Policy on Health, Safety, Environment and Quality.

At Bayer MaterialScience, it is our core belief that safety, environmental protection, product and process quality and commercial efficiency are factors of equal importance in achieving our corporate objectives. Consequently, we respect and support the objectives of Responsible Care and Sustainable Development as a commitment for management and as a responsibility shared by each employee.

Our Principles

The health and safety of our employees, customers and stakeholders play a fundamental role in our business decisions.

	Our products are designed to improve the quality of life. Production, handling, transport and use of our products must be safe and after proper use, our products should be safe for recycling or disposal.
	The safe, secure and reliable operation of our plants is essential to the health and well being of our employees and neighbors and is therefore essential to our success.
	Everyone at Bayer MaterialScience is required to continuously improve occupational health and safety performance in his or her workplace.

At Bayer MaterialScience, we regard it is as our responsibility to present and future generations to continually improve our environmental performance.

	Every employee is expected to contribute to the prevention or minimization of emissions and waste.
	Economic and ecologic considerations encourage us to use resources, materials and energy, conscientiously.

We strive to continually improve with appropriate resources the quality of our activities, products and services to the satisfaction of our customers and to the benefit of ourselves and our stakeholders. We also unconditionally respect all legal requirements and internal directives. To this end, health, environment, safety and quality objectives are expressed as specific and measurable targets and their achievement is supported with the same diligence as economic goals.

We seek open dialog with our stakeholders on our policy, principles, objectives and targets. By actively supporting this dialog, Bayer MaterialScience will be regarded as an ethically and socially responsible organization.