AMD's Austin Fab 25 Receives Two Additional Environmental, Health and Safety Certifications.Business Editors AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2002 AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AMD) today announced that the company's Fab 25 manufacturing facility in Austin has received two new certifications for key voluntary standards for environmental and occupational health and safety management systems, the ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 14001 standard and the OHSAS OHSAS Occupational Health and Safety Management System OHSAS Occupational Health & Safety Assessment Series OHSAS Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Scheme (UK) 18001 specification. AMD's Fab 25 is among a select group of manufacturing facilities in Texas to receive third-party certification to both of these rigorous international standards. ISO (International Organization for Standardization International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Organization for determining standards in most technical and nontechnical fields. Founded in Geneva in 1947, its membership includes more than 100 countries. ) 14001 is the leading international standard for environmental management systems. OHSAS (Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series) 18001 is becoming one of the most internationally recognized specifications for occupational health and safety management systems. These certifications, provided by Underwriters Laboratories Underwriters Laboratories Inc. is a U.S. not-for-profit, privately owned and operated product safety testing and certification organization. Based in Northbrook, Illinois, UL develops standards and test procedures for products, materials, components, assemblies, tools and Inc., verify that AMD's Fab 25 has robust systems in place to identify and manage potential environmental impacts and occupational health and safety risks, and to pursue continual improvement Continual Improvement (also called incremental improvement or staircase improvement) is a process or productivity improvement tool intended to have a stable and consistent growth and improvement of all the segments of a process or processes. . Fab 25 has a number of initiatives in place to meet its environmental, health and safety goals, including recycling and water reuse programs, extensive ergonomic training, and an injury and illness prevention team. "AMD established a set of aggressive internal standards governing our worldwide environmental, health and safety practices well before the introduction of certifications such as ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001," said Rich Weigand, AMD director of Environmental Health and Safety. "These third-party certifications highlight AMD's long-standing commitment to providing a safe workplace for employees and protecting our neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. communities. In addition, international certifications are increasingly important to our global customers and partners. AMD customers can be confident that AMD has world-class risk management systems in place to protect their supply chains." All of AMD's manufacturing facilities meet the ISO 14001 standard. AMD's Singapore and Bangkok sites are also OHSAS 18001 certified. AMD Environmental, Health and Safety Program AMD's Environmental, Health and Safety Program embodies the company's commitment to enhance the quality of life and protect the environment of the communities in which it does business. Since 1995, AMD has reported on the status of its environmental, health & safety programs in its Sustainability Progress Report which is available online at www.amd.com/ehs. About AMD AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. for the personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD, a Fortune 500 and Standard & Poor's 500 company, produces microprocessors, Flash memory devices, and support circuitry for communications and networking applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, Calif., AMD had revenues of $3.9 billion in 2001 (NYSE:AMD). AMD on the Web For more AMD news and product information, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.amd.com/news/virtualpress/index.html. Additional press releases are available at www.amd.com/news/news.html. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other product names used in this publication are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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