Health and Safety Approach
Baxter promotes a culture that values the health, safety and well-being of its employees so they return home each day at least as safe and healthy as when they came to work.
The company uses a risk-based approach that identifies, evaluates and prioritizes hazards, and acts to correct and prevent them. All employees are accountable for safety.
Health and Safety Program Management
Baxter's occupational health, safety and industrial hygiene functions sponsor teams composed of regional, site and business-unit environment, health and safety (EHS) professionals from around the world that provide guidance to the company and establish, maintain and continually improve global programs. These functional teams are represented on Baxter’s EHS Leadership Team, composed of EHS directors and other leaders who set overall EHS strategy, policy (global EHS requirements) and EHS goals for the company.
The functional teams use input from their members to set priorities and determine key initiatives. This process ensures alignment and commitment throughout the global EHS organization to promote program success. Read more about Health and Safety Programs and Initiatives.
Each year the functional teams undertake a strategic planning process to determine short-term targets and long-term goals and to assess resources required to meet those goals. This includes analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in each functional area. The teams then develop tactical plans and targets for the year.
The functions track performance against their annual targets and report it to the global EHS organization and to Baxter upper management on a monthly basis.
