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Contents
1 Objectives and introduction
2 A message from Matthew Emmens
4 Drug safety
12 Responsible marketing
18 Managing our products
24 Report from Angus Russell
26 CR Committee
27 Shire as a business
28 — People
34 — Environmental, health and safety performance
38 — Supply chain
40 — Role in the community
44 Shire trademarks
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Our Corporate Responsibility (CR) objectives
— Ensure we consistently live up to our values
— Promote workforce diversity
— Focus on leadership and management development for employees
— Ensure delivery of high-quality Human Resources (HR) support for the business
— Respect employees’ work/life balance
— Continuous improvement in the provision of a safe and healthy workplace for employees
— Develop global health and safety measures to allow us to set targets and assess performance
— Support patient education in key disease areas in accordance with local country or practice codes
— Provide medications on compassionate basis to those who cannot afford them where the country
or practice allows it
— Ensure marketing and selling practices are ethical and in line with local country regulatory guidelines
— Minimize animal use and ensure humane treatment and high standards of animal care
— Ensure all Shire sponsored trials are conducted under industry good practice standards and adhere to the
ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki
— Ensure highest standards of safety monitoring and reporting are applied for the protection of the subjects
and patients enrolled in clinical studies
— Ensure patients and subjects are informed about the principles and potential risks of the trials
— Maintain an appropriate level of involvement for Shire within the communities it operates in
— Collate information on the Company’s charitable actions and community initiatives annually
— Improve internal awareness about the Company’s activities in the community and share best practice
— Enhance employees’ opportunities to participate in community initiatives
— Remain in compliance with local, state and federal Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) regulations
— Integrate a single EH&S management system
— Meet or exceed the conditions for air emissions and wastewater discharge
— Reduce the employee incident rate
— Identify potential and means to improve office environmental practices
— Encourage suppliers to embrace CR standards similar to our own and work with them to share best practice
and help them improve if appropriate
— Require all contractors and sub-contractors to comply with Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) and Shire safety standards