A safe and healthy environment is actively promoted through management systems designed to create and sustain a 'safety culture' so that safety becomes an integral part of all activities at Strides.

• Continuous training and education for all employees so as to improve awareness and ensure implementation of environment, health and safety policies and objectives
• Employee involvement through the concept of Safety Committees
• Highlighting and celebrating Special Days that reinforce a commitment to Environmental Health & Safety like Earth Day, Safety Week, World Health Day and so on
• Tool Box talks for contractors and others engaged in high risk jobs
• Environmental Health & Safety is mandated in all Standard Operating Procedures
• Manufacturing units are equipped with highly sophisticated effluent treatment plants and treated water is used to maintain the gardens and lawns
• Airborne dust and vapour are controlled by providing adequate engineering control measures in the form of local dust/vapour extraction points
• Suitable respiratory protection (mask or air stream helmet) is provided to workers to cover the residual risks of exposure
• Regular workplace monitoring to assess the levels of air borne dusts and vapours through international industrial hygienists
• Aggressive energy monitoring programme to reduce the carbon foot print and impact on greenhouse gases.

• Around 90-100 kilolitres of effluent water is recycled at the Bangalore facility every day, part of which is used to maintain the gardens at Strides' corporate office
• All our manufacturing facilities have zero discharge status
• ISO 14001 certification for our oral dosage form facility for maintaining high standards of environment health safety compliance
• Implementation of isolator technology for high containment areas
• Waste heat recovery systems to minimise impact on the environment
• Well-equipped gymnasium at the corporate office to promote health awareness