Dedication to the welfare, education and quality of life of our employees is engrained in our core values. Our research and development, production and management processes depend on a highly-trained, experienced and committed workforce. With the introduction of data gathering on training, we expect to be able to better align employee development with achieving our business goals.

During 2007, we continued to invest in ongoing education for eligible employees under our Continuing Education Scheme, which support employees in fully-funded further education programmes. In addition, we continued to support talented students, providing access to appropriate educational resources.

Initiatives launched in 2007:

• Jordan:Working towards OHSAS 18001 certification at one of our facilities.
• US: Conducting quality control training on a monthly basis.
• US: Implementing a training and corrective action system, which will identify and allocate training more efficiently.