Our Suppliers

GE sets expectations for its suppliers regarding environment, health, safety, human rights and employment, and security practices, and conducts on-site inspections of many suppliers, mostly in emerging markets. Established under our integrity program, the inspections evaluate suppliers for environment, health and safety, labor, security, and human rights issues. Under this program, GE has required thousands of suppliers to improve their environmental performance and labor practices, obtain permits, and otherwise come into compliance with local law and GE standards.

In addition to requiring suppliers to address deficiencies identified in on-site assessments, we are working to provide training to suppliers, and have identified capacity-building projects in places where GE has a significant supplier base. In 2010, we conducted our second Supplier Summit in Shanghai with the goal of improving the program and building on our most successful program elements.