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Training and awareness

We have a wide range of awareness-raising and training initiatives on EHS, supported by a detailed EHS section on our intranet (called myEHS) which includes policies, standards, guidelines, tools, examples of best practice and news. See more on myEHS.

Our Chief Executive Officers’ EHS Excellence Awards scheme recognises outstanding efforts in EHS and helps raise the profile of EHS issues around the business.

We prepare regular EHS bulletins which are distributed to all sites for posting on bulletin boards. Three bulletins were circulated in 2004. We also include articles on EHS in our internal magazine (GSK spirit), our manufacturing magazine and site newsletters.

GSK has two key awareness raising events - an Environment Week held every June (to coincide with the World Environment Day) and an annual Health and Safety Week held every October (to coincide with the European Health and Safety week and Fire Safety Awareness Month in the United States). Information kits are sent to all sites to help them develop ideas and plan activities. In 2004, over 7,600 employees from 65 sites in 27 countries took part in the Environmental Week. Examples of activities included tree planting, computer recycling, a no car day, and pledges to reduce energy use. We also ran a competition during Earth Week for the best environmental initiative, and funded the winner on a two-week conservation expedition run by Earthwatch. See how we manage health and safety for more about the Health and Safety Week.

In the summer of 2004 we held our annual regional meetings for EHS professionals in manufacturing to share information and best practice. These events were attended by more than 100 EHS professionals.

EHS training takes place at site level, in accordance with our EHS Standard on training. A range of training materials are available on our intranet site.

See more on EHS communication.

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