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EHS management

Environment, health and safety (EHS) issues are managed through an integrated system that aims to ensure issues and risks are identified, standards are established, training is provided, targets set and audits conducted.

We have a clearly defined EHS management structure. Overall responsibility for EHS issues rests with the Corporate Executive Team and the Board. The Board champion for EHS is JP Garnier, the Chief Executive Officer. We also have a Corporate Responsibility Committee and Corporate EHS department. See more on our EHS management organisation.

Our EHS Policy, EHS Vision and 64 Global EHS Standards set the overall framework for managing EHS issues. Our EHS Plan for Excellence sets out our strategy for improving our environmental performance up to 2010. See more on our EHS management system.

In 2004, four sites achieved dual certification to the international environmental management standard ISO 14001 and the international health and safety standard OHSAS 18001 for the first time. One site did not renew its certification in 2004 and one site certified only the utilities area. This means that 14 out of 84 pharmaceutical and consumer manufacturing sites are now certified to both ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001, and seven sites are certified to ISO 14001 only. We are working to increase site certification and expect to have around a third of our sites certified by the end of 2005, which would put us in a position to move towards global certification.

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