Company Policies

GHS recognizes that it has a responsibility to the environment beyond legal and regulatory requirements. We are committed to reducing our environmental impact and continually improving our performance as an integral part of our business strategy and operating methods.

In order to achieve this, we adopt a multi-strand strategy to minimize the environmental impact of every aspect of our business operation.

The Quality & Compliance Manager/Supervisor is responsible for maintaining the relevant training, audits and certification regarding this environmental policy and CEO&COO of company are the decision makers for any subject of this policy.

GHS conducts regular supplier approval process within its procedure to also make sure that the suppliers are working with GHS are comply with EMS requirements and matching with GHS’s EMS standards.

GHS also ensures that all virtual manufacturing partner/s are comply with EMS requirements.

This policy applies to our estates based in:

Unit K3, Pitfield, Kiln Farm, Milton Keynes, MK11 3LW, United Kingdom

We are following and implementing all requirements of ISO 14001:2015 within the company and all interested parties as we are certified to ISO14001:2015 by QMS Certificate Number: 378762021, Expire Date: 29/07/2027.

This includes all clauses of the standard but not limited to:

1. Understanding the organization and its context
2. Understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties
3. Determining the scope of the environmental management system
4. Environmental management system
5. Leadership
6. Organizational roles, responsibilities, and authorities
7. Planning, Environmental objectives and planning to achieve them
8. Environmental aspects
9. Support
10. Operation
11. Performance evaluation
12. Improvement

Our commitment and Objectives

• Strive to continuously improve our environmental performance and integrate UK regulations and legislations into our business where possible.
• Reduce our consumption of resources and improve efficiency in the use of these resources.
• Manage waste generated from our business operations according to the principles of reduction, reuse, and recycling.
• Manage our business operations to prevent pollution in all forms.
• We do provide regular training to all staff, and we do perform internal audits to track and maintain the ISO14001 level competence of the staff.
• We do perform regular meetings to discuss the inputs and outputs of environmental policy.
• If an issue detected against our policy, we do raise an NCA form to investigate it (against transport issues, Procurement of Goods and/or Services, construction, staff etc.)
• Pursue opportunities to minimise the environmental impact of our business operations.
• Review our Environmental Policy on a regular basis to ensure that it is properly aligned with current UK regulations and legislation.
• Comply with applicable legal requirements and other requirements to which the Company subscribes which relate to its environmental aspects.
• To include the consideration of environmental issues in all business strategies and initiatives.
• Senior management are committed to ensure that protection of the environment is firmly embedded in both the company’s and all employees’ culture and will endeavor to influence its suppliers and customers in a similar strategic environmental manner.
• Consider the wider global impact of all our activities including those of our suppliers’ customers and other stakeholders.
• Educate, train, and motivate employees to carry out tasks in an environmentally responsible manner and ensure that a continuous professional development strategy remains core to our business goals.
• Encourage environmental protection among suppliers and subcontractors.
• To investigate the feasibility of influencing its suppliers, customers and third parties with consideration to life cycle impacts of their aspects and activities.

To achieve this commitment, we are carrying out the following:

Paper

We aim to be a paperless business operation by implementing the following:

• The use of hard copy marketing material is kept to an absolute minimum. Electronic versions are used instead unless the customer specifically asks for a hard copy.
• All invoices will be emailed to customers instead of sending paper copies, unless specified otherwise.
• We use electronic job sheets where it’s possible, instead of paper ones. This is not only better for the environment but also improves efficiency.
• All quality procedures, sales quotations and other day-to-day business documents are accessed by staff electronically via our internal server. Hard copies are no longer kept.
• Any paper or cardboard that cannot be re-used is recycled.

Energy and water

• Use of ultra-efficient LED lightbulbs throughout the premises.
• Use of motion sensor lighting ensuring that lights are not left on in certain areas of the building.
• All PCs automatically go into sleep mode after 15 minutes of inactivity.
• The installation of double glazing in all parts of the building.
• We use two A grade energy efficient boilers to heat our premises. The heating is automatically turned off when our premises are closed (e.g., during weekends and Bank Holidays).
• Installed water efficient toilets and self-closing, non-concussive taps throughout the building.
• Our company uses very little water already. However, we aim to reduce this further still.

Waste Disposal (Estimated and targeted)

GHS produce five streams of waste in the following approximate proportions:

• Paper/cardboard/packaging (35%)

• Landfill (40%)

• Metal (10%)

• Green waste (5%)

• Plastic (10%)

• All paper, cardboard, plastic, and tins are recycled.

• Electronic components are recycled.

• Old IT equipment such as laptops, desktop PCs, printers, computer screens, keyboards and mice are responsibly recycled.

• Metalwork or other equipment is disposed.

• Green waste is disposed of.

• All used batteries are recycled.

Office Supplies

• We only use recycled paper which is PEFC certified.
• Where is possible, we tried to have our supplier of office stationery and consumables to be ISO 14001 certified.
• All stationary supplies are monitored to minimize wastage.
• All pens are disposed.
• All printer cartridges are recycled.

Equipment

• We advise customers on the running costs of their equipment, providing them with information on average power consumption and heat output (where applicable).
• We always endeavor to supply equipment from environmentally conscious suppliers. Many of our suppliers are ISO 14001 compliant.

Supply Chain

• Where possible, we will always try and purchase products locally where the cost and quality are the same or better. This will not only ensure that the carbon footprint of the products we supply is minimized, but it also fits in well with our ‘Buy British’ ethos.
• We will place large stock orders with our suppliers in order to minimize the number of shipments and packaging required for those shipments.
• Where possible, we will encourage all customers to consolidate the delivery of new equipment into one single shipment instead of multiple deliveries.
• We will emphasize our own environmental standards when choosing and auditing our suppliers.

Transportation

General

• We use a global supplier for transportation of our goods.
• We consolidate deliveries into as few as possible.

