Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)

Life Technologies is dedicated to protecting the environment and promoting the health and safety of employees, customers and communities. The company fosters employee ownership of safety and health issues, complies with regulatory requirements, and strives to create products with lifecycles that tread lightly on the environment.

Our EHS Mission and Goals

Our mission is to achieve excellence through sustainable EHS practices by focusing on four building blocks. These building blocks establish the foundation of our EHS culture and positions Life Technologies to serve as a responsible steward in the global life science community.

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Global EHS Management Systems

The Life Technologies Global EHS organization uses a comprehensive approach to manage EHS aspects of the business along the entire supply chain, from sourcing materials, to developing, manufacturing and distributing products to our customers.  This approach consists of the EHS Achievement Program and the EHS Audit Program. Both programs are applied with the same level of rigor to all sites globally, whether in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region or the United States.

EHS Achievement Ladder

News

  • New Genomic Alliance

    Life Technologies announced the creation of the Genomic Cancer Care Alliance to help people battling cancer gain access to treatment options found through analysis of their genomic information. Founding partners include Fox Chase Cancer Center, Scripps Genomic Medicine, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).The announcement came during the Consumer Genetics Conference being held June 2-4 in Boston.

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  • The 2009 CSR REPORT

    Life Technologies released its 2009 Global Citizenship Report, highlighting Life Technologies' organization-wide initiatives to be a leading corporate citizen and balance environmental and social issues with its overall mission to shape biological discovery and ultimately improve life.

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  • Synthetic Genomics, Inc.

    Life Technologies Corporation announced that it has made an equity investment in Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI), a privately held company founded to commercialize synthetic genomic advances. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

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