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This EHS report covers the calendar year 2002 and is the second
produced by GlaxoSmithKline after the merger of Glaxo Wellcome and
SmithKline Beecham. The environmental data in the Performance
section covers manufacturing and R&D operations worldwide,
since they are the primary sources of emissions and waste, as well
as some aspects of our commercial operations. We have included the
partial year information in the report whenever this is feasible
for manufacturing and R&D facilities that have closed since
last year.
We collected injury and illness data from all manufacturing and
R&D operations and from most office and sales locations. Between
2001 and 2002 we collected data from an additional 25 office and
sales locations. We may be missing 10 more small sales and office
locations and we will continue to try to establish basic reporting
from all locations.
For the first time this year we have worked with our key contractor
manufacturers to collect EHS data. We will include it in our EHS
report once we have verified that our collection methods are understood
and yielding dependable measures.
This report is prepared by the Corporate Environment, Health and
Safety (CEHS) department at GSK by Nancy English, PhD, Director,
EHS Global Impact Assessment and Reporting with contributions from
Corporate Employee Health Management and many staff members.
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Underpinning all of the framework, providing support
for all programmes and enabling collection and analysis
of the data in this report is a state of the art intranet
system that we have called the myEHS Community web site
or myEHS for short. It has three main functions:
- It is primarily a comprehensive EHS information
management system that provides sites with tools for
managing all of their EHS responsibilities and measuring
their progress.
- It is the repository for EHS Standards, Guidelines,
Tools and other EHS information as well as the central
point for EHS-related announcements, news and listings
of events as well as a place to share good EHS practices
and ideas.
- It is the central collection point for EHS data
provided in this report and used by GSK and its business
units to monitor progress and drive continuous improvement.
In addition to serving as the central collection point
for the data, myEHS functionality includes:
- Creation and distribution of MSDS.
- Eco-design, occupational hygiene, hazard assessment
and other tools.
- For sites that are currently ISO certified or that
are in the process of ISO certification, myEHS provides
all of the support functionality needed for the required
documentation and EHS management.
Structurally, myEHS is a combination of two commercial
software packages, several collaborative working tools
used within GSK and other information technologies.
2002 was the second year for myEHS although elements
of it, such as the MSDS system, have been in use in
heritage organisations for several years. Its capabilities,
especially the range of capabilities for managing site
EHS issues, are not yet fully used. However, as the
functions and capabilities are integrated into the way
people work and they come to depend on it, it should
become even more useful.
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