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Awareness

To raise awareness of strategic environment, health and safety issues and to encourage a more proactive EHS culture, GSK sites participate in two annual, voluntary programmes. The first, EarthWeek, held in June to coincide with the World Environment Day, encourages employees to think about their impact on the environment. The second, Health and Safety Week, held in October to coincide with the European Health and Safety week, encourages them to address potential risks at work and at home. Communication kits for both events provide publicity and activity ideas. Sites report their programmes each year and the level of participation and range of activities is publicised throughout GSK. In 2004, over 7,600 employees from 65 sites in 27 countries took part in EarthWeek and over 13,800 employees from 67 sites in 29 countries took part in the Health and Safety Week activities.

There are five EHS publications that are available electronically and in print.

• The EHS Plan for Excellence, GSK’s 10-year strategy for EHS and its yearly action plan are published primarily for GSK senior management and EHS professionals within GSK, but they are also made available for external stakeholder consultation.
• The EHS Report, provides a printed version of the EHS information on this website. It is primarily for external stakeholders who specifically request printed information.
• The annual CEO’s EHS Excellence Award Yearbook, primarily for EHS site-based management, is a vehicle for sharing the innovative EHS practices of sites that win the year’s awards.
• The graphic and copy-light “EHS Bulletin”, is designed for posting on bulletin boards and is published three times a year. It targets employees who do not use e-mail or the intranet as a part of their daily work and is written to inform about the relationship of Corporate EHS programmes to site EHS activities.
• A wall calendar featuring EHS activities and achievements of GSK sites worldwide is distributed annually to GSK’s EHS professionals. The photographs and captions highlight GSK people whose activities have advanced GSK’s long-term EHS Plan for Excellence.
• Creation and distribution of MSDS