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For example, in the area of energy efficiency, we are in the process of ensuring every practice makes the switch to a renewable energy provider once existing contracts allow.
And our fleet of electric cars and vans and strategically positioned EV charge points enable us to support our growing family of practices emission-free.
To minimize waste, we’ve introduced a new protocol to reduce cup usage across our practices and are working to digitize communication where appropriate to significantly reduce the use of paper.
Our business believes the environmental and social challenges facing the dental industry, society, and planet are opportunities to make a difference.
Since data capture is essential in developing achievable sustainability strategies and carbon route maps, and assessing where improvements are most needed, we require our supply chain to invest in adequate data capture, management, and delivery.
We are collaborating with our partners and suppliers to mitigate the environmental impact of our supply chain, such as CODistribution Centers, transport activities, packaging, employee business travel and other sources, as well as the ethical and labor risks inherent in operating in and working with suppliers in higher...
We aim to co-create an ethical, inclusive, circular, and carbon-neutral supply chain, jointly manage our impacts, and innovate for sustainability.
Our fleet handles only a small portion of our customer shipments, with most of such deliveries outsourced to logistics partners, leading to transport-related Scope 3 emissions.
Scope CO2 emissions in our value chain, including upstream (inbound) and downstream (outbound) activities.
We exchange data to increase the visibility of climate impact in the supply chain, work to improve the emission measurement and calculation methodologies, and use these insights to work on ways to reduce our joint impact.
Many of our carriers are switching to electric or hybrid vehicles and adopting other efficiency measures such as the use of modern engines and efficient fuels to reduce the carbon intensity of transport.
But we also recognize that we can’t eliminate or mitigate all transport-related emissions.
In our path to Net Zero, we ultimately need to utilize carbon removal and offset mechanisms for residual emissions that can’t be mitigated.
In carriers, we offset 4,954 metric tons of emissions.
Supported projects included reforestation, landfill gas destruction, wastewater treatment, and methane destruction.
During the last year, Brasseler USA changed its nitric based chemical passivation process, which is a widelyused surface finishing and treatment process, to a more sustainable and environmental friendly citric based treatment process to achieve the same high performance standards.
We review and monitor the emissions from this enhanced network annually to avoid unnecessary emissions and identify further improvement opportunities.
We report on our employee business travel in the U.S.rentals as well as flights, that we started to capture and calculate in 2020.
However, our packaging also contributes to our emissions and environmental impact in the supply chain.
The choice of packaging material, the extent of damage prevention, and the product-to-package ratio all determine the overall footprint of our packaging operation.
Corrugated boxes and cartons are a significant part of our packaging and are inherently renewable and recyclable.
Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification, and SFI®: Sustainable Forestry Initiative®.
A repeat of these processes due to damage means further use of resources, additional emissions, and costs that would otherwise have been avoided.
Ethical and labor aspects in the supply chain We are committed to upholding human rights standards in all areas of our business and support the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which provides a practical, useful framework for businesses to manage and address the Company’s human rights impacts in the ...
The Code includes provisions on business integrity, labor practices and human rights, health and safety, and environmental management.
Supplier diversity We are committed to working with a diverse supplier base that includes small businesses owned by ethnic minorities, women, LGBT+, disabled, veterans, servicedisabled veterans, historically underutilized business zones (HUBZone), and small business enterprises, to provide our customers with the best s...
Schein guide our efforts — to our suppliers, we are dedicated to promoting an environment that enables growth in the spirit of partnership, and to society at large, we are dedicated to enabling further access to health care.
Our supplier diversity program supports the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), and we recognize its importance in contributing to a positive economic impact, locally and nationally.
Encouraging a diverse and inclusive workforce A foundational element of our supplier diversity program is fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce.
We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce nurtures an environment that understands and promotes supplier diversity.
Integrating supplier diversity into our processes During our supplier evaluation process, each supplier partner is requested to complete our Business Partner Certification.
This enables us to review diversity classification(s) and certification(s) before onboarding a supplier.
We have enhanced our capabilities in this area to support the integrity of our data and provide reporting to track and monitor diversity spending.
Furthermore, we continue to educate our teams on the importance of supplier diversity and have enhanced the visibility of our diverse supplier partners.
Our dedication to supplier diversity is a continuous learning journey and our processes will continue to evolve.
