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Corporate Responsibility Report 2008

Managing environment, health, safety and sustainability

We manage our environment, health, safety and sustainability issues using a management system aligned with recognised management system standards such as ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.

Our management system is based on a structured framework that starts with a vision and policy. The policy is supported by standards, guidance materials, tools, training, recognition and audits that assist the business to manage environment, health, safety and sustainability at their sites throughout key business operations. Systematic audits assess sites’ adoption of a management systems approach to manage their risks.

The framework defines our:

• EHSS vision and policy which set out the broad principles we expect our operations to meet
• EHSS standards that outline specific requirements for our company based on our EHSS risks. These meet or exceed applicable laws and regulations and are consistent with the international standards ISO14001 and OHSAS 18001 based on a management systems approach
• EHSS guidelines that support the EHSS standards by providing further information on the requirements of the standards and setting out an approved approach for achieving compliance. They incorporate good practice from both within and outside GSK. A wide range of information supplements the EHSS guidelines. This includes technical information and training materials to help our employees understand and implement our EHSS management system
• Audits that assess the implementation of management systems
• Reward and recognition that recognises teams who have made outstanding progress towards achieving our goals

The framework includes a Plan for Excellence that sets out our strategy to improve our EHSS performance to 2015.

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