Sustainable enterprise is a necessity nowadays for every business. Governments, public opinion, customers and employees expect people, raw materials and resources to be deployed sensibly.

Janssen has actively practiced sustainability for a long time already, and sustainable behavior is already the rule at our Janssen Campus. Sustainable values have been enshrined in Our Credo for many decades already. The establishment of a cross-departmental Sustainability Council at the Janssen Campus supports our strategy to take initiatives in that area even more consciously and systematically.  

Sustainability strategy

As proof of our responsibility towards present and future generations, Janssen formulated a global sustainability strategy at the end of 2010. A worldwide Sustainability Council was set up to implement that strategy. It was also decided to set up such councils at the local level as well. 

In order to create broad support, all of the Janssen groups in Belgium are represented in the Campus Sustainability Council or in the local Sustainability Council. The role of these councils is to fill in the sustainability policy in more detail and to integrate it into the daily working method of Janssen Belgium. In the meantime, a good number of departments have started a number of initiatives.  These were mapped out and then supported where needed. A short-term strategy, in line with the goals of Healthy Future 2015, was developed and is now being rolled out.

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The short term sustainability strategy (2013-2015) comprises the following strategic development areas:

  1. health, safety and commitment of all employees; 
      • optimize deployability of all employees;
      • create cross-departmental sustainability culture;
  2. global and local health; 
      • promote well-being of the immediate environment;
  3. transparency and external cooperation
      • Enhance our image as a sustainable enterprise in the outside world;
  4. protection of the environment
      • reduce our ecological footprint;
      • minimize discharge of our product ingredients in the environment;
      • strive for sustainability as part of pharmaceutical legislation;
  5. sustainable suppliers;
      • ensure that suppliers and partners comply with our minimum sustainability standards.

Strengthen impact

Sustainable enterprise has an environmental, social and economic dimension. Those three aspects must strengthen each other. Every initiative that we develop in the area of sustainability must have a positive impact on more than one of those three aspects. That is our touchstone.

A sustainable environmental policy limits our ecological footprint. But the rational use of water, energy and other raw materials has an impact on the human and business aspect as well. Water treatment and waste processing costs a lot of money and energy. Preventing waste and wastewater therefore not only benefits the environment. It also helps us to spend our budgets differently. In many cases we also reduce the health risk to our employees by dispensing with the need to use dangerous solvents and detergents. Environmentally conscious initiatives therefore also have an impact on the social aspect.

If we adopt the economic perspective, profit is only sustainable if it is not made at the expense of the environment and employees, patients and future generations. All those stakeholders are best served by a pharmaceutical company that makes a healthy profit. That profit yields the necessary resources to develop and manufacture new medicines and to deliver them to patients in time.

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Communication: the key to success

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The special task of the local Sustainability Council is precisely to support initiatives which are on the cutting edge of these sustainability aspects and to disseminate this approach to Janssen in Belgium. We would like to see all of the Janssen employees develop a habit of assessing projects from these 3 points of view.

The Sustainability Council is striving to reach that goal with the help of an internal communication campaign, among other things. Anyone who walks around at the different Janssen sites soon comes face-to-face with the Three Musketeers, a trio of spirited comic book characters on posters and screens throughout the terrains. The figures, who represent the economic, social and ecological dimension, were developed by the Sustainability Council and play an important role in conveying messages about sustainability issues to the employees on the campus. After all, sustainability is an action word and is everyone's business. 

About
Janssen

Patient care is central to everything Janssen does. After more than fifty years, that is and remains the main reason we exist.

There is no time to waste in health care. The way in which we will make diagnoses, administer medication, identify or prevent diseases and monitor patients will be revolutionarily different from today. That is why Janssen is evolving from a pharmaceutical company into an organization offering total healthcare solutions tailored to individual patients.