We follow FDA Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) for applicable drug products, which include our regulatory analysis of the REMS’ requirements that are applicable to wholesale distributors.
We want purposeful, rewarding careers for our TSMs – so they can fulfill their potential and contribute to society, the economy, and the environment.
Our learning and development programs, and diversity and inclusion efforts, such as supporting our team through employee resource groups (ERGs), and various wellness initiatives, also continued to address the pandemic and its consequences.
Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) is a strategic priority for the organization and is advanced by recruiting and retaining diverse talent, cultivating our culture, supporting our marketplace, and continuing our commitment to society.
To showcase the Company’s commitment to D&I, our Diversity and Inclusion Council recommended adding a formal diversity and inclusion value to our existing Team Schein Values.
By and Vice Presidents on the key concepts of Diversity and Inclusion.
Overall, our study shows that pay is administered in a fair and equitable manner across gender and ethnicity, which is a positive and important data point as we continue to focus on diversity and inclusion across the Company.
As our committed to increasing the diversity of all underrepresented groups in senior levels by improving the Company’s talent acquisition and organizational development practices, as well as by enhancing its compensation processes to better align with the Company’s strategic objectives.
Our Diversity and Inclusion Council drives our Company-wide D&I strategy and helps prioritize efforts.
To complement our educational efforts, and in addition to our recruiting toolkits, we introduced guidelines for managers on how to practice D&I, inclusive leadership, and promoting diversity in teams.
TSMs are also encouraged to learn from one another continuously and our Employee Resource Groups while modeling behaviors that educate others and promote D&I.
To ensure the alignment amongst our stakeholders, we will be disclosing our report to illustrate the diversity of our U.S. workforce.
The gender diversity of our Executive Management Committee globally is illustrated here.
Cultivating our culture We use the power of inclusion to foster an intrapreneurial environment focused on the wellbeing of our employees driven by our core values.
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) at Henry Schein are voluntary, employee-led networks that foster a diverse, inclusive workplace aligned with our Corporate Charter, Team Schein Values, and business goals.
ERGs support the Company’s efforts to attract and retain the best talent, promote leadership and development at all levels, build an internal support system for employees within the Company, educate TSMs on the challenges and successes of diverse communities, and encourage diversity and inclusion amongst employees at a...
The data showed that our team, across all demographics, feels that Diversity and Inclusion is one of our greatest strengths.
We believe that creating a diverse and inclusive environment goes beyond Henry Schein, which is why we are committed to engaging with external partners who share our common mission, as well as ensuring we understand the changing demographics of our customers and their patients.
We also have continued with our long history of support for diversity in the health care professions through our support of the Black Coalition against COVID, National Dental Association (NDA), the Hispanic Dental Society (HDA), the Society of American Indian Dentists (SAID), Alpha Omega International Dental Society (A...
Henry Schein was one of four founding corporate sponsors of the American Dental Association’s Diversity in Leadership Institute, which was created to foster leadership training and a corporate mentoring network within the dental profession in order to improve the business management skills of dentists from racial, ethn...
In Distribution Businesses into a single Sales Training and Development Organization that will incorporate the success of multiple divisions into an elite resource for Henry Schein.
and recognition Our TSMs’ ability to effectively communicate and collaborate across functional and departmental teams positively impacts our performance.
They help us promote and foster a safe working environment and minimize accidents and safety-related incidents in the workplace.
As part of our accidentprevention program, we conduct studies on an as-needed basis to measure air quality or noise level in order to manage any occupational health impacts on our employees.
In addition to employee health and safety, we are committed to providing a work environment for TSMs that drives a culture of overall wellness.
While wellness has always been an essential focus for us, it is especially so now as we see the long-lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We continue to invest in supporting diversity within and among today’s health care profession while building towards a future workforce that better reflects our diverse society to create more impactful care while closing health care gaps.
We continued to sponsor the American Association of Dental Office Management’s Green Leader Initiative to recognize and support environmentally conscious practices in the dental office, and by assisting practice owners in designing spaces that meet globally recognized standards for environmental sustainability through ...
In response to the severe flooding across Western Europe in to support relief and recovery efforts, donating muchneeded health care supplies to non-governmental organizations, and supporting customers residing within the flood disaster areas.
Oversight of ESG and sustainability activities Oversight of sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues is incorporated within the Board of Directors’ Nominating and Governance Committee charter.
