Global Diversity and Inclusion
Employee safety

Bristol Myers Squibb is committed to protecting the environment and the health and safety of its employees, contractors, customers and the public by conducting business in a safe and environmentally sustainable manner. Safety is central to what we do and how we do it, in every part of our company and in every part of the world. Our vision is an injury-free workplace where all incidents are preventable. BMS establishes safety and industrial hygiene management systems to identify hazards and manage associated risks. Regardless of position or place within our organization, each person has responsibility for their safety and for those around them. Everyone has the authority and responsibility to stop and report any potentially unsafe activity, exposure or condition. Our sustainability goals support efforts to develop and deliver a global strategy to enhance safety performance and drive shared ownership of safety programs focused on compliance, training and continuous improvement.

In 2020, we expanded key programs across BMS and implemented them across our newly acquired sites. For example, we:

• Created management engagement measures for safety.
• Enhanced event trend analysis through continued integration of electronic event reporting.
• Launched a global ergonomic work-from-home program to proactively reduce ergonomic risk factors attributed to remote working due to the pandemic.
• Continued expansion of life saving rules (LSRs) and serious injury and fatality (SIF) prevention management programs.

Note: all data in this section are of year-end 2020 unless otherwise indicated.