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LAWRENCEVILLE, NEW JERSEY
WORLDWIDE MEDICINES

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Economic Development

The Lawrenceville facility contributes greatly to the financial well being of several of our local emergency services organizations by providing contributions for the purchase of rescue equipment, fitness equipment, computers for apparatus, and automatic defibrillators.

Community and Social Progress

Employee volunteering

Employees at the Lawrenceville facility have established a Green Team that focuses on 10 areas of recycling at the facility. The Green Team is an expansion of the facility's former waste minimization committee. As a result, in part, of the Green Team's efforts, over 10,000 employees at 12 sites participate in the annual Earth Day celebration, which includes poster contests for employee’s children and other events to promote saving the Earth.
Facility personnel participate in an environmental and waste management awareness program for students at the Granville Academy in Trenton, New Jersey.
Employees at Lawrenceville trained U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inspectors on issues associated with cogeneration facilities. In addition, employees conducted emergency response training for helicopter accidents and confined space entry with emergency response personnel from the community.
A facility employee is a board member of the Mercer County Community College Fire Science Curriculum Advisory Board and the Haz-Mat Coordinator for the Lawrence Township Emergency Planning Committee. In addition, he is a member of New Jersey Task Force One (NJ-TF1) Urban Search and Rescue Team and serves on several National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) committees.
Several people in the EHS staff are members or officers of local emergency response organizations as well as volunteers with the United Way and several other organizations within our local area.

Civic activities supported

The Lawrence-Hopewell Trail, a 20-mile biking and walking trail, will be constructed through corporate campuses and Mercer County Park Northwest, along existing streets, and through school grounds in Lawrence and Hopewell Townships as a result of a grass roots effort. Bristol-Myers Squibb has committed to cover the $1 million cost of constructing the trail through the Lawrenceville, Hopewell, and Princeton Pike sites. The proposed trail will link dozens of county businesses, schools, parks, recreational sites, and residential areas.
The Lawrenceville facility has hosted the New Jersey Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure each October for the past five years. The race benefits breast cancer research. Each year, more than 30,000 runners and friends attend the event, which has raised over $1 million annually.
The Lawrenceville facility has hosted the Tour de Cure each June for the past five years. This bicycle event was attended by over 2,000 people and benefits diabetes research through the American Diabetes Association by raising more than $400,000 each year.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company employees participated in the American Heart Association Heart Walk in September 2002, raising more than $40,000 – the most by any team in Mercer County. Over 300 walkers participated to support cardiac research and heart disease survivors.
The EHS function sponsors a highway clean-up campaign to benefit the local community. Mercer County officially designated a two-mile section of Carter Road, partially adjacent to the Lawrenceville facility, as the site's official clean-up area. Over 3,000 pounds of trash and other debris have been collected since the highway was “adopted” in 1999.
The facility established NFPA “Learn Not to Burn” curriculum into the on-site Child Development Center, which serves more than 175 children, to teach children key behaviors in avoiding fire hazards and preventing burns.
Annually, our Emergency Services Team assists neighboring fire companies and first aid squads with numerous requests for assistance in handling calls for medical and other emergencies.
The Lawrenceville print shop assists many local civic organizations with the printing of brochures and other documents. For example, Bristol-Myers Squibb prints the quarterly Delaware-Raritan Canal newsletter, which serves the local community.
The Lawrenceville facility sponsors three Lawrence Township Public School District teachers in the Teachers, Industry and the Environment (TIE) workshop.

Support to local emergency response organizations

The Emergency Services Team was instrumental in creating the Mercer County Technical Rescue Operations Team (TROT). TROT is comprised of approximately 35 volunteer firefighters from local fire departments, as well as members of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Lawrenceville Response Team. Its members are trained to respond to confined space emergencies, structural collapses, and trench collapses. Developing and supporting the team is much more cost-effective than contracting with a commercial rescue standby team. At the same time, Bristol-Myers Squibb has established a well-trained emergency team to serve the larger local community. In 2003, the team is credited with rescuing three construction workers trapped in a mixing drum 75 feet above the ground at a concrete plant in Upper Freehold, New Jersey, and with rescuing a construction worker from a confined space after being struck by a 300 pound grate, also in Upper Freehold.
Automatic external defibrillators (AED) have been donated to several police departments and fire companies as well as civic organizations. Our donated AEDs have been documented with saving the lives of local residents that suffered sudden cardiac arrest. For instance, in July 2004, one of our donated AEDs saved the life of a 53-year old father of five at Little League practice.
Our EHS function provides respiratory fit testing for local police and fire departments in an effort to improve the use of resources and emergency preparedness in local agencies.

