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Environment, Health & Safety at Sun.
The Environment, Health & Safety function at Sun Microsystems is
responsible for issues relating to providing all employees and workers
at Sun a safe and healthy working environment, ensuring the company's
compliance with applicable environmental regulations and best
practices and working with product design and engineering teams to
ensure that Sun products will comply with all applicable laws and
changing customer expectations.
Sun Microsystems has followed a dispersed model of providing the full
range of EH&S services. For example, Sun's Solid Waste Management
and Product Take-back and Recycling Programs are managed by the
WorldWide Operations organization; efforts to improve the environmental
performance of our products are carried out by product design teams and
the central engineering organization (e.g. Design for the Environment
Program).
Ensuring not only legal and regulatory compliance but adherence to best
practices with respect to the impact of Sun's physical operations and
facilities is the responsibility of Workplace Resources (under which,
the EH&S function resides). The day-to-day environmental compliance
and occupational health activities have been outsourced to highly
skilled partners who work alongside Sun employees and provide the
company with distinct advantages through their expertise, flexibility,
and skill depth.
The Corporate EHS staff is very small. This group conducts strategic
projects, supports corporate efforts such as real estate development,
manages the EH&S audit program and participates in public policy
formulation.
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