Staff

• As part of the induction training program, all staff undergo environmentally conscious driver training which helps minimize costs to the company and our environmental impact.
• Staff will aim to consolidate work into geographical areas, thus minimizing travel.
• For routine work if needed, staff will, whenever possible, travel to the customer site via public transport.
• The location of our premises is highly sustainable. GHS is conveniently located within the UK and as such has access to excellent public transportation. This means that staff and visitors to our site can arrive by either rail, bus, or tram.
• At the moment staff commute are 30% and 70% are locally, some of them in a walking distance. For the staff that are commuting we are encouraging car sharing.

Maintenance and cleaning

• We have decided to eliminate the use of harsh chemicals and additives for everyday office cleaning.
• We currently use cleaning products that are natural and biodegradable to clean our offices.
• We aim to keep our premises properly maintained and implement new energy-saving technologies whenever possible.

Monitoring and improvement

• We use risk assessments to identify potential environmental hazards.
• We aim to further lower electricity consumption by replacing any existing restricting electricity usage whenever it is not needed.
• Water consumption should be lowered with the installation of water-efficient toilets and self-closing, non-concussive taps throughout the building.

Future plans

• Maintain the achievements we have already made.
• To research the cost and feasibility of installing solar panels on our entire site by 2025.
• Aim for a minimum of Grade C energy performance of our site by 2025.
• Create a wildlife haven for birds and insects in our private courtyard by mid-2025. This will also double as an area for staff to eat their lunch.
• Install reflective vinyl to upstairs windows by summer 2025 to reduce the amount of sun rays coming into the offices. This will lower the temperature and thus minimize the need for air conditioning.
• Set up a cycle to work scheme to benefit the environment and the overall health and wellbeing of our staff.
• Work on Carbon Reduction Plan (CRP) and implement required activities to comply with our EMS.

Policy Owner

The person in charge of this Environmental Policy is the Quality & Compliance Manager/Supervisor with the support of the COO.

Document Control

This Environmental Policy will be regularly reviewed and updated as necessary. Victoria Guney, COO endorses this policy statement and is fully committed to its implementation.

Name	Victoria Guney
Position	COO
Date	02/07/2026
Date for Next Review	01/07/2027
Rev.	01
Amendments from previous	N/A

Issue date: 12/2021

As Global Health and Safety Ltd, the Quality Objectives we pledge:

1. To follow, measure and increase customer satisfaction.
2. To be able to understand customers’ demands and expectations correctly and be a customer satisfaction-oriented company.
3. To utilize Quality Management System to maintain high quality production and customer services.
4. To run up customer satisfaction by targeting to keep call-backs to below 3 per month.
5. To be able to keep customer satisfaction survey results above 25 / 30 and minimise customer complaints.
6. To keep our promise to our customers to deliver high quality products in agreed time frames.
7. To guarantee our stock accuracy at least 90%.
8. To continually improve the effectiveness of our Quality Management System through the use of our policy, objectives, assessment results, corrective and preventative actions, analysed data and regular management review meetings.
9. To maintain and use our Quality Management System in the way that conforms to latest ISO 13485:2016 and ISO 9001:2015 Standards.

Document Control

Name	Victoria Guney
Position	COO
Date	02/07/2026
Date for Review	01/07/2027
Rev.	01

Issue date: 11/2020

1. Introduction

Global Health and Safety Ltd (“the Company”) is fully aware of the responsibility it bears toward its customers, employees, and environment. As such we have given ourselves a strict set of ethical values to guide us in our business. We take social and environmental factors into consideration alongside economic factors in all our business actions.

Social and environmental factors make a significant impact to our aim of ethical code of conduct.

The Global Health & Safety is of the belief that this not only makes commercial sense, but it also has the potential to improve the living and working standards of people around the world.

This policy sets out the detailed requirements and minimum expectations of our policy of ethical code of conduct. This policy addresses the expectation that our staff and suppliers have an innate respect for our ethical standards and that relationships with our suppliers are based on the principle of fair and honest dealings at all times. The principle of fair and honest dealings is extended to all others with whom we do business, including employees, sub-contractors and other third parties and their local communities.

2. Objectives

2.1 Ethical Work Environment

The Global Health & Safety ethical objective is to ensure that people working at GHS, treated with respect and have the following rights with regard to their employment.

• Equal opportunities
• The right to freely choose employment
• Working hours that comply with national laws
• The freedom of association
• Payment of a living wage
• Recognised employment rights
• Recognised safe and healthy working environment

2.2 Sustainability

The Global Health & Safety sustainability objective is to ensure a continued acceptance of the need for all decisions to be made on delivering ethical trading.

3. Commitments

3.1 Legal Compliance

We comply with all laws applicable to our business. We support the principles of the United Nations Global Compact, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the 1998 International Labour Organisation Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, in accordance with national law and practice.

3.2 Right to a Living Wage

We comply with the respective national laws and regulations regarding working hours, wages, and benefits. Wages should not be paid in kind and should be enough to meet the basic needs of the workers. All workers should be provided with written and comprehendible information about their employment conditions in respect to wages before they start employment. Deductions from wages as a disciplinary measure should not be permitted. Deductions from wages covered under national law should only be allowed with the agreed permission of the worker concerned. Any disputes regarding wages should be recorded.

3.3 Environmental Responsibility

We consider our impact on the environment and have a responsible attitude towards environmental issues and to strive towards improving our impact on global pollution.

3.4 Employment

We do not use forced, bonded or involuntary prison labour. All employees have the right to join or form trade unions of their own choosing and, where a significant proportion of the workforce agree, to bargain collectively. Employees’ representatives are not discriminated against and have access to carry out their representative functions in the workplace.

3.5 Avoidance of Excessive Working Hours

Standard working hours must comply with national laws and national industry standards. All employees should not on a regular basis be required to work in excess of 48 hours per week and should be provided with at least one day off for every 7-day period on average. Overtime requested by the employer must be voluntary and must not be requested on a regular basis.

3.6 Elimination of Child Labour

We do not employ children under the age of 15. If national laws or regulations allow children between the ages of 13 and 15 to perform light work, such work is not endorsed under any situation if it would hinder a child from completing compulsory schooling or if the employment would be harmful to their health or development. Children and young persons under 18 shall not be employed at night or in hazardous conditions.

