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Our Environmental Management Principles
Out of the Dräger Environmental Policy we derived our Environmental Management Principles.
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Long Product Service Life
We develop, manufacture and sell products which offer a long service life and therefore contribute significantly to protecting the environment. The overriding objective of all our efforts is to protect the users of our products to the best of our ability – we combine this with the maximum possible environmental protection.
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Recycling
We recycle our products and operate a product return scheme. We offer our customers a disposal service to ensure that products designed for single use only or which can no longer be used are disposed of properly, in a way that is compatible with the environment.
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Product Development and Design
Even at the design and development stage, we are committed to using as many environ-mentally-friendly materials and as few non-reuseable materials as possible in our products. The modular design of our devices and the avoidance of composite materials are further important steps towards protecting the environment. We combine these essential aspects with the development of environmen-tally-compatible production methods. This approach is binding and set down in the Dräger Safety Standards.
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Avoidance and Minimization of Environ-mental Impact in Production
At Dräger Safety, production processes are evaluated with respect to their environmental relevance, improvements being initiated wherever possible. This is helped to a major extent by effective energy controlling: minimization of water and energy consumption is a continuous process.
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Involvement of Contractual Partners in Our Environmental Protection Efforts
We involve our suppliers and external partners in our environmental protection programmes. Before plans, decisions and activities of relevance to the environment are implemented, full consideration is given to all ecological and economic criteria.
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Preventive Management
Potential risks are assessed continuously, with action taken to minimize such risks wherever necessary. This is a central element of our effective and forward-looking fire protection management policy.
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Environmental Awareness Throughout the Company
Environmental awareness and behaviour is encouraged in all the departments of Dräger Safety. A variety of alternating activities are carried out to sensitize staff to environmental issues. In this respect, a central role is played by the ideas forum and communication via the Dräger Group staff newspaper "dialog".
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Occupational Safety and Health
Our goal is to encourage a preventive mentality and ensure that all processes run smoothly and correctly. Staff at all levels can identify with the concept of occupational safety and health. Occupational safety measures are planned and their implementation monitored. Occupational safety at Dräger Safety is continuously improved to reflect the latest knowledge of labour management.
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