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About Our Environmental Practices
“The environment is the ultimate human health issue.” As the world’s largest health
care company, Johnson & Johnson recognizes the critical interdependence between
human health and the health of our planet. As a multi-national organization, our
environmental impacts are far-reaching. We maintain an Environmental Policy
and corporate standards (see our website) that guide our operating companies.
We are committed to environmental excellence, instilling environmental
awareness in our employees, utilizing good environmental practices in our products
and processes and contributing to global sustainable development. Highlights of
our environmental programs and performance against our Healthy Planet 2010
goals follow, in alphabetical order by topic.
ACCOUNTABILITY
In keeping with our decentralized organization,
primary accountability for environmental
rests with each franchise Group
Operating Committee. Environmental
performance across the enterprise is supported
by Company senior management
and discussed, along with compliance
and emerging environmental issues,
annually with the Public Policy Advisory
Committee of the Board of Directors.
AWARENESS
We have a Healthy Planet 2010 goal to
conduct annual environmental literacy
campaigns throughout our operating
companies. We believe increased
knowledge about global environmental
challenges inspires our employees to
make choices and take actions that are
good for the environment. This benefits
Johnson & Johnson. We have been
implementing environmental improvement
projects for over 15 years. As such,
the ‘easy’ opportunities to reduce our
impacts are long gone. We need the
engagement and ideas of all of our
employees to suggest workable, new
improvements. During 2007, 92 percent
of our facilities deployed a literacy campaign.
More than 60 percent focused on
climate change. Educational materials
and approaches included posters, webconferencing,
newsletter articles, e-learning
modules, brochures, an email from
our CEO and some materials specifically
created for the children of our employees.
BIODIVERSITY
We have a goal to enhance biodiversity
conservation in areas over which we have
control or influence. Through the development
and implementation of written
biodiversity conservation plans, our
operating companies are taking multiple
approaches to meet the spirit of this
commitment. As of the end of 2007,
approximately 95 percent of our operating
companies have a biodiversity plan
that is endorsed by leadership. More than
50 conservation projects are underway
around the world; 55 percent of these
projects are to improve the biodiversity
on our own work campuses; the remainder
are offsite projects. Many of our operating
companies have joined together with
external partners, governmental or
non-governmental organizations, to
conserve or enhance biodiversity.
Projects include environmental cleanups,
reforestation, protection of endangered
species, aquifer protection, and habitat
restoration.
In the Asia-Pacific region, a number
of our companies joined together to
become part of widespread efforts to
reforest the Inner Mongolia desert. Years
of overgrazing in the region have fueled
massive, damaging dust storms that now
blow across China.
COMPLIANCE AND ASSURANCE
Regulatory compliance is the minimum
expectation for Johnson & Johnson operating
facilities. We monitor compliance
through an assessment program that has
four elements: annual self-assessment,
third-party joint assessment on a
risk-based interval, action planning, and
corrective action tracking. Management
action plans are reviewed by senior
Accidental
Releases
Number of events
9 9 9*
05 06 07
*Two were spills
of diesel oil to soil,
totalling 8,000 liters;
three were releases
to air totalling
1,050 kilograms of
refrigerants and
350 kilograms of
volatile organic
compounds. The
remaining were minor
releases to the
sanitary sewer.
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