3.7 Provision of Regular Employment

We meet our obligations to our employees under labour or social security laws and regulations arising from the regular employment relationship should not be avoided. We avoid where possible, labour-only contracting, fixed-term contracts, sub-contracting, or apprenticeship schemes where there is no real intent to impart skills or provide regular employment.

3.8 Elimination of Discrimination

We value equality and there should be no grounds to discriminate when hiring, compensation, access to training, promotion, termination or retirement based on race, religion, age, disability, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, union membership or political affiliation.

3.9 Worker ill-treatment

We do not use physical abuse or other harassment or verbal abuse with our workers.

3.10 Anti-Bribery

Bribes shall not be accepted or offered, under any circumstances, or for any reason. Global Health & Safety recognises that bribery is a criminal offence in the UK and shall comply with the Bribery Act 2010, no matter where in the world the act of bribery takes place. Any acts of bribery by those working for The Global Health & Safety, or on our behalf may result in a prosecution in the UK.

3.11 Modern Slavery

Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of our human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person’s liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain.

As a small business we are not legally required to publish any statement, that being said we have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery and we are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business dealings and relationships and to implement and enforce effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in our own business or our supply chain.

We are also committed to ensuring there is transparency in our own business and in our approach to tackling modern slavery throughout our supply chain. We expect the same high standards from all of our contractors, suppliers and other business partners. This policy applies to all persons working for us or on our behalf in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, officers, agency workers, seconded workers, volunteers, agents, contractors, external consultants, third-party representatives and business partners.

4. Sustainable Procurement

4.1 Monitoring and measuring

The Global Health & Safety will ensure we meet the ethical targets set out in this document.

4.2 Working in partnership

The Global Health & Safety will seek out suppliers that share our commitment to high ethical standards. We will offer assistance to our suppliers in raising their ability to meet their social accountability targets. We will develop partnerships with our suppliers and work together to minimise the social impacts of our supply chain.

4.3 Procurement process

The Global Health & Safety will attempt to influence and encourage suppliers in order to create a more reliable marketplace for ethically produced products. Social factors are and will continue to be considered a key part of the purchasing process. Specifically this includes considering where the product is made, by whom and whether the organisation complies with local laws and regulations.

5. Safe and Healthy Working Conditions

The Global Health & Safety is to provide a safe and healthy working environment which is regulated to international standards and the prevailing knowledge of the industry. The Global Health & Safety expects put in place preventative action to prevent accidents, injury to health and minimise the causes of hazards inherent in the working practice and environment.

The Global Health & Safety provide workers with suitable and sufficient health and safety training so they are fully aware of the hazards associated with the work environment and the correct practices required to minimise the risks.

The Global Health & Safety provide suitable and adequate welfare facilities including toilet facilities, drinking water and food storage where required. Global Health & Safety expects our suppliers to assign a senior management representative responsibility for health and safety.

6. Best Practice Principles

6.1 Making a difference

The Global Health & Safety focus attention on those parts of the supply chain where the risk of not meeting these requirements is highest and where the maximum difference can be made. The Global Health & Safety’s suppliers should be prepared to demonstrate the basis of their approach with regard to the above.

6.2 Awareness raising and training

The Global Health & Safety currently ensure that all necessary people are provided with appropriate training and guidelines to implement the requirements of this policy.

6.3 Working together and Improvements

The Global Health & Safety will work towards implementing and improving this policy. Our aim is to continue to improve every aspect of our all business dealings.

6.4 Independent verification

The Global Health & Safety recognises that the implementation of this policy may at times be assessed through independent verification. We will provide reasonable access to all relevant information, premises, and workers and co-operate in any assessment against our policy.

7. Responsibility of Implementation

Responsibility for the achievement of this policy and our objectives rests with the Management Team comprising of the COO and the Compliance Manager/Supervisor.

The Compliance Manager/Supervisor is responsible for reviewing the policy and ensuring that it is kept up to date with changes in legislation. The Compliance Manager/Supervisor is also responsible for providing relevant reports to the board on suppliers who are failing to meet set ethical and social targets.

8. Whistleblowing

Our responsibility as an ethical and compliant company is to recognize the importance of staff raising safeguarding issues or other such concerns which are in the public interest commonly referred to as whistleblowing. Whistleblowing is the act of reporting concerns about malpractice, wrongdoing or fraud and is something we take extremely serious at Global Health & Safety. When raising issues these should be shared with the appointed person at the company, this could be your immediate manager or a person of more seniority. At Global Health & Safety the person in overall charge of allegations of malpractice, wrongdoing or fraud is Victoria Guney, COO.

Global Health & Safety expects our suppliers to offer their workers an appointed person to contact in the event of whistleblowing.

The following guidelines are available to workers when raising concerns:

• Identify the following code/guidance/policy or protocol you believe is being compromised.
• Be specific about the issues you are worried about and focus on the facts.
• Set out what you feel should be done as well as highlighting the problem.
• Express yourself in a professional manner, written notes are a good method of clarifying thoughts.
• Wherever possible raise concerns with the support of colleagues.
• Keep a note of all relevant conversations and keep copies of any communication sent or received.

9. Evidence of Compliance

9.1 External Monitoring

Global Health & Safety will obtain and commit to third party certification against a nationally or internationally recognised standard, such as the NHS Supply Chain Labour Standards Assurance Systems (LSAS).

9.2 Internal Monitoring

The Global Health & Safety Management Team will carry out regular monitoring of the implementation of ethical standards to enable us to ensure that ethical and social factors are considered in all our business dealings.

10. Targets

To demonstrate compliance with this policy standard and objectives, Global Health & Safety will introduce and maintain achievable targets. Ethical targets are set to provide evidence of our commitment to our social responsibility.

• Encourage Ethical Code of Conduct as a core factor in all processes.
• Educate all staff members in their responsibility surrounding ethical code of conduct.
• Provide a platform that encourages open communication with all parties to ensure compliance with this document.

