Principles and Other Priorities - United Therapeutics

Our People

Ethics and Compliance
Workplace Safety
Supply Chain Management
Governance

Ethics and Compliance

One of our strategic objectives is founded in ethics and compliance: Achieve our goals by doing the right thing and using the highest ethical standards.

Doing the right thing is a core aspect of our culture that has been translated into our ethics and compliance policies and programs. We have built a first-class compliance foundation to live and breathe these values, including our five core compliance principles:

We have a Code of Conduct that serves as the foundation for our compliance program, and which sets forth our expectations with respect to acting in an ethical and legally compliant manner, including specific provisions on interacting with healthcare professionals, preventing bribery and corruption, and maintaining scientific integrity.

In addition, we have robust compliance policies that provide more guidance on specific matters for relevant employees. All of our employees and members of our Board of Directors receive training on our Code of Conduct. Our Board, employees, and relevant vendors also receive healthcare compliance-related training specific to their role. We also maintain an Ethics and Compliance Hotline with the ability for anonymous reporting.

Workplace Safety

United Therapeutics is safe place to work. Our continuous improvement approach to workplace safety utilizes project reviews, proactive engagement, compliance training, and medical surveillance throughout our organization. Business leaders incorporate health and safety engineering practices in current processes and new projects. We also encourage employees at all levels to actively contribute to our positive safety culture through, among other things, participation on our safety-focused committees. A compliance-based training approach, including in-person and online learning, builds essential safety skills. Through a collaborative approach to workplace safety, there were zero OSHA recordable/reportable incidents for our U.S. operations in 2019. This is significantly below the incidence rate of 1.5 per 100 full-time workers for our industry.

Supply Chain Management

We maintain a rigorously compliant GxP Quality & Compliance program covering those aspects of our supply chain that could impact the quality and safety of our products. Our GxP program also contains a rigorous auditing and vendor selection approach, using both internal and third-party expert resources.

Governance

We have a strong tone at the top that permeates throughout United Therapeutics, with leaders who care deeply about improving the lives of patients, empowering our people, and making our planet and the communities in which we live and work better. We are guided by doing the right thing, while also relentlessly pushing to always do better. We also have an active, engaged, and diverse Board of Directors, which oversees our key business strategies and objectives, our risk management process, our compliance program, and key aspects of our corporate social responsibility program.

Our People

Our Principles and Other Priorities

Ethics and Compliance

Workplace Safety

Supply Chain Management

Governance

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