Quality and EHS
Quality Policy
At Angelini Pharma we are committed to the consistent delivering of highest quality products to meet and exceed our Patients’, Consumers’, Customers’ and Stakeholders’ expectations, in full compliance with applicable regulations, codes and standards.
A quality-focused culture and a consistent quality management practice are foundational for our purpose and vision. Our guiding principles are embodied in this Quality Policy:
EVOLVE OUR CULTURE
- Our inclusive leaders are accountable and committed to maintaining an effective Quality Management System (QMS) by means of appropriate and efficient systems, processes and procedures in place. They commit to acting as enablers for inspiring and driving quality-focused behaviours and ensure decision-making based on what is best for product quality, as well as patients’ and consumers’ safety.
- Each person, regardless of their role, is a significant contributor in fostering a quality mindset. We ensure that all employees have appropriate education, training, skills and experience to carry out their work competently according to applicable regulations and standards, as well as follow our procedures.
- We aim at spreading the quality culture at all company levels, promoting integration and collaboration of global and local organizations to embed compliance into efficient operations.
DELIVER THE CORE
- We adopt a Risk Management Integrated System aimed at guaranteeing that any risk associated with our products is promptly detected, evaluated and either reduced to a minimum or nullified. Actions are timely identified in order to prevent potential product quality or compliance risks. Processes for escalating issues to ensure product integrity, as well as patients’ and consumers’ safety, are in place and consistently used.
- We are focused on providing quality guidance and operational support to ensure that a robust and resilient global supply chain is in place for medicinal products, guaranteeing treatment access for patients, even during major public health threats.
- All relevant third-party providers and suppliers, carrying out services on behalf of Angelini Pharma, are selected based on our quality and compliance criteria in order to ensure that our quality and safety standards are fully satisfied. We ensure an effective oversight of partners and mutual participation in defining the expected level of service.
FIT FOR THE FUTURE
- Our digital journey is accelerating to boost the use of digital systems, records and data that continuously improve the performance, efficiency, quality and traceability of our processes.
- We maintain a special focus on our R&D and pipeline construction to make sure that our scientific evolution is supported by the consistent compliance of our QMS, as well as by the adequate development of necessary technical and quality skills of our people.
- We leverage Angelini Pharma sustainability strategy and roadmap for integrating sustainability requirements into quality management practices, to make sure we provide high quality products and solutions that also preserve the environment and promote the growth of community close to our operations.
Our quality objectives are clearly defined, monitored and regularly reviewed to ensure that performance and standards of conduct meet the relevant high-quality expectations of our Patients, Consumers, Customers and Stakeholders.
Our Quality Policy is implemented through a company Quality Management System and is shared with all our workers. The Quality Policy is regularly reviewed in alignment with the company purposes and vision in which we develop, produce and distribute our products.
Our environmental and occupational health and safety (EHS) policy
Angelini Pharma Top Management, in line with the Vision, the Mission of the Company and the Organization, Management and Company Control Model and its Code of Ethics, establishes its own Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Policy, referring to research and development, industrialization, production and acquisition of products manufactured by third parties, marketing, logistics and distribution, typical of its business and concerning all products placed on the market, and It is committed to implementing and keeping it updated, so that it is always appropriate to the nature, size and impacts of its activities, with a view to the continuous improvement of environmental and occupational health and safety performance, as well as undertakes to disseminate it at all levels of the Organization and make it available to Interested Parties.
With it, Angelini Pharma outlines the guidelines, enunciates its own principles defined as commitments and sets its own objectives to achieve the results expected by the management system.
The concrete implementation of this Policy is supported by the whole Company Organization.
OUR EHS PRINCIPLES
- We want health, safety and well-being to be guaranteed at all times, in a sustainable way, to all people in the Organization and to the Interested Parties.
- We want to pursue the protection of the environment and health and safety in the workplace with initiatives aimed at eliminating dangers, reducing risks and containing any consequences for people, environment and stakeholders.
- We want to operate in full compliance with regulatory requirements regarding quality, environment and health and safety in the workplace, always maintaining a relationship of maximum collaboration and transparency with workers, with Public Authorities, with the external community and with anyone who may have influence on management systems.
- We are committed, through the Organization, to putting in place adequate resources with clear and well-defined roles and responsibilities and we are committed to providing everyone with the appropriate skills to be able to achieve our goals.
- We are committed to ensuring that the culture of health and safety in the workplace and environmental protection is the result of the work of each of us, encouraging processes of communication, participation and consultation at all levels of Organization.
- We work for the excellence of our processes, products and services, always taking into the utmost consideration the health and safety of workers, pursuing the sustainability of production models and products placed on the market.
- We are committed to achieving continuous improvement objectives, in order to ensure sustainable development, through the analysis of the impact of our activities on people and the environment.
OUR EHS GOALS
Top Management establishes the following macro environmental and worker health and safety objectives, which will be reviewed periodically, together with the results achieved, in order to continuously improve the performance of the management systems:
- Prevent accidents and improve accident rates through the implementation of prevention and protection measures, promoting safe behaviour and reporting unsafe acts and conditions;
- Promote actions and activities aimed at permeating the culture of health, safety and environmental protection at all organizational levels.
- Reduce direct and indirect environmental impacts, looking at the technological developments introduced by systems related to the ecological transition, adopting the best available technologies and virtuous behaviors with particular attention to:
- The circularity of processes and products;
- The sustainable use of resources;
- The climate change reduction and mitigation.
- Define a Sustainability Strategy that aims to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into corporate governance and management systems.
- Maintain an open and constructive dialogue with contractors and suppliers to engage them in implementing or maintaining conduct consistent with this Policy.
