Aligning with our company's business mission to protect and promote health, Merck is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for its employees and contractors around the world.

We want to ensure that our employees and contractors return home from work every day healthy and safe. As part of this commitment, Merck expects each and every employee to conduct his or her job without compromising personal safety and health, or those of other members of our workforce and the communities in which we operate.

Merck provides employees with a wide variety of health programs reflecting the highest standards of medical care and regulatory requirements. We are also committed to providing a safe working environment by taking preventive actions and closely tracking workplace accidents, injuries and illnesses, so we can address problems promptly and work toward eliminating occupational injuries and illnesses.

Merck believes there are many benefits to this approach. First, health is a key ingredient for optimal workforce performance. Whether at work or at home, sickness or injury often can have an impact on a person's ability to perform and contribute effectively. Because Merck's business is health, we believe we must lead by example. We also believe that a constructive approach to employee health helps to recruit and retain top talent.

Finally, understanding what health issues most affect Merck's workforce can help us make the right investments to improve the health of our people.

Since environmental, health and safety (EHS) matters are closely connected, we manage them collaboratively across numerous Merck functions. A key element of our EHS management system is the monitoring of health and safety risks and performance. Health and safety performance is an important consideration in our annual assessment of scorecard performance, which is tied to compensation.

In this section, we provide data on Employee Health and Employee Safety.

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