Facility Information

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
WORLDWIDE MEDICINES

Facts and Figures

The São Paulo facility is approximately 38,000 square meters on a site of 54,700 square meters.

Types of products produced, researched, or distributed

São Paulo operations include development, manufacturing, and sales of pharmaceutical products, consumer products, nutritionals, and medical devices for Brazilian and international markets. The pharmaceuticals manufactured include:
- Anti-infectives
- Anti-depressives
- Antispasmodics
- Anti- virus
- Anxiolytics
- Cardiovasculars
- Dermathologics
- Oncology medicines

Consumer Products manufactured include:

Analgesics
Gastrointestinal products
Multi-vitamins
Cough and cold

Mead Johnson Nutritionals products include:

Nutritional supplements
Infant formula
Vitamins

Economic Development

The facility directly contributes to the local economy through employee wages and benefits, capital investment in the site, and contributions through taxes.

Community and Social Progress

Awards and recognition

Since 1998, the facility has received the Safety Excellence Award four times as a result of maintaining its accident rates below the goals annually established by Corporate EHS.
In 2004, the facility was selected as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work for in Latin America by the Great Place to Work Institute.

EHS Merit Awards

The annual EHS merit awards were created at the facility in 1996 to recognize and award any individual or group exhibiting innovative ways to prevent accidents, show environmental commitment, and promote health, inside or outside BMS. The categories awarded are individual, group, supplier, third party, and community.

Sustainability 2010 Awards

The Sustainability 2010 Awards were developed to promote integration among all employees with the 2010 goals. These awards allow BMS Brazil to identify different ways to support the company to achieve the goals.

Employee Volunteering

In October 2004, during the 9th Annual Environment Week, the EHS Department and employee volunteers carried out the Environmental Educational Program for employees' and contractors' children. Nearly 80 children, ranging from 4 to 10 years old, attended and learned many things about environmental protection. Games, painting, recycling activities, and lectures were developed, all related to environmental protection.
In 2002 and 2003, pupils from two local schools visited the site and EHS department, which developed a recycling program for the schools. As a reward for the children's participation, a special Environmental Educational Program was held for them, showing how BMS deals with the environment, health, and safety at its facility.
The site has adopted, in support of the company's 2010 Sustainability Goals, the Castanheira do Pará (Brazilian Nuts tree) and Blue Macaw, both in extinction in Pantanal Area, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Civic supported activities

Since July 2000, Bristol-Myers Squibb has been participating in the campaign "The Cartridge that Saves," which makes part of "Einstein in the Community," developed by the volunteer department of the Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo City. This program aims to support needy children of a poor district, named Paraisópolis. More than 1000 cartridges were donated to the institution since the beginning of the campaign.

Environmental Performance

Bristol-Myers Squibb Brazil was the first Brazilian Pharmaceutical Company to have its EMS (Environmental Management System) ISO 14001 certified.
In 2004, the facility received its second ISO 14001 environmental management system re-certification.
Examples of notable EHS practices at the site include:
- Responding to risks and global challenges like global warming and water scarcity.
- The facility has environmental plans to reduce consumption of water and energy and to minimize of waste generation.
- The facility also has an action plan to replace all ozone-depleting gases to environment-friendly refrigeration gas.
- A program has been created to increase awareness and control of pollutants emitted by trucks driven inside the company premises by suppliers and service providers. More than 200 trucks per year have been inspected and less than 3.5 percent presented emissions above the limits established by the Brazilian standard.

Land conservation / habitat protection/ endangered species activities

Bristol-Myers Squibb co-sponsors a preservation of biologically diverse land on the outskirts of Brazil Pantanal National Park, under the auspices of the Center for Ecosystem Survival at San Francisco State University, USA.

Notable EHS Practices

The São Paulo facility conducted health campaigns promoted by the EHS Department, including flu vaccinations, ergonomic programs, visual health, and cardiovascular disease prevention, among others.
Stretching activities are performed by 31 areas every day for 15 minutes at the beginning of each shift. These stretching activities have reduced ergonomics-related injuries in some areas. The stretching activities have been expanded to include administrative employees.

Safety Performance

Worker health and safety is a top priority at the São Paulo facility. The facility has been working to reduce recordable accidents.

Safety Day

The facility implemented Safety Day to walk around, talk, and listen to employees about their perception of safety within the workplace and to demonstrate the management's commitment to safety. Safety Day is part of the leadership team's monthly visit.

Safety Hotline

Since August 2004, the facility has an extension available to allow employees to report any near misses, unsafe conditions, or request a safety evaluation.

EHS Impacts

Product Life Cycle: Companywide, Bristol-Myers Squibb aims to design products that meet the highest standards of excellence with regard to quality, cost, and EHS performance. The facility has made significant strides in this area. At Bristol-Myers Squibb Brazil, the Product Life Cycle (PLC) Review Program initially included eight production lines.

Following are some of the most significant environmental, cost, and quality improvements resulting from the PLC reviews:

Decreased paper consumption by printing instructions directly on the box face for free samples of some products. This also led to a decrease in package handling time.
Two-stage reduction on can thickness of nutritionals from an initial stage of 0.25 mm to 0.21 mm, then from 0.21 mm to a final stage of 0.18 mm. Savings equivalent to 52 tons per year of steel have been obtained at each reduction stage.
Reduction of the use of air-conditioning in a production area which resulted in electric energy savings.
Provided preparation instructions for a suspension powder on the cartridge's flap, instead of inserting separately printed instructions into the package, saving packaging time and paper consumption.

Other PLC improvements at the São Paulo facility include:

Joint work with carriers to promote proper conditioning of vehicles and reduced emissions during the transportation of products.
Use of recycled or recyclable materials for product promotions.
Printing the recyclable symbol on nutritional product cans.
Eliminating methylene chloride in the manufacturing of bulk tablets.
Reducing the risk of exposure to oncology products during final packaging, and eliminating the need to dispose of primary packaging.

Suppliers and contractors also play a key role in sustainability throughout the product life cycle. Staff from the São Paulo facility make technical visits to main contractors and Brazilian suppliers of raw materials and packaging materials, in order to verify their commitment to environmental, health, and safety issues. These technical visits seek to assure that EHS concerns are considered in addition to product quality, and are part of the first step of the facility's program of EHS qualification of its suppliers and contractors.

Key Facility Environmental Performance Metrics 2005
Total energy use	77,833 gigajoules
Water use	57,634,000 liters
Nonhazardous waste disposed	494,000 kilograms
Hazardous waste off-site treatment/disposal	80,000 kilograms

Facility Contact Information

+1-55-11-3882-2000

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