Awards and recognition

2005 Governor's Awards received for Safety and Health Excellence.
On April 28, 2003, Lawrenceville received the Chemistry Industry Council of New Jersey (CCNJ) Chairman’s Award of Distinction. Bristol-Myers Squibb has made several pollution reductions through our charter membership in the U.S. EPA National Achievement Track Program. Through this program, we have voluntarily reduced energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, solid waste generation, and water use. For example, on a regional basis Bristol-Myers Squibb saved over 30 million gallons of water during the 2002 drought.
The Lawrenceville Fire Brigade responds with its ambulance into Lawrence Township to provide emergency medical services support to our neighbors. As a result, we have been recognized for excellence in corporate citizenship on several occasions.
Three members of our Fire Brigade were awarded the American Heart Association Heartsaver Award for a lifesaving rescue of an individual in cardiac arrest, which occurred in May 2001 at the Lawrenceville facility.
The Lawrenceville site is a participant in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Silver Track Program recognizing leaders in environmental stewardship in the state.

Environmental Performance

Bristol-Myers Squibb is the first private company in Mercer County to distribute Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) throughout its facilities. Fire brigade members are trained to respond and deliver life saving cardiac defibrillation without having to wait for paramedics. No employee is more than a one-minute response time from a defibrillator.
A Habitat Enhancement Group, comprised of employee volunteers and EHS staff, has been formed at the Lawrenceville and Plainsboro sites. This group is working with the Green Team and has partnered with the Wildlife Habitat Council to enhance wildlife habitats at Lawrenceville, Plainsboro, and associated central New Jersey sites. The first project taken on by the group was the installation of ten bluebird nest boxes. The boxes were constructed and installed by Lawrenceville's own carpenters and are a popular nesting sites for the local birds. We have also installed a martin house and bat houses. The lake at the Lawrenceville site also is home to egrets, swans, turtles, and numerous species of fish.
The Lawrenceville site has adopted the Coopers Hawk and the Plainsboro site has adopted the Bobolink as endangered species. These two species are native to the respective sites and a brochure detailing these activities and opportunities has been developed and is available to all employees.
The Lawrenceville Campus applies a variety of structural and managerial approaches as best stormwater management practices. Structural stormwater management features, such as the wet pond, vegetated swales, and stormwater wetlands, reduce stormwater overland flow velocity and remove pollutants from stormwater. Additionally, previously mowed areas around the Campus are becoming fallow fields to reduce stormwater runoff and increase groundwater infiltration. Managerial efforts to reduce stormwater impacts include developing water use reduction plans that will ultimately reduce stormwater discharge, holding household hazardous waste days where employees can bring in their household hazardous wastes for disposal, and participation in the Adopt-A-Highway program that helps keep trash out of our local waterbodies. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has accepted the Lawrenceville Campus as a charter member in their National Performance Track program that recognizes participants with superior environmental performance and high quality environmental management systems. Please see our stormwater brochure (1.8MB PDF) for more information.

Biosafety Management System

A team of Bristol-Myers Squibb Worldwide Medicines Group biosafety officers and web designers representing our company’s Pharmaceutical Research Institute (PRI) facilities in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut developed an innovative Web-based Biohazardous Agents Registration (BAR) Management System. This system facilitates compliance with biosafety-related guidelines and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
A key feature of this management system is a Bristol-Myers Squibb intranet-resident BAR Form, which is completed by PRI research project leaders and electronically submit to their individual sites' biosafety officers. This form is designed to provide biosafety officers with comprehensive and detailed information about potentially biohazardous research projects at the facilities to which they are assigned.
Biosafety officers and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Institutional Biosafety Committees (IBCs) review any research projects that utilize recombinant DNA technology. All the IBCs have at least two members from the local communities who are not otherwise affiliated with the Company. As a result, the IBCs also provide a public forum for addressing local stakeholders' biotechnology questions and concerns about recombinant DNA research.
All research project information submitted on BAR forms from research project leaders at the individual company locations is electronically stored in a shared database that is readily accessible by the entire Bristol-Myers Squibb research community, for purposes of information sharing and updating. To date, more than 400 unique, PRI research projects have been registered and are being tracked and effectively managed using the BAR Management System.
The BAR Management System provides a number of significant qualitative benefits by
- Supporting the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pledge and Environmental, Health and Safety Policy by helping to protect the environment, employees, customers, and the general public from exposure to potentially hazardous materials.
- Supporting the PRI strategy by reviewing and addressing regulatory and EHS issues and concerns with biological processes and products in the early discovery and development phase of the product lifecycle, and by facilitating intra- and inter-site project information sharing among researchers from the various PRI therapeutic groups.
- Facilitating compliance with government and company biosafety and biotechnology-related regulations, guidelines, and policies.
- Providing biosafety officers and other EHS professionals with a mechanism for the disclosure and effective biosafety management of biotechnology research and manufacturing activities at sites.
- Supporting IBCs, which in turn provide a public forum for addressing stakeholders' questions and concerns regarding recombinant DNA activities at Bristol-Myers Squibb facilities.

The Lawrenceville facility is required to report annually on releases of toxic chemicals to the air, water, and land under Section 313 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA). This website links to the U.S. government's toxic release inventory (TRI) database.

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