Environmental Health & Safety

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)

Life Technologies is dedicated to protecting the environment and promoting the health and safety of employees, customers and communities. The company fosters employee ownership of safety and health issues, complies with regulatory requirements, and strives to create products with lifecycles that tread lightly on the environment.

Our EHS Mission and Goals

Our mission is to achieve excellence through sustainable EHS practices by focusing on four building blocks. These building blocks establish the foundation of our EHS culture and positions Life Technologies to serve as a responsible steward in the global life science community.



Life Technologies' four-year performance goals, to be concluded by 2012, are:

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Global EHS Management Systems

The Life Technologies Global EHS organization uses a comprehensive approach to manage EHS aspects of the business along the entire supply chain, from sourcing materials, to developing, manufacturing and distributing products to our customers. This approach consists of the EHS Achievement Program and the EHS Audit Program. Both programs are applied with the same level of rigor to all sites globally, whether in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region or the United States.

EHS Achievement Ladder

News

  • TGen Study

    LifeTechnologies Corporation announced that it is collaborating with the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and US Oncology to sequence the genomes of 14 patients afflicted with triple negative breast cancer whose tumors have progressed despite multiple other therapies. The goal of this first-of-its-kind research collaboration is to demonstrate whether genomic sequencing of cancer tissue can provide clues for treatment strategies for these individuals.

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  • SMS Technology

    Life Technologies Corporation announced early stage results from its single molecule sequencing (SMS) technology. The technology promises to combine virtually unlimited continuous long read lengths with unmatched accuracy to deliver targeted genomic sequence data in a matter of hours, paving the way for sequencing to become a commonplace tool in research laboratories and clinical settings worldwide.

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  • SOLiD PI ANNOUNCED

    Life Technologies Corporation today announced plans for the Applied Biosystems SOLiD(TM) PI System, a new highly accurate, flexible and easy-to-use genomic analysis platform that will bring next-generation sequencing within the grasp of all life science research laboratories worldwide. Early customer adoption of the SOLiD PI System is expected to begin in the second half of 2010.

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