~35,000
Global Workforce
88%
Participation in Global Employee Engagement Survey
Global
Workforce
Europe: 27.4%
North America: 21.2%
ROW: 51.4%
DART Rate:61% BELOW
Industry Average
7
New OHSAS Sites certified for 18001 Bringing Total to 13
Around the globe, our global workforce of approximately 35,000 understands the critical role they play in expanding access to high quality medicine.
Our Leadership Expectations of Lead, Learn, Teach and Perform with the Right Attitude, along with our Talent Principles, comprise the foundation on which we manage and reward talent. Key components include: performance management and compensation; succession planning; learning and development; and employee recognition.
- Europe: 27.6%
- North America: 17.8%
- ROW: 54.6%
It’s important our people remain healthy and at their best. We offer generous benefits that are customized to the needs of our people around the globe. These may include retirement plans, health insurance, childcare, preventive health screenings, immunizations and more. Mylan is also working with employees to identify ways we can help our people balance life priorities and improve workplace flexibility.
Differing perspectives and life experiences make our business stronger. Our people reflect the communities where we work as well as the populations we serve. We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion, integrity, dignity and mutual respect. We are an equal opportunity employer that embraces what makes our people unique. Discrimination, harassment of any kind and retaliation are strictly prohibited. We educate employees on our equal employment opportunity and nondiscrimination policies as part of our mandatory annual Code of Business Conduct and Ethics training. Read more.
We have rigorous programs in place to ensure a safe and healthy workplace for all Mylan employees, contractors and visitors. Examples include but are not limited to emergency response, incident prevention, contractor safety, occupational toxicology, industrial hygiene, process safety, EHS training and regulatory compliance.
We cultivate an environment that encourages our people to speak up and play an active role in making workplace safety a priority. Our injury-prevention strategy promotes the identification and correction of potential hazards and the Incident Prevention Opportunity (IPO) Program encourages employees to identify potential hazards and act to correct them as soon as possible. Our Serious and Fatal Incident Prevention (SFIP) Program identifies potential situations that could create a more severe outcome and proactively addresses these conditions with effective controls.
In 2019, we launched new modules for our Safety Culture Program, which includes a new safety culture survey tool, leadership and employee workshops, and continuous improvement tracking for our sites. And our team has disaster preparedness plans and creates programming to further enhance a safety-first mindset. The following are other accomplishments from 2019:
• Received the 2019 National Member of the Year award from the National Safety Council of Australia (Foundation) for our Carole Park facility. The award is presented to an organization that has demonstrated commitment and leadership in Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) and is a result of the site’s success in raising awareness of best practice WHS within the safety community and making a positive difference to WHS and culture
• Achieved the British Safety Council (BSC) 5-Star Rating at India Unit 8 and Unit 9, bringing our total number of BSC-certified sites to four
• Twelve – or ~27% – of our manufacturing sites are OHSAS 18001 certified for Occupational Health and Safety systems
In 2019, we developed local action plans at more than 100 sites based on feedback from our 2018 global engagement survey. We also established a companywide focus on improving employee development, process efficiency and two-way communication. In a brief pulse engagement survey in 2019, we achieved 86% employee participation to track our progress toward our action plans, which found that 62% of employees have experienced positive changes since the 2018 survey. We also gained a slight increase in engagement with a global score of 71%, representing employees’ willingness to go above and beyond in their roles to support the company.
Mylan recognizes that water is a scarce resource in many of the communities where our employees live and the company does business. We work proactively to protect water and reduce consumption. While we have made significant headway in reduction at some locations, our water usage in 2017 increased by 3.5% to 3.3 million cubic meters, due primarily to increased global production. We continually look for ways to reduce water consumption, reuse water for non-potable purposes and install technologies that ensure adequate quality wastewater.
We continue to invest in wastewater treatment facilities and look for additional improvements across our operations. For example, we recently installed a state-of-the-art, full-scale wastewater treatment system in our manufacturing facility in Galway, Ireland.