GSK has established functional and reporting relationships for Corporate Environment, Health and Safety (CEHS) and Employee Health Management (EHM) to encourage the integration of EHS throughout its business.

Research & development (R&D) EHS Group
To support a unified and consistent approach to EHS across the company and to facilitate integration of EHS into the R&D agenda, the EHS function in R&D reports with a dotted line to CEHS.

R&D Chemical Development
By using more focused and data-driven development, GSK can significantly improve efficiency of new processes. This will make the transfer of processes to manufacturing more streamlined and give GSK a competitive advantage. CEHS supports Strategic Technologies within Chemical Development by providing supporting documentation and tools.

New Product Supply
To support processes that are safer and more environmentally benign, CEHS' Product Stewardship team identifies occupational hazards and risks and environmental aspects of specific chemicals and processes so that R&D scientists and engineers can use this information when selecting materials and processes for producing active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Global Manufacturing and Supply
To ensure that EHS issues are integrated into manufacturing decisions, the Vice President of CEHS has a dotted line reporting relationship to the President of Global Manufacturing and Supply.

Sales and Marketing
To integrate EHS into sales and marketing activities, CEHS' Global Business Support team investigates the need for expanded EHS programmes, such as driver safety and office safety, in this area of the business.

Partnerships with Support Organisations

• Engineering, Technology and Capital Management (ETCM) - The partnership with ETCM ensures that capital projects are efficiently designed with EHS considerations built in.
• Quality - CEHS uses quality principles in managing EHS and we cooperate with the quality organisation in the approach to management of EHS.
• Human Resources - To support GSK employees and ensure EHS is integrated into employee management, CEHS has a close working relationship with EHM, part of the Corporate Human Resources organisation.
• Operational Excellence - GSK's business enhancement programme, "Operational Excellence" is applied to EHS programmes and incorporates EHS into process improvement projects.
• Corporate Communications - CEHS integrates EHS messages with corporate messages to build environment, health and safety into the GSK culture.
• Global Government Advocacy and Public Policy (GGAPP) - CEHS and EHM work with the GGAPP organisation in the Corporate Social Responsibility programme and contribute to policy statements on environment, health and safety issues.