Document Control

This Ethical Code of Conduct Policy will be regularly reviewed and updated as necessary. Victoria Guney, COO, endorses this policy statement and is fully committed to its implementation.

Name	Victoria Guney
Position	COO
Date	11/2025
Date for Review	11/2026
Rev	01
Amendments from previous	NA

Issue date: 11/2020

1. Introduction

Global Health and Safety Ltd (“the Company”) is fully aware of the responsibility it bears toward its customers, employees and suppliers. As such we have given ourselves a strict set of ethical values to guide us in our business dealings. We take social and environmental factors into consideration alongside economic factors in making decisions on the purchase of goods from our suppliers. Our purchasing decisions consider the products whole life cost and the associated risks. The Global Health & Safety Ltd. has never made a purchasing decision based solely on cost. Social and environmental factors make a significant impact to our aim of ethical procurement, by minimising any risk of social abuse within the supply chain.

The Global Health & Safety is of the belief that this not only makes commercial sense, it also has the potential to improve the living and working standards of people around the world.

This policy sets out the detailed requirements and minimum expectations of our policy of ethical procurement and code of conduct. This policy addresses the expectation that our staff and suppliers have an innate respect for our ethical standards and that relationships with our suppliers are based on the principle of fair and honest dealings at all times. The principle of fair and honest dealings is extended to all others with whom our suppliers do business, including employees, sub-contractors and other third parties and their local communities.

2. Objectives

2.1 Compliance

The Global Health & Safety compliance objective is to adhere to the principles laid out in the NHS Supply Chain Code of Conduct for Suppliers and to seek third party certification to Level 2 of the NHS Supply Chain LSAS standard.

2.2 Ethical Procurement

The Global Health & Safety ethical objective is to ensure that people in the supply-chain are treated with respect and have the following rights with regard to their employment.

• Equal opportunities
• The right to freely choose employment
• Working hours that comply with national laws
• The freedom of association
• Payment of a living wage
• Recognised employment rights
• Recognised safe and healthy working environment

2.3 Sustainable Procurement

The Global Health & Safety sustainability objective is to ensure a continued acceptance of the need for procurement decisions to be made on delivering ethical trading.

3. Commitments

3.1 Legal Compliance

We expect our suppliers to comply with all laws applicable to its business. The supplier should support the principles of the United Nations Global Compact, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the 1998 International Labour Organisation Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and ILO Codes of Practice where applicable, in accordance with national law and practice.

3.2 Right to a Living Wage

We expect our suppliers to comply with the respective national laws and regulations regarding working hours, wages and benefits. Wages should not be paid in kind and should be enough to meet the basic needs of the workers. All workers should be provided with written and comprehendible information about their employment conditions in respect to wages before they start employment. Deductions from wages as a disciplinary measure should not be permitted. Deductions from wages covered under national law should only be allowed with the agreed permission of the worker concerned. Any disputes regarding wages should be recorded.

3.3 Environmental Responsibility

We expect our suppliers to consider their impact on the environment have a responsible attitude towards environmental issues and to strive towards improving their impact on global pollution.

3.4 Employment

We expect our suppliers to not use forced, bonded or involuntary prison labour. All employees have the right to join or form trade unions of their own choosing and, where a significant proportion of the workforce agree, to bargain collectively. Employees’ representatives are not discriminated against and have access to carry out their representative functions in the workplace.

3.5 Avoidance of Excessive Working Hours

Standard working hours must comply with national laws and national industry standards. All employees should not on a regular basis be required to work in excess of 48 hours per week and should be provided with at least one day off for every 7-day period on average. Overtime requested by the employer must be voluntary and must not be requested on a regular basis.

3.6 Elimination of Child Labour

We expect our suppliers on principle to not employ children under the age of 15. If national laws or regulations allow children between the ages of 13 and 15 to perform light work, such work is not endorsed under any situation if it would hinder a child from completing compulsory schooling or if the employment would be harmful to their health or development. Children and young persons under 18 shall not be employed at night or in hazardous conditions.

3.7 Provision of Regular Employment

We expect our suppliers to meet obligations to employees under labour or social security laws and regulations arising from the regular employment relationship should not be avoided. Suppliers should where possible avoid labour-only contracting, fixed-term contracts, sub-contracting, or apprenticeship schemes where there is no real intent to impart skills or provide regular employment.

3.8 Elimination of Discrimination

We expect our suppliers to have a policy covering equality and there should be no grounds to discriminate when hiring, compensation, access to training, promotion, termination or retirement based on race, religion, age, disability, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, union membership or political affiliation.

3.9 Worker ill-treatment

We expect our suppliers to not use physical abuse or other harassment or verbal abuse with their workers.

3.10 Anti-Bribery

Bribes shall not be accepted or offered, under any circumstances, or for any reason. Global Health & Safety recognises that bribery is a criminal offence in the UK and shall comply with the Bribery Act 2010, no matter where in the world the act of bribery takes place. Any acts of bribery by those working for The Global Health & Safety, or on our behalf may result in a prosecution in the UK.

3.11 Modern Slavery

Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of our human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person’s liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain.

As a small business we are not legally required to publish any statement, that being said we have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery and we are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business dealings and relationships and to implement and enforce effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in our own business or our supply chain.

We are also committed to ensuring there is transparency in our own business and in our approach to tackling modern slavery throughout our supply chain. We expect the same high standards from all of our contractors, suppliers and other business partners. This policy applies to all persons working for us or on our behalf in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, officers, agency workers, seconded workers, volunteers, agents, contractors, external consultants, third-party representatives and business partners.

4. Sustainable Procurement

4.1 Monitoring and measuring

The Global Health & Safety will ensure our suppliers meet the ethical targets set out in this document and we will seek to assist them in meeting their own identified targets.

4.2 Working in partnership

The Global Health & Safety will seek out suppliers that share our commitment to high ethical standards. We will offer assistance to our suppliers in raising their ability to meet their social accountability targets. We will develop partnerships with our suppliers and work together to minimise the social impacts of our supply chain.

