Environment, Health & Safety

Essential to this commitment is a focus on pollution prevention, compliance with all environmental laws and regulations, and environmental sustainability while taking a life-cycle view.

AGC Biologics believes that it has an important obligation to all company stakeholders as well as the local communities in which it operates to ensure excellence in environmental performance. This is accomplished through the establishment of an environmental management system that:

• Effectively plans for pollution prevention and reduction.

• Establishes objectives and targets designed to demonstrate leadership in environmental management.

• Ensures the responsible use of energy across the organization through conservation, efficiency, and preference of renewable over non-renewable sources where feasible.

• Minimizes waste and utilizes viable alternative recycling approaches to conserve natural resources.

• Utilizes robust procedures, training, self-assessments, regular management review, and monitoring systems to ensure conformance with existing and future regulations.

• Maintains effective internal and external communications to foster awareness of the environmental policy and to facilitate prompt response to environmental inquiries or concerns.

As an organization, we are committed to achieving the highest performance in occupational health and safety throughout our business. We seek to establish and maintain a safe work culture through employee involvement and participation in the safety process. We comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and standards. We adopt and apply standards that reflect the company’s commitment to best practices.

AGC Biologics believes that it has an important obligation to maintain a safe and healthy environment for its employees, visitors, and contractors. This is accomplished through the establishment of an occupational health and safety management system that:

• Establishes objectives that demonstrate leadership in occupational health and safety management.

• Measures the results and effectiveness of safety efforts for continual improvement.

• Provides for active employee participation and engagement in the safety process.

• Considers the impact of both physical as well psychological factors within the work environment in the health and safety planning process.

• Provides for the protection of employees through safe workplace and equipment design, engineering controls and procedures, training, and personal protective equipment.

• Implements preventive actions to ensure that identified hazards and workplace risks are monitored and continuously reduced.

• Registers and takes appropriate action on reported near-misses to avoid injury.

• Provides for treatment and rehabilitation of injured or ill employees through emergency and post-injury management.

• Maintains effective communications to foster awareness of this policy and to facilitate prompt response to any inquiries or concerns.

Essential to this commitment is a focus on continually reducing energy consumption including CO₂ emissions.

AGC Biologics believes that it has an important obligation to all company stakeholders as well as the community in which it operates to ensure excellence in energy- and climate performance.

This is accomplished through our energy management system that ensures:

• Effective plans for energy efficiency and continuous improvements.

• Objectives and targets designed to demonstrate leadership in energy management.

• Responsible use of energy across the organization through conservation, efficiency, and preference of renewable over non-renewable sources where feasible.

• Purchase of energy-efficient equipment and energy-efficient design of changes of process and/or facility.

• Comply with regulatory requirements as well as any other requirements to which AGC Biologics subscribes, concerning energy use, consumption and efficiency.

• Cooperation with customers, suppliers, and authorities in energy-related issues.