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AMN Healthcare donations and charitable sponsorships support nonprofits focused on health and human services; women and children; diversity, equality, and inclusion initiatives; economic and community development; and civic engagement.
These areas are animal rights, occupational health and safety and finally pharmaceutical ethics.
Zealand’s culture and policy is rooted in a philosophy respectful of diversity and as such is fully compliant with Danish regulation regarding equal opportunity employment and equal remuneration for men and women.
Danish law stipulates yearly inspections of the animal facilities, as well as comprehensive reporting protocols overseeing experiments conducted during the year, processed through the governmental agency Dyreforsøgstilsynet.
On top of its legal requirements, Zealand conducts voluntarily monthly veterinarian inspections of its animal facilities.
In company of Zealand’s size and type, but the company fared less well in terms of energy use.
Year round, but particularly during the winter, the incoming air must be climate controlled—filtered and heated—while the outgoing air is released as an emission.
Indirectly, this investment will contribute reduced energy expenditure, fuel use, and emission generation.
promoting and protecting human rights and the environment.
any materials used in our products originated in the DRC or an adjoining country or were from recycled or scrap sources.
incorporate sustainable packaging considerations early in the design process, balancing environmental concerns with the need to protect product quality and transport products efficiently and economically.
As in previous years, we continue to rigorously track and report metrics related to waste, utilities and regulatory activity in all owned facilities and buildings within our purview of responsibility.
MANAGING WASTE Avanos has worked diligently to be 94% landfill-free of manufacturing waste.
of our products are single use, we have made waste management a key priority.
Our measurements track Scope emissions from vehicles, which are owned and controlled by Avanos.
for manufacturing water use, tracking it to its discharge destination.
Bureau Veritas conducted the assurance/verification against its standard procedures and guidelines for external verification of sustainability reports, based on current best practice in independent assurance, according to the following symbols: For the Environment, Health and Safety-related sections of this Priorities ...
Other changes in our industry, coupled with an ongoing global economic crisis, also are contributing to a challenging environment for Baxter, encouraging us to intensify our focus on ways to become even more innovative, productive and efficient.
depletion, political unrest, financial instability and insufficient access to quality healthcare and education are not problems that are solved overnight.
Reducing natural resource use, for example, conserves precious resources for the future and decreases operational costs.
Decreased water usage by and 29% indexed to revenue compared to 2005.
Decreased net greenhouse gas emissions from operations by indexed to revenue compared to 2005.
office building of its size due to green-building design elements such as natural lighting, roof-top solar panels and other innovative features.
• Reduce energy usage 30% indexed to revenue from 2005 baseline.
• Reduce water usage 35% indexed to revenue from 2005 baseline.
• Implement two projects to help protect vulnerable watersheds or provide communities with enhanced access to clean water.
r e l a t e D c o n t e n t Shelley Raymond is an Environment, Health and Safety manager at Baxter’s manufacturing facility in Alliston, Ontario, Canada.
Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus and other minority associations to raise awareness of Medicare’s new benefit for education on end-stage renal disease, a condition that disproportionately impacts African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans.
supplier diversity information to the supplier agreement summary sheets approved by senior management.
that Baxter planted during the last five years to offset emissions associated with the site’s activities.
A significant amount of Baxter’s broader environmental impacts occur within its supply chain.
For example, an estimated footprint is represented by its suppliers.
Baxter concentrates its efforts to green its supply chain on minimizing transportation-related emissions, procuring raw materials and other goods and services with reduced environmental impacts, and helping suppliers improve their environmental performance.
priority progress reduce the carbon footprint of Baxter’s u.s. car fleet by 20% from 2007 baseline.
Baxter is in the process of replacing the majority of its fleet from six-cylinder to more fuel-efficient four-cylinder vehicles by 2012.
Baxter is also working to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its car fleets in other countries.
This will save an estimated 400 metric tons of CO2e emissions a year.
incorporate green principles into Baxter’s purchasing program with its top 100 suppliers (by spend).
It includes an initiative to procure products and services that help the company reduce its environmental impact while maintaining continuity of supply and managing costs.
decrease energy use, GHG emissions and water consumption.
Baxter considers a supplier green if the supplier has programs in at least 90% of the criteria surveyed.
By learning more about suppliers’ environmental performance, Baxter can identify opportunities to collaborate for improvement.
In to recognize Baxter employees and suppliers for environmental initiatives.
Baxter continually explores options to reduce fuel use and GHG emissions from product transport, such as with these double-decker trucks with enhanced aerodynamic features used in Baxter’s European facilities.
Baxter’s strategies to reduce emissions from operations include energy conservation, energy-efficient technologies, renewable energy, new high-performance facilities and the use of carbon credits and offsets.
Energy use represents emissions-reduction program (see page 13 for detail).
Green buildings provide many benefits that enhance employee productivity and reduce operating expense.
European headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, includes natural lighting, water-based cooling and heating, and roof-top solar panels.
The company has incorporated green-building design principles at several other sites worldwide.
Baxter complements these efforts with the purchase of electricity generated from renewable power, carbon credits and carbon offsets.
since 2003 (as a founding member) and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme since 2005.
increase facility energy usage of renewable power to 20% (of total).
update In 2009, 17% of Baxter facilities’ energy use was from renewable energy sources, unchanged from 2008.