4.3 Procurement process

The Global Health & Safety will attempt to influence and encourage suppliers in order to create a more reliable marketplace for ethically produced products. Social factors are and will continue to be considered a key part of the purchasing process. Specifically this includes considering where the product is made, by whom and whether the organisation complies with local laws and regulations.

5. Safe and Healthy Working Conditions

The Global Health & Safety our suppliers to provide a safe and healthy working environment which is regulated to international standards and the prevailing knowledge of the industry. The Global Health & Safety expects our suppliers to put in place preventative action to prevent accidents, injury to health and minimise the causes of hazards inherent in the working practice and environment.

The Global Health & Safety expects our suppliers to provide workers with suitable and sufficient health and safety training so they are fully aware of the hazards associated with the work environment and the correct practices required to minimise the risks.

The Global Health & Safety expects our suppliers to provide suitable and adequate welfare facilities including toilet facilities, drinking water and food storage where required. Global Health & Safety expects our suppliers to assign a senior management representative responsibility for health and safety.

6. Best Practice Principles

6.1 Making a difference

The Global Health & Safety expects our suppliers to focus attention on those parts of the supply chain where the risk of not meeting these requirements is highest and where the maximum difference can be made. The Global Health & Safety’s suppliers should be prepared to demonstrate the basis of their approach with regard to the above.

6.2 Awareness raising and training

The Global Health & Safety currently expects our suppliers to ensure that all necessary people are provided with appropriate training and guidelines to implement the requirements of this policy.

6.3 Working together and Improvements

The Global Health & Safety will work collaboratively with suppliers in implementing this policy. Our aim is to identify suppliers that fall below this policy and work with them to ensure compliance within an agreed timeframe. The Global Health & Safety will not do business with a supplier where serious conflicts with our policy are identified and where the supplier consistently fails to take corrective action within an agreed timescale.

6.4 Independent verification

The Global Health & Safety recognises that the implementation of this policy may at times be assessed through independent verification. We will expect our suppliers to provide reasonable access to all relevant information, premises, and workers and co-operate in any assessment against our policy. There is an expectation that the supplier will ensure that subcontractors do the same.

7. Responsibility of Implementation

Responsibility for the achievement of this policy and our objectives rests with the Management Team comprising of the COO and the Compliance Manager/Supervisor.

The Compliance Manager/Supervisor is responsible for reviewing the policy and ensuring that it is kept up to date with changes in legislation. The Compliance Manager/Supervisor is also responsible for providing relevant reports to the board on suppliers who are failing to meet set ethical and social targets.

8. Whistleblowing

Our responsibility as an ethical and compliant supplier is to recognize the importance of staff raising safeguarding issues or other such concerns which are in the public interest commonly referred to as whistleblowing. Whistleblowing is the act of reporting concerns about malpractice, wrongdoing or fraud and is something we take extremely serious at Global Health & Safety. When raising issues these should be shared with the appointed person at the company, this could be your immediate manager or a person of more seniority. At Global Health & Safety the person in overall charge of allegations of malpractice, wrongdoing or fraud is Victoria Guney, COO.

Global Health & Safety expects our suppliers to offer their workers an appointed person to contact in the event of whistleblowing.

The following guidelines are available to workers when raising concerns:

• Identify the following code/guidance/policy or protocol you believe is being compromised.
• Be specific about the issues you are worried about and focus on the facts.
• Set out what you feel should be done as well as highlighting the problem.
• Express yourself in a professional manner, written notes are a good method of clarifying thoughts.
• Wherever possible raise concerns with the support of colleagues.
• Keep a note of all relevant conversations and keep copies of any communication sent or received.

9. Payment Terms for Public Sector Contracts

9.1 Payment Terms

For all sub-contractors and suppliers engaged in public sector contracts subject to the Public Contract Regulations 2015, Global Health and Safety payment terms will be no longer than 30 days from the date of receiving a valid and undisputed invoice. This commitment will be reflected in all contracts with our supply chain partners.

9.2 Passing Down Payment Terms

Global Health and Safety requires that our sub-contractors also commit to similar payment terms with their suppliers. We will ensure that a 30-day payment clause is passed down through all tiers of the supply chain, promoting fairness and financial sustainability.

9.3 Early Payments

While 30 days is the maximum payment period, Global Health and Safety reserves the right to make payments earlier than the 30-day term, subject to agreement with individual suppliers or sub-contractors.

Document Control

This Procurement Ethical Code of Conduct Policy will be regularly reviewed and updated as necessary. Victoria Guney, COO, endorses this policy statement and is fully committed to its implementation.

Name	Victoria Guney (COO), Gokhan Ayaydin (CEO)
Date	10/2026
Date for Review	10/2027
Rev	02
Amendments from previous	9. Ethical Code for Payment Processes article added

Issue date: 01/2021

1. Introduction

Global Health and Safety Ltd (“the Company”) is fully aware of the responsibility it bears toward its customers, employees and environment. As such we have given ourselves a strict set of ethical values to guide us in our business. We take social and environmental factors into consideration alongside economic factors in all our business actions.

Human rights and wellbeing of employees have a significant impact to our aim of labour standards.

The Global Health & Safety is of the belief that this not only makes commercial sense, it also has the potential to improve the living and working standards of people around the world.

This policy sets out the detailed requirements and minimum expectations of our labour standards policy. This policy addresses the expectation that our staff and suppliers have an innate respect for our ethical standards and that relationships with our suppliers are based on the principle of fair and honest dealings at all times. The principle of fair and honest dealings is extended to all others with whom we do business, including employees, sub-contractors and other third parties and their local communities.

2. Objectives

2.1 Work Environment

The Global Health & Safety labour standards objective is to ensure that people working at GHS, treated with respect and have the following rights with regard to their employment.

• Equal opportunities
• The right to freely choose employment
• Working hours that comply with national laws
• The freedom of association
• Payment of a living wage
• Recognised employment rights
• Recognised safe and healthy working environment
• No discrimination in any shape or form

2.2 Sustainability

The Global Health & Safety sustainability objective is to ensure a continued acceptance of the need for all decisions to be made on delivering ethical trading.

