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GlaxoSmithKline 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.

R&D chemical development
By using more focused and data-driven development, GlaxoSmithKline can significantly improve the efficiency of new manufacturing processes. This will make the transfer of these processes to manufacturing more streamlined and give GlaxoSmithKline a competitive advantage. CEHS supports R&D Chemical and Pharmaceutical Development in their design of efficient manufacturing processes by providing tools and supporting documentation through the Eco-design toolkit.

New product supply
To promote the use of safer and more environmentally benign processes, the CEHS Product Stewardship team identifies EHS hazards associated with the use of specific chemicals and processes so that research & development scientists and engineers can appropriately assess EHS risks when selecting materials and designing synthetic and pharmaceutical processes used to make active pharmaceutical ingredients and finished products.

Engineering, technology and capital management (ETCM)
ETCM ensures that our ethical and legal requirements are incorporated into new production systems and that capital projects are efficiently designed with EHS considerations built in. The alliance between ETCM and CEHS facilitates development of effective and efficient processes that reduce resource consumption, minimise waste and protect employees.

Quality
The Quality organisation is a natural partner for CEHS because improved quality reduces the amount of rejected product, which means less waste, and therefore, reduced environmental impact. By sharing information from their audits of manufacturing operations the EHS and Quality groups enhance the opportunities to improve the quality of our products and reduce the environmental impact.

Operational excellence
The lean sigma (a combination of lean manufacturing and six sigma) approach to operational excellence that eliminates unnecessary steps and reduces variability is at the heart of the GlaxoSmithKline culture. Aligning EHS with Operational Excellence principles helps GlaxoSmithKline reduce waste and protect employees.

Global manufacturing and supply
EHS is integral to all manufacturing operations. 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.

Human resources
To support GlaxoSmithKline employees and ensure EHS is integrated into employee management, CEHS has a close working relationship with EHM, part of the Corporate Human Resources organisation.

Sales and marketing
To integrate EHS into sales and marketing activities, the CEHS Commercial Support team works to expand EHS programmes, such as driver safety and office safety, into this area of the business.

Corporate communications
CEHS integrates EHS messages with corporate messages to build environment, health and safety into the GlaxoSmithKline culture and contributes to policy statements on environment, health and safety issues. The Corporate Responsibility report now integrates EHS information.

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