This includes electricity generated by certified renewable power purchased specifically by Baxter (utilities serving Baxter sites (5.1%)4, and energy from the use of a wood-fired boiler at one of Baxter’s locations (7.6%).5 The installation of onsite renewable energy projects continues to be a challenge for Baxter.
This is primarily due to relatively low project paybacks, even though the company has reduced its minimum required internal rate of return for energy projects.
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar 2 Baxter’s principal GHG emissions reduction goal applies to its operations, including emissions associated with facility energy use (both from fuel burned on site and purchased electricity), company-managed sales and distribution fleet vehicles, other vehicles and refrigeran...
Net emissions from operations also take into account the purchase of renewable energy, carbon credits and carbon offsets.
Baxter includes these emissions in its overall GHG emissions footprint.
(e.g. CO2) or in progress against its 2015 GHG emissions reduction goal.
“Baxter Energy Usage and Greenhouse Gas Emissions” in the comprehensive report online.
This also improves the company’s environmental performance and enhances its competitive advantage.
Lorenzo Hutson (left) and Michael Bellomo of Baxter’s plasma-fractionation facility in Los Angeles, California, United States, assess the plant’s new wastewater treatment facility, completed in more onlIne } sustainability.baxter.com/EHS progress 2015 goal reduce total waste generation 30% indexed to revenue from 2005 ...
Its main source of regulated waste is biological and human blood-derived plasma wastes from plasma donor activities and plasma processing (54% of the total).
across the company, facilities that produce the most waste, and sites with particularly strong potential to improve.
Recent projects in the United States and Puerto Rico have reduced packaging waste by more than metric tons.
Baxter’s plasma-related waste rose during the past year due to increased plasma collection and processing.
reduce energy usage 30% indexed to revenue from 2005 baseline.
update Baxter’s primary energy uses in its facilities are electricity to power lighting, critical systems and manufacturing equipment (the total), and fuels to generate steam for heat, water purification and product sterilization (59%).
The company used joules of energy in its facilities in 2009, 21% less than in 2005, indexed to revenue, and an absolute increase of 1%.
Baxter’s main focus is increasing energy efficiency in manufacturing.
The company conducts energy balances2 at major sites.
Based on energy and water invoices, electrical readings and fuel use data, the company identifies and prioritizes energy conservation opportunities.
Baxter also uses innovative technologies to decrease energy use.
tons of corrugated cardboard consumption, exceeding the interim target of 800 metric tons.
reduce water usage 35% indexed to revenue from 2005 baseline.
In 2009, the company used 13.4 million cubic meters of water, 29% less than in 2005, indexed to revenue.
Absolute water use decreased for the fourth consecutive year.
Baxter conducts water balances2 at high-volume sites to identify reduction opportunities.
For example, Baxter’s site in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States, decreased water system flushing, reduced water filter backwash frequencies and recycled water treatment system waste streams.
See the comprehensive report online for detailed information about water and wastewater.
implement two projects to help protect vulnerable watersheds or provide communities with enhanced access to clean water.
aquifer protection or access to clean water projects.
The company plans to collaborate with Water Advocates, a non-governmental organization (NGO) that connects companies with NGOs and other organizations that have a local presence and focus on water issues.
cubic meters of annual renewable water supply per person per year.
Water-stressed areas have more than 1,000 cubic meters but less than 1,700 cubic meters.
priority Baxter is dedicated to creating products that save and sustain people’s lives worldwide, in a way that minimizes environmental impacts.
establish product requirements and minimize potential health and environmental impacts.
Baxter also is working with other partners in waste management and recycling to test the economic and logistical feasibility of more efficient management of wastes generated from Baxter IV products.
Possibilities include creating products from recycled materials that can be reused in the medical supply chain, such as plastic pallets made from mixed plastic IV bags or packaging. identify new opportunities to replace, reduce and refine (3rs) the use of animal testing.
The committee, composed of veterinary professionals from the company’s research and development organization, oversees all aspects of Baxter’s animal use programs.
The committee’s focus includes the following: further developing and implementing programs that will optimize animal welfare and adhere to Baxter’s animal research sites and external collaborators; providing regular review of Baxter’s animal welfare program, policies, standards and best practices and updates to interna...
learn more about Baxter’s initiatives and innovations that support the company’s animal welfare efforts in the comprehensive report online.
5Net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Baxter operations include emissions associated with facility energy use (both from fuel burned on site and purchased electricity), company-managed sales and distribution fleet vehicles, other vehicles and refrigerant losses.
An independent entity engaged by the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) verified Baxter’s direct GHG emissions from operations in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the United States.
A consultant for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Leaders program reviewed Baxter’s direct and indirect GHG emissions from operations in the United States and Puerto Rico.
Environmental, health • and safety data include joint ventures where Baxter has a controlling interest.
These factors include actions of regulatory bodies and other governmental authorities including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; the effect of economic conditions; technological developments in the healthcare field; advances in environmental protection processes; and other factors more completely described in Bax...
This report was printed using solvent-free UV inks on paper that was processed chlorine free, manufactured using biogas energy, made from forest management standards of the Forest Stewardship Council.
The electricity used to print this report was energy credits (RECs) generated from wind power in the United States.
this process identified the following areas of focus: addressing patients’ needs, managing our impact on the markets and economies in which we operate, promoting good business ethics, supporting our local communities and minimising our environmental impact.