ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND SAFETY

Environmental Policy

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Owl’s Head Alloy's Environmental Policy is to protect, utilize, and manage our natural resources to prevent pollution and continually improve the air, water, and earth we inhabit. Owl’s Head Alloys maintains a commitment to fulfill all compliance obligations. The company’s main goal is to provide excellent customer service while ensuring we take the correct measures from an environmental standpoint. Our environmental policy highlights the framework, procedures, and efficiency given out by the company to ensure we are providing safety to the community, employees, and the environment. Owl’s Head is mindful of the impact that is done through our daily operations and has made sure procedures are implemented to find solutions.

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This will be supported by state-of-the-art facilities and equipment, well-defined processes, and excellent training programs. The management will adopt a culture that fosters integrity, a sense of responsibility, and continual improvement through compliance with the ISO 14001 standard for Environmental Management System.

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Promoting the Health and Well Being of the Environment

 

OHA understands the critical importance of minimizing the impacts and of maximizing the opportunities related to the environment through the processes and operations required to produce our products. Since our inception, our team has worked to meet and exceed environmental regulations to prevent and minimize adverse environmental impacts by:

 

• Using over-sized hoods for the capture of emissions

• Using separate bag houses for each furnace

• Reducing waste emissions and discharges from operations

• Improving the efficiency of our natural resource consumption

 

The secondary aluminum market continues to thrive today largely because of the energy savings in the secondary market versus the primary.  The energy required to melt and recover aluminum from scrap and dross is only 5% of that required to produce aluminum from bauxite ore. This 95% energy savings greatly lowers the overall impact of the industry’s operations on the environment.

 

 

MATERIALS

 

Aluminum

 

Owl’s Head Alloys participates in the processing and recycling of almost every grade of scrap aluminum, including traditional sorting, baling, or shearing activities. 

 

In each area, sophisticated identification, segregation, and manufacturing procedures ensure product quality and consistency.

 

Additional Materials Include:

 

• Extrusion scrap

• Mixed low copper clips

• Lithograph sheet

• Segregated alloy clips

• New production can scrap (Class 1/2/3/4)

• Used beverage containers

• Auto wheels

• Painted siding

• Aluminum radiators

• Fin stock

• Remelt scrap ingot

• Old sheet

• Casting scrap

• Aluminum turnings

• Aluminum drosses

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Occupational Health and Safety Policy

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Owl’s Head Alloy's Occupational Health and Safety Policy is to prevent injury and ill health to our workforce and to continually improve the performance of the OH&S management system while complying with applicable legal and other requirements. All supervisors are responsible for ensuring that their employees are trained in approved work procedures to obtain optimal output without accidents and injuries and to ensure that employees follow safe work methods and related regulations.