Air Liquide, best in class for its Sustainable Development approach

今年再次，Air Liquide被挪威可持续发展投资者StoreBrand确定为一流的公司，并在化学品行业中排名第四。

StoreBrand排名是基于空中液化的金融，社会和环境表演，这具有长期存在承诺可持续发展. The Group has been successful in maintaining its ranking by seeking continuous improvement in its performances in the areas of social and environmental responsibility.

作为其承诺的证据，Air Liquide已经设定了八个“可持续发展”目标，并确定了一系列精确指标，用于评估其在该地区的表现。该数据每年在可持续发展报告中公布，并衡量本集团所作的努力和进展。

In 2009, the Group improved its score for several of these indicators:

• 更多多样性: the percentage of women among its engineers and managers is up to 24%, equal to the global proportion of women in the Group: this represents an increase of +70% since 2003.
• 员工完成的记录水平正式表现审查：73％。
• 工作场所事故频率率是集团历史中最少的。
• 创新, always at the heart of the Air Liquide strategy: the objective of 500 new patents worldwide between 2005 and 2009 was surpasses, with a total of 648 patents filed over the period.

该集团自2008年以来一直举例说明了对社会和社会的承诺the Air Liquide Foundation, which supports research projects in the area of Health and the Environment and contributes to the local development of countries in which the Group operates: to date, a total of 38 projects have received support, including 32 micro-initiatives in 16 countries!

本集团通过维护生命和环境的申请获得其收入的36％，并将60％的研发投资分配给这些地区。