Global Compact CoP

Human rights

Principle 1:
Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights.

• Incorporated human rights and modern slavery into our “EHS StartUp!” training for new EHS managers
• Offered e-learning courses on our Human Rights Charter and Social and Labor Standards Policy, targeted to all managing directors and senior leaders reporting directly to the Executive Board
• Conducted webinars within the scope of the Security Academy meetings on human rights and modern slavery
• Formalized review process to ensure fulfillment of safety-relevant human rights aspects at our sites through security audits
• Participated in “TfS Talks” by sharing our conflict minerals approach
• Adopted and published the Code of Digital Ethics
• Offered a free-of-charge and anonymous whistleblowing channel, our compliance hotline, to report potential human rights violations

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Principle 2:
Businesses should make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.

• Supported the development of a training platform concept on sustainability management within the scope of our TfS membership
• Conducted internal and external audits of suppliers on sustainability topics and collected self-reported information
• Chaired the Responsible Mica Initiative

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Labor standards

Principle 3:
Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.

• Conducted internal audits on workplace matters covered in our Human Rights Charter, which are specified in more detail in our Social and Labor Standards Policy
• Regularly included local employee representatives in company decision-making
• Formalized review process to ensure fulfillment of safety-relevant human rights aspects at the sites through security audits

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Principle 5:
Businesses should support the effective abolition of child labor.

• Conducted internal audits on workplace matters covered in our Human Rights Charter, which are specified in more detail in our Social and Labor Standards Policy
• Chaired the Responsible Mica Initiative
• Conducted internal and external audits of suppliers on sustainability topics and collected self-reported information

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Principle 6:
Businesses should support the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.

• Refocused our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) strategy on the following priority areas: gender parity, culture and ethnicity as well as inclusion
• Defined new DE&I targets for 2030: Achieve gender parity in leadership positions (2021: 36%); increase the proportion of colleagues in U.S. leadership teams who are members of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups (2021: 21%); increase the global share of nationals from Asia, Latin America, and MEA in leadership positions to 30% (2021: 16%)
• Conducted a pay equity analysis
• Joined the UN Target Gender Equality Programme
• >Integrated the inclusion concept into our Human Resources programs and processes
• Launched a tool to support the use of gender-neutral language in job advertisements
• Ran a pilot project in the United States: Increased bonuses for successful referrals of qualified diverse candidates.
• Offered trainings on unconscious bias Group-wide
• Fostered diverse talent through mentoring, sponsoring and talent programs
• Supported numerous local and global employee networks on diversity, equity & inclusion
• Collaborated with Disability:IN

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Principle 7:
Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges.

• Passed third-party ISO 14001:2015 audits at 13 sites
• Performed 51 internal EHS audits, with all audited sites being rated as “good” or “satisfactory”.
• Achieved a 9% reduction of our CO₂ emissions (Scope 1 and Scope 2) in comparison with the baseline year 2020 amid operating business growth, thereby contributing to our target to lower CO₂ emissions (Scope 1 and Scope 2) by 50% by 2030 compared with 2020.
• Sourced 30% of our purchased electricity from renewable energies (2020: 27%), thereby contributing to our target to cover 80% of our purchased electricity with renewables by 2030.
• Signed a renewable energy virtual power purchase agreement in the United States
• Applied to join the Science Based Targets Initiative
• Set new water management target: By 2025, lower the Water Intensity Score by 10% compared with the baseline year 2020.
• Expanded the central wastewater treatment plant at the Darmstadt site (expansion to include a fourth purification stage).
• Worked towards shrinking the environmental footprint of our waste by 5% by 2025, as measured by our waste scoring system, as compared with the baseline year 2016. In 2021, we achieved a 5.6% reduction (2020: 4.6%)
• Took measures to ensure product safety (for instance REACH, GHS), plant and process safety, and transport and warehouse safety (such as internal EHS audits)

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Principle 8:
Businesses should undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility.

• Introduced bulk packaging designs for a subset of our Durapore^® and Millipore Express^® filter cartridges
• Commercialized greener alternative products such as Cyrene™, our Stericup E filtration system and our microplastic-free functional filler RonaFlair
• Utilized reusable and recyclable packaging, which we also offer to our customers
• Offered sustainable mobility options to employees (such as “Jobticket” public transit passes and shared bicycles)
• Installed at our global headquarters an extensive electric vehicle charging infrastructure, part of which is available to our employees for their own personal use

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Anti-corruption

Principle 10:
Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.

• Revised our risk matrix with a focus on bribery and corruption risks
• Performed 84 internal audits on corruption-related risks
• Provided employee training courses on topics such as anti-corruption, anti-trust, data privacy and healthcare compliance.
• Expanded our training courses to comply with the Code of Conduct in healthcare-specific dilemma situations in all countries in which our Healthcare business sector operates and developed comparable training course for our Life Science and Electronics business sectors
• Developed our anti-money-laundering program further by conducting a risk analysis
• Offered a free-of-charge and anonymous whistleblowing channel (compliance hotline)
• Formed partnerships and engaged stakeholders to coordinate and enhance anti-corruption efforts
• Published annual EFPIA transparency reports

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