GlaxoSmithKline has set targets for improving environment, health and safety performance to be reached by the end of 2005, starting from a baseline set in 2001. These improvement targets are an integral part of the EHS Plan for Excellence.

Targets are based on practical operational improvement plans and forecasts. All GSK manufacturing operations contributed information about environment, health and safety improvement plans and forecasts. The resulting proposals for company targets were compared with benchmarking information and closely reviewed by environment, health and safety professionals, senior managers and management teams throughout the business.

Each GSK operation has improvement targets based on its own unique EHS profile and includes identified local projects so that site resources can focus on areas of greatest potential impact. Sites with the largest impact have the most aggressive reduction targets, while sites with smaller impact have continuous improvement targets. In this way each operation has targets, tailored to its impact, that should result in GSK achieving the overall company targets.