Corporate Responsibility Report 2008

About our reporting

Welcome to our 2008 Corporate Responsibility Report.

This year we have reported on our activities and performance online, providing easy access to information on key issues plus the ability to build a custom version of our 2008 Report.

How we report

We report our corporate responsibility activities and performance annually. This website contains a detailed account of our CR policies and performance in 2008. Selected performance information can also be downloaded, read more about how to use this website.

We also publish Corporate Responsibility Highlights which provides an overview of our approach to CR. It is available in print.

Data relate to worldwide operations for the calendar year 2008, except where stated.

Environmental data are collected from all 79 of our Pharmaceutical, Consumer Healthcare and Nutritionals manufacturing sites, 14 of the 15 vaccines sites (one is not yet in operation), 22 of 31 Pharmaceutical and Consumer Healthcare R&D sites including five whose environmental data are included with their host sites (nine are too small or too new to warrant collection of environmental data in 2008), the US and UK headquarters buildings and 15 smaller offices and distribution centres.

Injury and illness data are collected from all 79 of our Pharmaceutical, Consumer Healthcare and Nutritionals manufacturing sites, 14 of the 15 vaccines sites (one is not yet in operation), 29 of 31 Pharmaceutical and Consumer Healthcare R&D sites (two are considered too new to start reporting), the US and UK headquarters sites, 18 offices and sales groups with more than one million hours worked, and 46 of the smaller offices and distribution centres.

Data in the environment and health and safety sections are independently assured by SGS.

We use external guidelines to inform our reporting where relevant. We do not base our report on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines but we have produced a GRI index to show which elements of the guidelines are covered in the report and to aid comparison with other company reports. We have also joined the UN Global Compact and have provided an index to show how we are reporting in line with Global Compact expectations.

Brandnames appearing in italics throughout this report are trademarks either owned by and/or licensed to GSK or associated companies.