This is achieved by: ■■ Meeting or exceeding all applicable Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) requirements and verifying performance through audit ■■ Adopting industry standards where laws and regulations do not reflect best management practices ■■ Striving to create products that are safe in their intended use, conserve energy and materials, promote safety, and prevent pollution throughout the product life cycle, including design, manufacture, use and end-of-life management ■■ Supporting and promoting sound scientific principles and fiscally responsible public policies that enhance environmental quality, health and safety ■■ Advocating the adoption of prudent EHS principles and practices by our partners, contractors and suppliers Our capability-building program provides training to suppliers in an effort to improve upon areas of concern revealed in audits.