3. Commitments

3.1 Legal Compliance

We comply with all laws applicable to our business. We support the principles of the United Nations Global Compact, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the 1998 International Labour Organisation Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, in accordance with national law and practice.

3.2 Right to a Living Wage

We comply with the respective national laws and regulations regarding working hours, wages and benefits. Wages should not be paid in kind and should be enough to meet the basic needs of the workers. All workers should be provided with written and comprehendible information about their employment conditions in respect to wages before they start employment. Deductions from wages as a disciplinary measure should not be permitted. Deductions from wages covered under national law should only be allowed with the agreed permission of the worker concerned. Any disputes regarding wages should be recorded.

3.3 Environmental Responsibility

We consider our impact on the environment and have a responsible attitude towards environmental issues and to strive towards improving our impact on global pollution.

3.4 Employment

We do not use forced, bonded or involuntary prison labour. All employees have the right to join or form trade unions of their own choosing and, where a significant proportion of the workforce agree, to bargain collectively. Employees’ representatives are not discriminated against and have access to carry out their representative functions in the workplace.

3.5 Working Hours

Standard working hours must comply with national laws and national industry standards. All employees should not be required to work in excess of 48 hours per week on a regular basis and should be provided with at least one day off for every 7-day period on average. Overtime requested by the employer must be voluntary and must not be requested on a regular basis and shall not exceed 12 hours a week.

3.6 Elimination of Child Labour

We do not employ children under the age of 16. If national laws or regulations allow children over the ages of 16 to perform light work as apprenticeship, such work is not endorsed under any situation if it would hinder a child from completing compulsory schooling or if the employment would be harmful to their health or development. Children and young persons under 18 will not be employed at night or in hazardous conditions.

At any circumstances, in any of our industrial and trading dealings, any child labour that leads to prostitution, drug trafficking, procurement of children for illicit activity, forced and bonded labour and armed conflict is prohibited.

3.7 Provision of Regular Employment

We meet our obligations to our employees under labour or social security laws and regulations arising from the regular employment relationship should not be avoided. We avoid where possible, labour-only contracting, fixed-term contracts, sub-contracting, or apprenticeship schemes where there is no real intent to impart skills or provide regular employment.

3.8 Elimination of Discrimination

We value equality and there should be no grounds to discriminate when hiring, compensation, access to training, promotion, termination or retirement based on race, religion, age, disability, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, union membership or political affiliation.

3.9 Worker ill Treatment

We do not use physical abuse or other harassment or verbal abuse with our workers.

3.10 Anti-Bribery

Bribes shall not be accepted or offered, under any circumstances, or for any reason. Global Health & Safety recognises that bribery is a criminal offence in the UK and shall comply with the Bribery Act 2010, no matter where in the world the act of bribery takes place. Any acts of bribery by those working for The Global Health & Safety, or on our behalf may result in a prosecution in the UK.

3.11 Modern Slavery

Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of our human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person’s liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain.

As a small business we are not legally required to publish any statement, that being said we have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery and we are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business dealings and relationships and to implement and enforce effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in our own business or our supply chain.

We are also committed to ensuring there is transparency in our own business and in our approach to tackling modern slavery throughout our supply chain. We expect the same high standards from all of our contractors, suppliers and other business partners. This policy applies to all persons working for us or on our behalf in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, officers, agency workers, seconded workers, volunteers, agents, contractors, external consultants, third-party representatives and business partners.

4. Sustainable Procurement

4.1 Monitoring and measuring

The Global Health & Safety will ensure we meet the labour standards set out in this document.

4.2 Working in partnership

The Global Health & Safety will seek out suppliers that share our commitment to high labour standards. We will offer assistance to our suppliers in raising their ability to meet their social accountability targets. We will develop partnerships with our suppliers and work together to minimise the social impacts of our supply chain.

4.3 Procurement process

The Global Health & Safety will attempt to influence and encourage suppliers in order to create a more reliable marketplace for ethically produced products. Social factors are and will continue to be considered a key part of the purchasing process. Specifically this includes considering where the product is made, by whom and whether the organisation complies with local laws and regulations.

We will monitor our subcontractors and suppliers by self-assessment questionnaires and feedback from supplier meetings. These monitoring activities will be done as part of pre-qualification checks and every 12 months.

5. Safe and Healthy Working Conditions

The Global Health & Safety is to provide a safe and healthy working environment which is regulated to international standards and the prevailing knowledge of the industry. The Global Health & Safety expects put in place preventative action to prevent accidents, injury to health and minimise the causes of hazards inherent in the working practice and environment.

The Global Health & Safety provide workers with suitable and sufficient health and safety training so they are fully aware of the hazards associated with the work environment and the correct practices required to minimise the risks.

The Global Health & Safety provide suitable and adequate welfare facilities including toilet facilities, drinking water and food storage where required. Global Health & Safety expects our suppliers to assign a senior management representative responsibility for health and safety.

6. Best Practice Principles

6.1 Making a difference

The Global Health & Safety focus attention on those parts of the supply chain where the risk of not meeting these requirements is highest and where the maximum difference can be made. The Global Health & Safety’s suppliers should be prepared to demonstrate the basis of their approach with regard to the above.

6.2 Awareness raising and training

The Global Health & Safety currently ensure that all necessary people are provided with appropriate training, coaching, mentoring and guidelines to implement the requirements of this policy.

6.3 Working together, communication and improvements

The Global Health & Safety will work towards implementing and improving this policy. Our aim is to continue to improve every aspect of our all business dealings. We are committed to communicate our labour standards policy to our employees, business partners and public.

This labour standards policy is a part of our contractual requirements with suppliers and sub-contractors. During contract renewals, supplier and sub-contractor commitment to this policy will be assessed.

6.4 Independent verification

The Global Health & Safety recognises that the implementation of this policy may at times be assessed through independent verification. We will provide reasonable access to all relevant information, premises, and workers and co-operate in any assessment against our policy.

