Environmental News, 72 – The Working Environment in LCA - A New Approach

The Working Environment in LCA

Explantory notes

Note 1: Calculated for 1995-1997 on the basis of information in “Denmarks oil and gas production 1997”. Energistyrelsen, 1998.

Note 2: This is a total number of accidents and diseases for both raw materials production (oil, gas and coal), and for the production and distribution of electricity. The number of diseases is underestimated because no diseases are reported for coal production.

Note 3: Calculated by using figures for Swedish steel production (average 1994 to 1996). Only data for accidents have been integrated.

Note 4: Calculated by use of information from WMC (1996 or an average of 1996-1997). WWW-address:http://www.wmc.com.au/

Note 5: The basic chemicals are made in the sectors 241300

“Manufacturing of other inorganic chemicals” and 241400 “Manufacturing of other organic chemicals”.

Note 6: Notice the difference in level of detail in the DB93/NACE-codes (3-, 4-, 5-digit level). It is recommended that the highest level of detail is used.

Note 7: The goods statistics cannot be used for this sector because of differences in the collected information.

Note 8: Average figures for national and international transport with Danish carriers, because the accidents are reported for both national and international haulage.

Note 9: Notice, that in transport by ship accidents and diseases are reported per ton and not per ton-kilometer. The numbers also includes impacts from passenger transportation as most ships carry goods one way or the other. The amount of goods transported include transportation on Danish as well as foreign ships and the figures are therefore underestimated, because only the impacts on Danish ships are used in the calculations.

Note 10: For 1996 no diseases are reported. The average is therefore calculated for two years.

1 “EDIP97” is in the present report a common denominator for the methodology descriptions that can be found in Hauschild (ed.): Baggrund for Miljøvurdering af produkter, Miljøstyrelsen/Dansk Industri 1996, (English version: Hauschild and Wenzel: Environmental Assessment of products. Volume 2: Scientific background. Chapman & Hall, 1997), Wenzel, Hauschild and Rasmussen: Miljøvurdering af produkter, Miljøstyrelsen/Dansk Industri 1996, and in Broberg og Rasmussen: Arbejdsmiljø fra vugge til grav, Arbejdsmiljøfondet 1996.