Our EHSMS is a company-wide system designed to provide a framework for the environmental, health and safety programs and policies described in this report.

The EHSMS is central to our strategy for developing an environmentally sustainable business. It forms our approach to managing potential environmental and occupational health and safety impacts from Agilent and covers our design, development, manufacturing, distribution, and sales and service operations worldwide.

ISO 14001
The sections of our EHSMS that address the environment meet the requirements of ISO 14001, an international standard for environmental management systems. Our company-wide EHSMS achieved ISO 14001 registration in April 2001. This initial registration laid the groundwork for us to have our manufacturing sites registered under a single, company-wide certificate.

In January 2003, we completed the process of adding 24 manufacturing sites to the ISO 14001 certificate through local site registration audits. This is well ahead of our original December 2003 target completion date.

OHSAS 18001
Our South Queensferry site in the UK was the first Agilent site to achieve accreditation to the occupational health and safety management system standard, OHSAS 18001. The accreditation was achieved in October 1999. Although Agilent's EHSMS is designed to align with OHSAS 18001, we do not currently plan to register other sites to this standard.