2015 GOAL
Implement best-in-class programs designed to protect the safety and improve the health of employees that result in performance in the top three of industry peers.
Baxter Sustainability Priorities and 2015 Goals
Baxter’s approximately 48,500 employees worldwide are essential to creating products that save and sustain lives. The company is continually improving its programs to provide a safe, healthy and inclusive workplace and to foster a culture that drives integrity and innovation.
2011 PROGRESS
Compared to 2010, Baxter improved its recordable case rate by 5% and its cases with days lost rate by 6%. However, the company’s days lost rate rose by 20%. In 2011, Baxter launched a three-pronged approach to enhancing its safety culture and performance. In 2010, the most recent year data was available, Baxter’s cases with days lost rate ranked third of industry peers.1 As part of the BeWell@Baxter strategy, the company offered free seasonal flu vaccinations to 98% of the global employee population during 2011.
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1In a comparison of 13 healthcare companies reporting global safety data to Mercer (formerly ORC Worldwide) and two healthcare companies reporting data on public websites (15 total companies).
2015 GOAL
Create and sustain an inclusive culture where diverse ideas, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are respected and valued.
2011 PROGRESS
All Baxter employees companywide completed training on how to contribute to an inclusive culture. Additionally, all employees were required to add an inclusion goal as part of their individual goals for the year. Also during the year, Baxter established two Business Resource Groups, “Building Women Leaders” and “Latinos@Baxter.”
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2011 Culture Survey
2015 GOAL
Continue to champion internal and industrywide ethical sales and marketing practices by:
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Implementing Baxter's enhanced U.S. Healthcare Compliance Program and International Anticorruption Program within the company
2011 PROGRESS
In 2011, Baxter's major efforts in the United States focused on implementing a program to comply with the Physician Payment Sunshine Act. Outside the United States, Baxter enhanced its risk-based anticorruption education program by piloting an intensive anticorruption risk education session in the Asia Pacific region, in addition to the awareness and comprehensive training offered annually to employees who regularly interact with government officials and healthcare professionals.
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Ethics and Compliance Structure
Channels for Guidance
Working with U.S. and international trade associations, non-governmental organizations and governments to harmonize and enforce standards on financial interactions with healthcare providers that allow for appropriate education, research and dialogue on products and services and discourage improper incentives.
Baxter continued work with Eucomed and Advamed on a European approach to third-party anticorruption efforts, sharing Baxter’s perspectives and helping to create a standard industry approach. Additionally, Baxter’s China Ethics and Compliance team made progress with the China Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment R&D-based Pharmaceutical Association Committee on advancing an industry-wide ethical sales and marketing code.
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