7. Responsibility of Implementation

Responsibility for the achievement of this policy and our objectives rests with the Management Team comprising of the COO and the Compliance Manager/Supervisor.

The Compliance Manager/Supervisor is responsible for reviewing the policy and ensuring that it is kept up to date with changes in legislation. The Compliance Manager/Supervisor is also responsible for providing relevant reports to the board on suppliers who are failing to meet set ethical and social targets.

8. Whistleblowing

Our responsibility as an ethical and compliant company is to recognize the importance of staff raising safeguarding issues or other such concerns which are in the public interest commonly referred to as whistleblowing. Whistleblowing is the act of reporting concerns about malpractice, wrongdoing or fraud and is something we take extremely serious at Global Health & Safety. When raising issues these should be shared with the appointed person at the company, this could be your immediate manager or a person of more seniority. At Global Health & Safety the person in overall charge of allegations of malpractice, wrongdoing or fraud is Victoria Guney, COO.

Global Health & Safety expects our suppliers to offer their workers an appointed person to contact in the event of whistleblowing.

The following guidelines are available to workers when raising concerns:

• Identify the following code/guidance/policy or protocol you believe is being compromised.
• Be specific about the issues you are worried about and focus on the facts.
• Set out what you feel should be done as well as highlighting the problem.
• Express yourself in a professional manner, written notes are a good method of clarifying thoughts.
• Wherever possible raise concerns with the support of colleagues.
• Keep a note of all relevant conversations and keep copies of any communication sent or received.

9. Evidence of Compliance

9.1 External Monitoring

Global Health & Safety will obtain and commit to third party certification against a nationally or internationally recognised standard, such as the NHS Supply Chain Labour Standards Assurance Systems (LSAS).

9.2 Internal Monitoring

The Global Health & Safety Management Team will carry out regular monitoring of the implementation of ethical standards to enable us to ensure that ethical and social factors are considered in all our business dealings.

We will publish an annual Labour Standards Report that covers key working conditions and complies with relevant national and international legislation which must include the following but not limited to:

• Freedom of association
• Discrimination
• Forced labour
• Child labour
• Working conditions
• Working hours
• Wages and benefits
• Whistleblowing
• Human rights
• Equality
• Collective bargaining

10. Targets

To demonstrate compliance with this policy standard and objectives, Global Health & Safety will introduce and maintain achievable targets. Ethical targets are set to provide evidence of our commitment to our social responsibility.

• Encourage Labour Standards Policy as a core factor in all business processes.
• Educate all staff members in their responsibility surrounding Labour Standards Policy.
• Provide a platform that encourages open communication with all parties to ensure compliance with this document.

Document Control

This Labour Standards Policy will be regularly reviewed and updated as necessary. Victoria Guney, COO, endorses this policy statement and is fully committed to its implementation.

Name	Victoria Guney
Position	COO
Date	01/2026
Date for Review	01/2027
Rev	01
Amendments from previous	NA

Issue date: 09/2020

1. Introduction

1.1 This Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement relates to actions and activities during the financial year 04/2025–04/2026.

1.2 The statement sets down Global Health and Safety Ltd commitment to preventing slavery and human trafficking in our business activities and the steps we have put in place with the aim of ensuring that there is no slavery or human trafficking in our own business and supply chains. We all have a duty to be alert to risks, however small. Staff are expected to report their concerns and management to act upon them.

2. Organizational structure and supply chains

This statement covers the business activities of Global Health and Safety Ltd which are as follows:

The design, manufacture and distribution of facial, single use, medical surgical masks and of non-sterile bandages and wound dressing products, compression therapeutic medical devices.

The Company currently operates in the following countries: United Kingdom.

3. High Risk Activities

The following activities are considered to be at high risk of modern slavery or human trafficking: there is currently no high-risk activity in our business.

Responsibility for the Company’s anti-slavery initiatives is as follows:

• Policies: Victoria Guney, COO, is responsible for creating and reviewing policies. The process by which policies are developed is looking at best practice and adapting to the needs of the Company.
• Risk assessments: Victoria Guney, COO, is responsible for risk assessments in respect of human rights and modern slavery by a process of risk assessment.
• Due diligence: Victoria Guney, COO, is responsible for due diligence in relation to known or suspected instances of modern slavery and human trafficking.

4. Training

To ensure a good understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our business and supply chains, the Company requires Management Staff to get training.

5. Policies

The Company is committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our business or our supply chains. This Statement affirms its intention to act ethically in our business relationships.

6. Due Diligence Processes for Slavery and Human Trafficking

The Company undertakes due diligence when considering taking on new suppliers, and regularly reviews its existing suppliers. The Company’s due diligence process includes evaluating the modern slavery and human trafficking risks of each new supplier.

7. Performance indicators

The Company uses the following key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure how effective we are in ensuring slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in any part of our business or supply chains including payroll systems and they all discussed in management review meetings.

Document Control

This Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement will be regularly reviewed and updated as necessary. Victoria Guney, COO, endorses this policy statement and is fully committed to its implementation.

Name	Victoria Guney
Position	COO
Date	20/04/2026
Date for Review	20/04/2027
Rev	02
Amendments from previous	Yes
Other comments	Changes on scope have been applied to the document.

Supplier name: Global Health & Safety Ltd. Publication date: 14.02.2026

Introduction

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been produced in response to Procurement Policy Note (PPN) 006 which specifies that Global Health & Safety must have a plan to manage greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and have a commitment to Net Zero emissions by 2050 in order to bid for Government contracts.

Global Health & Safety is committed to supporting Government Net Zero targets by 2050 and are taking all reasonable steps to achieve this before 2050. Global Health & Safety is committed to implementing this Carbon Reduction Plan and providing a wide range of carbon reduction initiatives in the delivery of contracts.

Emissions have been quantified following PPN 006 Technical Standard and ISO 14064-1:2019, the international standard for the quantification and reporting of GHG emissions.

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been produced in collaboration with Carbonology® Ltd.

