Bristol-Myers Squibb - Summer 2008 Member of the Quarter

June 12, 2010

Bristol Meyers Squib is member of the summer! Bristol-Myers Squibb’s (BMS) Devens facility won’t be complete for another year - employees are located in space rented from one company and equipment is stored in another - yet they are already valued members of the community and leading by example! The company’s commitment to sustainability (see http://bms.com/ehs/index.html) and the dedication of BMS’s Devens Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) team earned them the designation of EcoStar’s Member of the Quarter. The employees are involved in several community-based initiatives; Dan Noberini (Associate Director of Environmental, Health and Safety), Chris Francis (Senior Environmental, Health and Safety Specialist), and Sarita Croce (Technical Lead, Environmental Compliance) have been enthusiastic participants in EcoStar activities since they were hired.

Bristol-Myers Squibb

(Summer 2008 Member of the Quarter)

Bristol-Myers Squibb’s (BMS) Devens facility won’t be complete for another year - employees are located in space rented from one company and equipment is stored in another - yet they are already valued members of the community and leading by example! The company’s commitment to sustainability (see http://bms.com/ehs/index.html) and the dedication of BMS’s Devens Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) team earned them the designation of EcoStar’s Member of the Quarter. The employees are involved in several community-based initiatives; Dan Noberini (Associate Director of Environmental, Health and Safety), Chris Francis (Senior Environmental, Health and Safety Specialist), and Sarita Croce (Technical Lead, Environmental Compliance) have been enthusiastic participants in EcoStar activities since they were hired.

Background

BMS Devens currently has 130 employees; they expect to employ over 300 when the facility opens in late 2009. This division of the global company will initially focus on the development of compounds used to make Orencia, a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. In the future they will expand activities to include a number of biological pharmaceutical products in the research and development stage or in clinical trials.

Bristol-Myers Squibb has adopted a set of Sustainability 2010 Goals that apply to a broad range of areas comparable to EcoStar Standards, including environmental performance, sustainable products, supply chain partnership, leadership development, community outreach, social policies and metrics, and land preservation. Global progress in these areas is tracked and publicly reported at www.bms.com/ehs/vision/data/sustai.html. The initiatives highlighted in the following paragraphs demonstrate how the Devens facility and employees have brought the company closer to meeting its goals in some of these areas.

Green Buildings

Dan Noberini is committed to minimizing the environmental footprint of the Devens campus. The first phase of the development on an 88-acre site will include six buildings; the manufacturing facility and the lab and administration building will be LEED certified. “LEED certification is being managed as a project within a project,” said Dan Noberini. “The Devens facility will be the first LEED certified facility in the Bristol-Myers Squibb, Co. network and will incorporate systems to reduce energy, emissions and increase employee comfort.” Construction and demolition waste on the site is being segregated for recycling and where possible building materials with recycled content are being used. Other eco-friendly features of these two facilities will include: high-efficiency plumbing fixtures, paints and

adhesives with low volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and increased access to natural light to reduce the need for energy for lighting. Landscaping will incorporate drought-tolerant plant species and will be maintained with a high-efficiency landscape irrigation system. Employees with hybrid vehicles will be rewarded with access to restricted preferred parking spaces. This project serves as a valuable demonstration model to local developers and facility owners.

Right From the Start

Despite their location in temporary quarters, BMS employees have processes in place to capture paper, cardboard, plastic, and glass waste for recycling. Recently they launched a campaign to eliminate the use of paper cups by promoting the use of coffee mugs. Currently, the break areas in the BMS construction trailers use approximately 1,000 paper coffee/water cups a week, which equates to approximately 3,250 lbs of paper products per month. The team hopes to reduce this volume by 75% with the mug program.

Sarita Croce publishes a monthly tip that provides the Devens employees with suggestions and simple steps that they can take to minimize the environmental impacts of every day activities; recent topics include how to decrease the energy consumption of inactive PCs and ways to improve your vehicle’s gas mileage.

Members of the EHS team are significant contributors at our workshops and roundtables. Chris Francis recently shared a training tool that BMS uses to educate employees on safety measures that minimize the risk of electrical shocks with other environmental, health and safety professionals from the area. Participants in the roundtable were very grateful for the valuable learning experience his presentation provided.