2 Refrigeration storage
Refrigeration storage was important building to the Company, in which goods were stored.
Draught fans was installed to improve the environment of refrigeration storages. Also, automatic
doors were installed to reduce the leak of cool air in refrigeration storages. Refer to Figure 15
for the draught fans and automatic doors of refrigeration storages.
7.1.3 Smoking room
Considering the air quality of inner room and the labor health, smoking is forbidden in the public
place of the whole Company, including office, dormitory, storeroom and other buildings. People
who want to take a cigarette must smoke in the smoking room which is beside the office building.
Refer to Figure 16 for the smoking room.
Figure 14: The ammonia machine room and the on-line monitoring facility.
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Figure 15: The draught fans and automatic doors of refrigeration storages.
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Figure 16: The smoking room beside the office building.
7.2 Noise
High noise-level devices are put in a specialized workshop to alleviate the impact of noise on the
external environment, including refrigeration units and ground source heat pumps. (Figure 17)
Actual noise testing hasn’t been done in the facility. However, based on experience, the sound
levels of these devices were generally 90~100 dB(A).
If the employee has to enter the workshop for high noise-level devices, he/she must wear
protective earplugs in order to reduce the harm of noise to the personnel.
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(a) Refrigeration units (b)ground source heat pumps
Figure 17: High noise-level devices in workshop.
7.3 Water quality
7.3.1 Domestic waste water
There are men’s rooms and women’s rooms in the office area and the dormitories. The pipe
network will collect the sanitary sewage. After being disposed in the septic tank, it will enter the
sewage pipe network of the industrial park which is centrally managed by Tianjin Port
International Logistics Development Co., Ltd.
7.3.2 Fire pool
A fire pool is built in the plant. If risks and accidents occur in the plant, fire-fighting water will
be collected and kept in the fire pool. The waste water in the pool goes into sewage pipe network
for treatment in order to prevent waste water of fire prevention from flowing here and there and
pollute the surrounding environment. Refer to Figure 18 for site photo of the fire pool.
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Figure 18: The site photo of the fire pool.
7.4 Solid waste
There are trash baskets in every office, toilet and dormitory room to collect household garbage.
Every day, the personnel throw the garbage in the garbage transfer boxes. Tianjin Port
International Logistics Development Co., Ltd. is in charge of clearing the garbage transfer boxes
daily.
The company insists on making reclamation of solid waste and tries to reuse parts of garbage
generated in production and operation of the plant such as waste packaging paper, waste plastics
and scrap metal. Separate collection of garbage (refer to Figure19) is being made, and then the
garbage is being sold to the recyclers. In this way, reclamation of wastes can be realized and
certain economic benefits can be produced.
Presently, at the operational stage, the company has not made any machinery maintenance.
Maintenance of the transport vehicles have been made outside the plant. Therefore, so far, there
is no hazardous waste like used oil produced in the plant.
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Figure 19: Recyclables garbage can.
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8 Other Information and Feedback
In order to prevent risk accidents from occurring and reduce influence on the natural
environment and the social environment after an accident, the company has carried out overall
and meticulous work concerning safety production.
8.1 Safety production standardization
In May 2013, Tedahang Cold-Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. has cleared up and summarized internal
policies, measures and administrative systems related to safety production and applied for
enterprise safety production standardization certification from the Safety Production
Administration, Tanggu Branch in Binhai New Area of Tianjin.
With regard to the certification application process, it has passed appraisal of the review group
and the company has made further improvement based on advice of the review group.
8.2 Accident emergency exercise
Tedahang Cold-Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. has made a liquid ammonia leak emergency exercise
jointly with Fire Prevention Station of the Public Security Bureau of Tianjin Port on 25 June
2013. The exercise centered on the emergency of liquid ammonia pipe leak. The exercise had
rational and compact planning and clear division of labor. Firefighting trucks, respirators, antigas
masks, chemical protective clothing and other professional tools were used. It was well in line
with the practical situation, intensified safety protection awareness of the personnel and tested
their emergency response capability and coordination and joint action capability.
Refer to Figure 20 for site photo of the emergency exercise.
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Figure 20: The site photo of the emergency exercise.
8.3 Fire drill
Tedahang Cold-Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. paid great attention to fire protection, and established
thorough system. First, portable fire extinguishers were put on every floor of building, thus the
soft fire could be put out immediately. Second, firefighting water system covered all the plant.
Thirdly, firemen were invited to the company to teach all the labors fire protection knowledge.
Refer to Figure 21 for the related photos.
(1) Portable fire extinguisher; (2) Fire-pump room; (3) Firefighting training
Figure 21: The photos of fire drill.
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Appendix
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Appendix 1
Approval Letters for the Environmental Impact Table from Municipal Environmental
Protection, Appearance, and Management Bureau, Tanggu Management Committee,
Binhai New Area, Tianjin.
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Appendix 2
Approval letter for name change from Municipal Environmental Protection, Appearance,
and Management Bureau, Tanggu Management Committee, Binhai New Area, Tianjin.
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Appendix 3
Employee Grievance/Response Form
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Appendix 4
Field test report on ammonia by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Tanggu,
Binhai New Area of Tianjin on 2 September 2013.
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