Version 00 Date: Quality and Environment; continued Improvement Managementhandbook 01 – Chapter 07 Page 1 of 4 Quality and environmental Policy Quality and environmental policy represent the framework of TIGER Coatings, Environmental policy represent the framework of TIGER Coatings, to which the Actions of all coworkers can align. Enterprise policy To guarantee our attractiveness at the market and to offer our customers the maximal use, the factors quality, time and costs, have priority in the whole enterprise. In the sense of our collective and social responsibility security, health and environmental protection as well as right conformity represent substantial constituents of our managerial policy and are merged in the functions and responsibility of our management. We, as an innovative enterprise, practice in accordance with the best techniques, highly taking into consideration the economic aspects. For the conversion of the enterprise example we formulate our quality and environmental policy after the following principles. The continuous improvement as part of our business philosophy! The quality understanding of TIGER Coatings covers the environmental protection thought as equivalent quality component. Version 00 Date: Quality and Environment; continued Improvement Managementhandbook 01 – Chapter 07 Page 2 of 4 In order to reach a constant and systematic increase of our enterprise quality we pursue an effective and economic management system. We do not only question the requirement for environmentally conscious concerning ourselves, but we obligate our suppliers and contracting parties in the context of possibilities to the adherence of our environmental standards. By a systematic set of rules and regular examinations we guarantee the adherence of the relevant legal- as well as official regulations. We sensitize and strengthen our coworkers to direct responsibility and self initiative! By own attention, conscious involvement and careful concerning each co-worker helps to avoid errors as well as to detect and eliminate the causes of errors as early as possible. To see to it that our coworkers will be able to meet the demands in this request, we provide a continuous- and further training as well as an adequate information- and communication organization. Apart from the promotion of the quality and environmental awareness of our co- worker, the optimization of the work surrounding field is a substantial function of our leadership level. Co-ordinated procedures as base of the conversion! All procedures are aligned under the aspects quality, environmental compatibility and security to the production and supply of our products. In TIGER Coatings all coworkers do agree with written procedures which are required and monitored by the management system. Version 00 Date: Quality and Environment; continued Improvement Managementhandbook 01 – Chapter 07 Page 3 of 4 We feel committed to economical handling natural resources! We evaluate and monitor the impact of our activities on the environment and check in advance the possible influences of new products and procedures on the environment. Already by and during the selection, development and optimization of our manufacturing methods and materials, we want to contribute to the reduction of environmental impacts such as energy consumption, waste arising, emissions in air, water and soil. We use and promote the dialog with the public! We inform and communicate openly and constructively with customers, coworkers and all interested ones over the status of our operational environmental protection. Beyond that we emphasize a close co-operation with the authorities and to bring in our know-how actively. Competencies The responsibility for conversion and validity as well as information of the QE politics the management is incumbent in co-operation with the assigned ones. Continuous Improvement By the annual specification of QE targets the TIGER Coatings concretizes its obligation for the constant improvement of the enterprise performance and starts up thus a dynamic development process. Version 00 Date: Quality and Environment; continued Improvement Managementhandbook 01 – Chapter 07 Page 4 of 4 Constant improvement Appropriate targets of the management for all quality and environmental relevant areas and enterprise levels are to be determined in co-operation with the assigned ones For the conversion of the individual targets measures are to be compiled as projects, which are assigned in agreement with the QE politics and to those responsibilities and periods. QE- targets and -program form consequently a unit. Evaluation The management executes a progress control of the measures with the help of annually executed management reviews for goal achievement. The results and the consequences or corrective measures derived from it are conveyed to the departments concerned and their conversion is carried forward. Competencies Competencies of Q/E targets and program are determined in co-operation with the assigned ones by the management, just as the dispatching of necessary resources. The responsibility for the conversion of the individual measures and projects is fixed In the program itself. . Date: Quality and Environment; continued Improvement Managementhandbook 01 – Chapter 07 Page 1 of 4 Quality and environmental Policy Quality and environmental. our quality and environmental policy after the following principles. The continuous improvement as part of our business philosophy! The quality understanding