The purpose of this visit was to witness the compliance with environmental protection guidelines of chemical manufacturing companies in JAFZ and observe their production, transport, storage, use and disposal related issues of chemicals.
The GC/GMEF delegation visited EMALAB, SASOL Dubai, Reichhold Chemicals and other chemical manufacturing companies of JAFZ. The delegation members showed their keen interest and were very pleased to observe three chemical industries operations in JAFZ, which comply with strict regulations of Jafza and PCFC.
"PCFC has a dedicated EHS business unit which supervises local industrial Free Zone companies as well as port operations from the EHS point of view. It has been implementing its own environmental rules and requirements and health & safety regulations since 1990. It has adopted a policy of source control in which operations are conducted in an environmentally sound manner," said Ahmed Hussain, CEO of EHS.
New major projects are required to submit detailed Environmental Impact assessment (EIA)/ RA studies for pollution prevention, efficient use of energy, modern technology use, materials recycling and re-use and recovery (RRR) options to be used by clients. All necessary measures are in place to ensure sustainable development.
"Environmental Management is an important part of control, which is fully recognized and implemented by PCFC, which has been certified for EMS ISO-14001 Certification and we urge all our Free Zone clients to achieve the same," added Hussain.
There are currently 24 companies within Jafza who have been certified for EMS ISO 14001 Certification. Many others are currently in the process of achieving the same as PCFC encourages and assists all clients to achieve this certification.
The ninth special session of the Governing Council /Global Ministerial Environment Forum of the United Nations Environment Programme was held in Dubai from February 4th to 9th, 2006. This GC/GMEF event was coordinated by FEA and held under the patronage of Zayed International Prize for the Environment.
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