To showcase the Company’s commitment to D&I, the Council recommended adding a formal diversity and inclusion value to our existing Team Schein Values.
The Council is tasked with driving, coordinating, operationalizing and tracking our climate change and other environmental impact, risks, opportunities, and progress toward achieving strategic environmental goals.
Advancing our role in the circular economy within our supply chain to minimize and eliminate waste.
Our Board of Directors brings a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and skills to the boardroom, reflecting the diversity of our customers, investors, suppliers, and TSMs, which enables the diversity of thought that we believe is necessary to advance the needs of the business and our stakeholders in an evolving soc...
Three of the four new directors had gender or ethnic diversity.
Therefore, the experience and expertise of our Board of Directors members relating to environmental, social, and governance topics, among others, are considered part of a director nominee’s overall qualifications.
Our Global Supplier Code of Conduct clarifies our global expectations of our supplier partners in the areas of business integrity, labor practices, employee health and safety, and environmental management.
By the end of our Compliance helpline reporting process against the effectiveness criteria of the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights, specifically to establish the effectiveness of this system for reporting potential discrimination incidents and will include diversity education to those han...
While undoubtedly a strategic risk mitigation mechanism, cybersecurity is also essential in helping us comply with international laws and regulations, including data privacy laws globally.
We believe that these frameworks offer us the best way to present our most important environmental, social and governance (ESG) information in a transparent, accurate and reliable way.
Scope water for our Distribution Centers (DCs) in North America, Europe, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, and China, as well as our Melville offices in the U.S. Water is not reported for our Denver, Reno, Calgary and Vancouver DCs, waste is not reported for Vancouver DC, and landfilled waste not reported for Gillingham ...
For Scope established sources for emission factors, such as those published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The majority of data on our Scope (greenhouse gas emissions in the supply chain) are provided by third parties (including suppliers and service providers) and not calculated or assured by Henry Schein.
We put Responsible Business at its heart with a commitment to lead our industry in four areas: becoming an inclusive company; helping to tackle climate change and become Forest Positive; making greener and healthier homes affordable; and working with charity partners to fix bad housing.
We have already reduced emissions from our direct operations by almost a quarter since on track to our independently validated science-based target.
We’ve been working on sourcing our wood and paper responsibly since the early our Forest Positive commitment goes further, committing us to create more forest than we use.
Key to this is our partnership with the Rainforest Alliance which sees us supporting six projects covering are tackling deforestation and supporting sustainable livelihoods for forest communities.
Resource-efficient homes for all We think everyone deserves a greener, healthier home – that’s comfortable to live in but uses fewer resources and costs less to run.
With rising energy prices, home energy efficiency has never been more important.
In from our Sustainable Home Products that include everything from energy efficient appliances, low flow water taps and chemicalfree gardening ranges, to products made from responsibly sourced wood and recycled plastic.
Our four priorities are underpinned by our Responsible Business Fundamentals – the issues and impacts we measure and manage to ensure we continue to operate responsibly across our business.
and help tackle climate change We will become Forest Positive by creating more forests than we use, and investing in forest projects.
We will help tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions from our business, products and supply chains.
Our targets – for our products and catalogues by 2025/26. – Become Forest Positive by 2025/26. – Achieve our approved science-based carbon reduction target by 2025/26.
Fundaţia Brico Dépôt Romania has donated c. £emergency supplies such as shelters, blankets, medicines, food and water.
It has also donated c. £refugee camps and refugee transit centres, and c. £10,000 to the Humanitarian Foundation North 2001 – Blood for Romania to provide emergency supplies, food and water to Ukrainian families at the border.
Brico Dépôt Romania has also donated products and in-kind support to NGOs and local authorities supporting refugees including fuel and generators, blankets, blow-up mattresses, torches and waterproof clothing.
Our diversity is our strength and is fundamental to the way we operate.
We are focusing on diversity and inclusion because we know it makes for a more resilient business and a more innovative and engaged workforce.
Our action plan for diversity and inclusion Our workforce should always represent the communities we operate in at all levels and we want our workplaces to be truly inclusive.
To help us get there, our inclusion and diversity strategy identifies four priority focus areas.
Partnering on diversity Our CEO and Chairman are members of the of women on boards and executive committees.
We have signed the British Retail Consortium’s (BRC’s) new Better Jobs Diversity and Inclusion Charter, making six pledges to improve diversity in the retail sector.