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The Chief Executive Officer's Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
Excellence Awards Programme promotes improvements in GSK's use of
human, environmental and economic resources by rewarding innovation,
effective over the long term, that can be shared within GSK. A panel
of experts, drawn from academia, government and non-government organisations,
and the GSK Board of Directors, recommends award winners from a
list of finalist projects prepared for them by a review committee
internal to GSK. Nominations of projects to be considered in the
programme may come from any part of GSK's organisation.
The programme makes awards in three categories. Initiatives that
foster responsible use of human, environmental and economic resources
with the local community may be awarded an EHS Community Partnership
Award. Programmes that demonstrate improvements in EHS management
and performance and heightened EHS awareness may win an EHS Initiative
Award. Projects that benefit environment, health and safety through
new and efficient chemistry or technology may win a Green Chemistry/Green
Technology Award. Each winning site is recognised with a specially
designed trophy and the opportunity to make a donation to a charitable
organisation selected by the winning team.
In 2002, the first year of the awards programme, 67 applications
were received from 40 sites in 20 countries. The winners in the
first year were:
Community Partnership
- First Prize: "Helping Hands To Small Businesses"
Ulverston, UK. GMS Primary Supply
EHS Initiative
- First Prize: "Innovative Health and Safety Concepts
and Approach for Construction of New Horlicks Facility" Sonepat,
India. GMS Consumer Healthcare.
- Second Prize: "Waste Management Projects at Ankleshwar"
Ankleshwar, India. GMS Primary Supply.
- Third Prize: "Leave Work The Way You Came - A Total
Approach to Safety in a Manufacturing Organisation" Aiken,
USA. GMS Consumer Healthcare.
- Special Commendation: "Integral
Waste Management System" Bogota, Colombia. GMS Consumer
Healthcare.
- Special Commendation: "Safety And Environmental
Achievements in Demolition And Construction Activities For Augmentin
XR Tablet" Quality Road, Singapore. GMS Primary Supply.
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Winners in each category receive a trophy
based on the shape of a Möbius strip, a one sided surface
having a continuous edge, chosen to suggest the unity of a committed
team and the continual challenge of EHS improvement. |
Green Chemistry/Green Technology
- There were no Green Chemistry/Green Technology awards made in
2002.
In 2002 winning project teams nominated the following charitable
organisations to receive donations: American Cancer Society, USA;
Charities Aid Foundation, India; Missionaries of Charity, India;
and Ulverston Life Education Support Group, UK. Members of the external
selection panel who helped in the adjudication of the awards selected
the following organisations to receive donations from GSK on their
behalf: Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA; Fairlynch Art Centre
and Museum, UK; Millview Resource Centre, Ireland; Otter Valley
Association, UK; Oxfam, UK.
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"Helping Hands To Small Businesses" first
place winner in the EHS Community Partnership category
of the CEO's EHS Excellence Awards described a £326K
project to deliver waste minimisation and environmental
management improvements to small businesses throughout
the County of Cumbria, UK which was initiated by the
GSK Ulverston site. They developed it with private and
public sector partner organisations. Over a three-year
period from April 2002 - March 2005, this project will
support small businesses to promote waste minimisation.
It will also encourage the use of formal environmental
management systems to improve small businesses' ability
to respond to environmental legislation and supply chain
pressures. The panel of external judges felt this effort
illustrated GSK's leadership in environmental matters,
social responsibility, involvement with environmental
management systems and the nurturing of small businesses
through economic and environmental improvement.
Ulverston, one of the largest primary manufacturing
sites in GSK, produces antibiotics by fermentation and
has extensive chemical processing facilities, solvent
recovery, incineration and energy generation. Ulverston
currently employs 1,100 staff in a town with a population
of 12,000. The site has a very high profile in the area
as a major employer and in terms of the site environmental
footprint. It produces a local environmental performance
report that is delivered to all houses in Ulverston.
In addition it has a site liaison committee which includes
local residents, town councillors and the Environment
Agency.
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