Introduction Climate Change Resources Smarter Chemistry Engagement and Advocacy Appendix 2023 Environmental Progress Report 58 Our approach We carefully consider the chemicals Smarter chemistry is our approach to identifying protect the environment. We’re working side by side with Our smarter chemistry strategy that we use in our products and chemicals that best serve all our priorities, including leading members of the scientific community, NGOs, and manufacturing processes. These safety, performance, and environmental impact. This industry organizations to move forward, and we continue choices directly impact the safety, supports our circular supply chain efforts by minimizing to push for the development and broad adoption of the recirculation of potentially harmful substances. Our safer alternatives. recyclability, and reuse of our efforts to remove potentially harmful chemicals from products, which are key to truly our products help create safer and healthier workplaces Our approach involves proactively promoting the use Mapping and engagement circular supply chains. for our employees and suppliers, and safe products for of smarter materials and chemicals. This involves Engage our supply chain partners to comprehensively identify the chemicals people and the environment. establishing safety requirements that often exceed local in the materials used to make our products and the processes used to make industry standards and empowering our suppliers to meet them, allowing us to drive change that goes beyond what’s required for Our approach to limiting potential chemical exposure our guidelines. We also help suppliers source materials regulatory compliance. in product manufacturing leverages the hierarchy of that are safer alternatives, which provide the necessary controls. The hierarchy of controls is a concept used to level of performance and are also better for people control hazard exposure and consists of five actions in and the environment. We have created standards and order of preference: elimination, substitution, engineering programs to support these efforts, including the rigorous controls, administrative controls, and personal protective requirements defined in our Regulated Substances equipment (PPE). Elimination and substitution are the Specification (RSS) and the deep supply chain most preferred forms of control. When no alternative is engagement through our Full Material Disclosure (FMD) Assessment and management available to eliminate or substitute potential exposure, and Chemical Safety Disclosure (CSD) programs. We also Assess the potential human health and environmental risks of chemicals to we rely on engineering and administrative controls share what we’ve learned in creating these systems with evaluate compliance with our requirements and inform product design. to safeguard against it. As we focus on this for our others in the industry — and we push for change that can manufacturing processes, we push our industry to do transform product manufacturing. the same. Advocacy and leadership are needed to make this We’ve taken the important initial step of accounting for happen. We’re committed to providing both this role, the materials that we use, both in our products and in pushing to broaden the use of safer and more sustainable the processes to create them. This information helps materials based on smarter chemistry — and working Innovation us better protect the people who design, make, use, with our suppliers and material manufacturers to create Drive the development and use of innovative materials that enable the creation and recycle our devices. It also informs our efforts to alternatives that can help move our industry forward. of groundbreaking products and support industry-wide change.