Commitment to achieving Net Zero

Global Health & Safety is committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2050. This will be supported by the quantification of GHG emissions and development of a Carbon Reduction Plan in alignment with PPN 006 technical requirements on an annual basis.

Environmental measures referenced in this document will be in effect and utilised in the delivery of relevant contracts. A series of reduction targets have been set to progress towards Net Zero.

This document is a summary version of the full Carbon Reduction Plan.

Baseline emissions footprint: 2023

Baseline emissions are a record of the greenhouse gases that have been produced in the past and were produced prior to the introduction of any strategies to reduce emissions. Baseline emissions are the reference point against which emissions reduction can be measured.

Baseline year: 2023 (1st January – 31st December)

This is the second year Global Health & Safety have quantified organisational emissions. 2023 has been established as a new base year because emissions were quantified in alignment with ISO 14064-1 for the first time, resulting in an improved and updated GHG quantification process. Updating the baseline to 2023 ensures consistency and meaningful comparability of GHG emissions data in future reporting periods. Scope 3 categories refer to the GHG Protocol.

Emissions	Total (tCO₂e)
Scope 1	5.69
Scope 2 (location-based)	37.09
Scope 3 (included sources)	65.18
— Category 1: Purchased goods and services	0.04
— Category 3: Fuel and energy related activities	13.66
— Category 4: Upstream transportation and distribution	12.22
— Category 5: Waste generated in operations	0.84
— Category 6: Business travel	6.22
— Category 7: Commuting	31.73
— Category 9: Downstream transportation and distribution	0.47
Total emissions (location-based)	107.96

Previous reporting year: 2022

This is the first year Global Health & Safety quantified organisational emissions. 2022 was the previous reporting year and has been included for reference.

Emissions	Total (tCO₂e)
Scope 1	3.15
Scope 2 (location-based)	31.69
Scope 3 (included sources)	256.63
Total emissions (location-based)	291.47

Previous reporting year: 2024

This is the third year that Global Health & Safety has quantified organisational emissions. There were no changes to the organisational boundaries from the previous reporting period. However, there were changes to the reporting boundaries in 2024, including the addition of emissions from the supply chain, which are included in the total for purchased goods and services. Capital goods were also included as an emissions source for the first time. Scope 3 categories refer to the GHG Protocol.

Emissions	Total (tCO₂e)
Scope 1	4.13
Scope 2 (location-based)	19.72
Scope 3 (included sources)	55.72
— Category 1: Purchased goods and services	18.30
— Category 2: Capital goods	0.06
— Category 3: Fuel and energy related activities	7.43
— Category 4: Upstream transportation and distribution	5.40
— Category 5: Waste generated in operations	0.28
— Category 6: Business travel	0.43
— Category 7: Commuting	18.42
— Category 9: Downstream transportation and distribution	5.40
Total emissions (location-based)	79.57

Current reporting year: 2025

This is the fourth year that Global Health & Safety has quantified organisational emissions. There were no changes to the organisational boundaries or reporting boundaries from the previous reporting period. Scope 3 categories refer to the GHG Protocol.

Emissions	Total (tCO₂e)
Scope 1	9.50
Scope 2 (location-based)	19.57
Scope 3 (included sources)	104.24
— Category 1: Purchased goods and services	19.31
— Category 2: Capital goods	7.78
— Category 3: Fuel and energy related activities	9.39
— Category 4: Upstream transportation and distribution	48.65
— Category 5: Waste generated in operations	0.35
— Category 6: Business travel	1.24
— Category 7: Commuting	7.19
— Category 9: Downstream transportation and distribution	10.32
Total emissions (location-based)	133.31

Emissions reduction targets

Below is a summary of our reduction targets and forecasted results. In order to continue our progress to achieving Net Zero, we have adopted the following carbon reduction targets. Savings outlined below are against the 2023 base year.

• Reduce emissions from gas by 5% each year — 1.72 tCO₂e reduction by 2030
• Reduce emissions from electricity generation by 10% each year — 19.35 tCO₂e reduction by 2030
• Reduce emissions from staff commuting by 8% each year — 14.03 tCO₂e reduction by 2030
• Reduce emissions from upstream transportation by 8% each year — 5.40 tCO₂e reduction by 2030

Based on these targets, we project that carbon emissions will decrease over the next five years to 55.24 tCO₂e by 2030. This is a reduction of 48.83% from the 2023 base year.

(The full Carbon Reduction Plan includes a year-by-year chart of actual vs. target emissions from 2023 to 2050 — see the downloadable PDF for the complete pathway.)

Carbon reduction projects

Completed Carbon Reduction Initiatives

• Achievement of ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System for ongoing improvement of environmental performance and support of carbon reduction plan
• Emissions Monitoring System created to track GHG performance
• Virtual meetings used where possible to reduce business travel
• Car sharing promoted among employees, with 75% of our workforce living locally
• All company vehicles are EVs and all machinery is electrically operated
• Ultra-efficient motion sensor LED light bulbs installed across both facilities to reduce energy consumption
• Where possible we have engaged with transport logistics companies that offset their carbon emissions
• Transitioned to sourcing critical raw materials for manufacturing within Europe rather than the Far East to reduce emissions from upstream transportation
• Installed two EV charging stations at our Milton Keynes facility
• Gained membership with Carbon Neutral Britain Small Business programme

In the future we hope to implement further measures such as

• Installing solar lighting in our car parks
• Setting up a cycle to work scheme for our employees
• Reduce building heating and cooling demands by installing reflective curtains for all glassed areas within our office spaces, as well as installing PVC door curtains in our warehouse to reduce solar gains and improve insulation
• Engage with landlords to explore the potential of installing solar panels on the roofs of our factories
• Monitor and report the environmental outcomes achieved from the application of our policies across our operations

Declaration and sign off

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 006 and associated guidance and reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans.

Emissions have been reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, and uses the appropriate government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.

Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have been reported in accordance with SECR requirements (where required), and the required subset of Scope 3 emissions have been reported in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard.

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors (or equivalent management body).

Victoria Guney Chief Operating Officer Date: 14.02.2026