July is GEPS Safety Month!

Please read the following message from Rich Lubert, GEPS EHS General Manager:

Ladies & Gentlemen

July is EHS/Security month throughout our business.  This is a great 
opportunity for each site to complete a number of business critical employee 
training and awareness initiatives.  Your efforts to date have ensured that 
our business continues to improve dramatically in EHS, security and medical 
areas.  The EHS month, with a variety of focus programs, will enable the 
business to make a quantum leap forward.  We have developed a set of program 
expectations for each site to roll out over the month.  Most of these are not 
complicated, often requiring only a few minutes of employee time to update 
records or complete training.  Other programs will drive increased employee 
awareness and commitment, assisting in improvements beyond the month long 
effort.  This will take everyone,s commitment and attention to be 
successful.   We will be sending out details on each item in next few days.  
Please work with your local sites to assign team members to each role/program 
to ease the implementation 

Thanks in advance

Rich Lubert

The GEWE EHS department, along with other GEPS companies, has put together a 
schedule of safety events.  Please see below:

Week of July 1
Create and Present a Safety Meeting. Departments (larger departments can be 
broken into smaller groups) create a topic of their concern and submit as 
posters, videos, dramatization, etc. Safety meeting presentations will begin 
on July 30. Judging will be based on topic, creativity, presentation and 
employee involvement.  All participating departments will enjoy a pizza party 
or BBQ on site and winning presentation(s) will enjoy an off site lunch.

Week of July 15
Fast Fact Sheets. A fact sheet will be distributed to each employee as a 
refresher on the various EHS plans and policies.  The handout will be a handy 
quick reference tool in case an emergency arises.

Week of July 22
EHS Kick Off Meetings.  On Tuesday, July 23 and Wednesday, July 24 Jim 
Heenan, GEWE EHS Manager, will be conducting EHS kickoff meetings which is 
mandatory for all employees. The EHS Integration Training will cover GE's 
specific company-wide EHS goals for 2002. It also illustrates the alignment 
between the goals and the objectives of Policy 20.3 as well as the corporate 
program requirements linked to each objective. 

Week of July 29
Quarterly Office Safety Meetings.  With the start of a new quarter, it,s time 
again for an OSHA required office safety meeting.  Meetings for the North 
building will be on Tuesday, July 30, in the northwest lunchroom.  Meetings 
for the South building will be on Wednesday, July 31, in the Safety Trailer.  
Available meeting times for both days will be 8:00am, 9:00am, 10:00am, 
11:00am, 1:00pm, 2:00pm.  Further meeting details will be available soon.