California Transparency in Supply Chains Act Disclosure

GE is committed to ensuring that our supply chain reflects GE’s values and respect for human rights and the environment. To that end, our Spirit and Letter policy provides:

• GE’s relationships with suppliers are based on lawful, efficient and fair practices. We expect our suppliers to obey the laws that require them to treat workers fairly, provide a safe and healthy work environment and protect environmental quality. Following GE guidelines helps ensure that our supplier relationships will not damage GE’s reputation.

In furtherance of this policy, GE obligates its suppliers by contract to comply with our “Supplier Expectations,” including the requirement that they “[n]ot utilize forced, prison, or indentured labor, or subject workers to any form of compulsion or coercion.” GE’s suppliers are obligated to expect the same standards of their suppliers in turn.

GE’s program to ensure compliance with our supplier expectations, including on-site audits of suppliers in the developing world, is described on our Supplier Program Description Citizenship web site page. Between 2008 and 2011, GE conducted on-site assessments in 67 countries. Under our Supplier Responsibility Program, GE personnel who perform on-site audits are given extensive training in auditing techniques to recognize and report non-compliance with our expectations. In addition, GE sourcing personnel follow an “eyes always open” approach under which all relevant personnel are trained to recognize environment, health, safety, and labor red flags, including red flags relating to forced labor, and to report and investigate all suspicions of improper conduct at all suppliers globally. While third-party auditors are employed to conduct some on-site audits, the majority of our examinations are performed by GE personnel, subject to a program for conducting spot-checks on the accuracy of the GE auditors, and occasional reviews by GE’s Corporate Audit Staff.

Suppliers that fail to meet GE’s Expectations are terminated. Employees and leaders who violate the spirit or letter of GE’s policies are subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.

This disclosure applies to all consolidated GE affiliates that are California taxpayers subject to the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act. Click here for a list of included affiliates.