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Management System
Our global Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) management system is certified to the international standards ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. This covers all of our manufacturing sites.
Sites are classified according to floorspace, headcount, type of operation and risk using a calculation tool. Sites with the higher scores are classified as Class I sites and are certified to ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance (LRQA):
Oversight of our EHS management system is provided by our corporate vice president, strategic services and risk management. Our EHS professionals around the world implement programs at the site level to comply with the EHS management system. They are supported by corporate policies, procedures, checklists and other resources, as well as location-specific internal websites.
We require that our tier-one suppliers also have an environmental management system in accordance with ISO 14001 or an equivalent standard. We monitor compliance with this requirement through our supplier assessment program.
Green Building Strategy
In 2009, we conducted a gap analysis to assess operations across our facility portfolio against the LEED-Existing Buildings Operations & Maintenance (LEED-EB) standards, which cover the following areas:
- Sustainable site development
- Sustainable purchasing
- Water efficiency
- Energy and atmosphere
- Materials and resources
- Indoor environmental quality
- Innovation in operations
The analysis revealed that operations at our facilities already meet many of the LEED-EB standards. In 2010, our EHS team continued to develop the Green Buildings Strategy to further embed environmental responsibility into our operations. The team integrated LEED-EB standards into green procurement and cleaning guidelines. These guidelines enable targets to be set for our sites to purchase environmentally preferable paper and office products, IT equipment, furniture, lighting, and janitorial and cleaning supplies, and enable us to maintain sites while protecting human health and the environment.
The criteria outlined in these guidelines include specifications for energy efficiency, hazardous material content, recycled content, product reuse, and sustainable manufacturing (as defined by green product certifications, such as Energy Star, Green Seal, Environmental Choice and the Forest Stewardship Council).
The Green Buildings Strategy guidelines build on green procurement practices already in place. For example we operate a global reuse and recycling program for electronics and furniture and almost 60 percent of cleaning products purchased in the U.S. meet sustainability criteria.