People and Communities
- Increased the overall number of employee medical check-ups by 19%, using local health programs and prevention campaigns based on highlighting more common local risks (melanoma, obesity, smoking, allergies, etc.);
- Maintained focus on safety performance with a recordable case rate of 0.17, while fully involving subcontractors in ST’s “Safety First program”, leading to a 12% decrease of the subcontractors’ accident rate from 0.4 in 2015 to 0.35 in 2016;
- Reduced risks in the Labor and Human Rights domain through local self-assessment, while alsoreinforcing controls across our supply chain. Together these efforts have produced an Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) Code of Conduct self-assessment score of 93.9%, 4.2 percentage points above the industry average;
- In addition, ST encouraged good global citizenship through contributions to 307 local initiatives, involving almost 30 sites in 15 countries. These efforts included ST employees donating more than 125,000 hours of company time to community-based activities and charities. Supported by ST, the ST Foundation with its Digital Unify program increased by 37% the number of trainees in 2016 compared to the past year, reaching 403,150 trainees since the beginning of the program in 2003.
Environment & Operations
- Reduced ST’s water footprint by more than 73% since 1994. The score of B maintained in the CDP’s water-disclosure program in 2016 ranked ST above the industry average for its approach to water-related risk assessment;
- Cut Energy footprint in half and Carbon footprint per wafer by 75% in 20 years. In 2016, ST continued to demonstrate its commitment to sustainable energy sourcing by responsibly purchasing more than 23% of the energy from renewable sources, 5% more than in 2015;
- Reused, recovered, or sent for recycling 91.3% of the waste generated through operations, in line with best-in-class industry standards;
- Increased the proportion of Responsible Products from 27% of the products registered in 2015 to 34% at the end of 2016. We define responsible products as innovative products that provide clear environmental and social benefits;
- More than 99% of the smelters in our supply chain were Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI) validated by the end of 2016.
For more information on ST’s approach to Sustainability is available here.
