Responsible Care

Union Tank Car Company participates in Responsible Care® as a Partner. Partner companies must implement a Responsible Care Management System® (RCMS) to meet the same obligations as member companies. In doing so, Partner companies enhance their product stewardship and outreach activities throughout the supply and distribution chain.

The Partnership Program is open to companies that have direct and substantial involvement in the manufacture, use, formulation, distribution, transportation, storage, treatment-disposal and/or sales and marketing of chemicals.

The UTLX Management System consists of the following five (5) technical specifications.

The UTLX RCMS is composed of five basic components. These components are designed much like a quality management system with the ultimate goal of continual improvement. The first and most important of all these components is management's commitment to becoming a Responsible Care® Partner.

The remaining four components complete the continual improvement cycle of Planning, Implementing (Do), Measuring (Check), and Review (Act).

UTLX cares about what our customers need and want. UTLX cares about what our neighbors think about our operations. UTLX cares about our role in assisting customers in the safe transportation of the products and materials they manufacture. UTLX cares about providing a safe work place for our employees. UTLX cares about having a positive impact on the environment.

UTLX manufactures railroad tank cars for sale and lease, and provides services to repair and maintain railroad tank cars and hopper cars. Our goal is to maintain and grow our position as the industry's leading builder and lessor of tank car and plastic hopper leasing services supported by outstanding design, manufacturing and maintenance capabilities.

UTLX will strive to reach the vision of no accidents, no injuries, and no harm to the environment from our on-going manufacturing and equipment repair operations. We will publicly report on our environmental, safety and health performance.

Community Outreach

Performance Measure

Number of community outreach events completed.

Measure Purpose

To document the extent and breadth of outreach efforts to key stakeholders including communities, regulatory agencies, and other groups impacted and served by the Equipment Supplier- Container Responsible Care® Partner and to demonstrate their commitment to meet the informational needs of all stakeholders.

The general public is concerned with the safety of containers used for chemical transportation traveling in their communities. To meet the need for open and honest dialogue with these groups all equipment Supplier- Container Responsible Care® Partner companies participate in emergency response drills and exercises, customer/shipper product safety training, and community outreach programs to emphasize safety, security, and environmental protection.

UNION TANK

Community Outreach events - 2006 - 38; 2005 - 13

Employee Safety

Performance Measure

OSHA Total Recordable Case Rate for Employees and Contractors

Measure Purpose

To help track and identify workplace problems and/or progress made in preventing work-related injuries and illnesses.

Incidence rates are used to evaluate a company's injury and illness experience over time to compare the company's experience with that of the industry as a whole. This incidence rate is the number of recordable injuries and illnesses including deaths, days away from work, restrictions, and other recordable cases occurring for each 100 full-time employees per year, based on 2,000 hours worked per employee per year.

This measure will provide ACC members, Responsible Care® Partners and other interested parties with annual information on employee health and safety performance.

UNION TANK

2005 - Recordable Incident Rate - 4.5
2006 - Recordable Incident Rate - 4.6

2005 - Days Away from Work Incident Rate - 1.5
2006 - Days Away from Work Incident Rate - 1.2

Product Failure Incident Rate

Performance Measure

Frequency rate of DOT Form 5800 regulated product release incidents (as reported to the DOT by end container user) divided by total number of single use containers produced plus repeat use containers currently in service.

Measure Purpose

This measure provides insight into the continuous improvements made by the container manufacturing or leasing company to ensure product integrity and quality and the industry sector as a whole to prevent accidents and chemical releases. The product failure frequency rate for each ES-CC would be expected to decrease as the ES-CC improves quality and implements design or production changes to address identified problems.

UNION TANK

2004 - 0.0002
2005 - 0.0001
2006 - 0.0000

Responsible Care® Certification

Responsible Care® Certification Status

The ES-CC company will report to ACC information regarding the completion of their Responsible Care® certification. This will include the date of the certification, location of the certification, type of certification, and third-party certification firm. The deadline for the first certification cycle is December 31, 2007.

Union Tank - Corporate Headquarters received its RCMS certification on June 11, 2007. We are currently working on obtaining certification for our manufacturing and repair sites as required. We anticipate receiving certification by Dec. 31, 2007.

Security

Security Code Implementation Status
The ES-CC company will report to ACC information regarding the implementation of the Responsible Care® Security Code. Reporting will be managed through the required submittal of Security Code Progress Reports.

Union Tank has fully implemented the Security Code.