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Maintaining High Ethical Standards
Lenovo provides guidance to our employees on a wide range of ethical issues, such as reporting unlawful or
inappropriate conduct, respecting and protecting intellectual property, trading in securities and complying with
governmental regulations. Employees are required to report any evidence of fraud, unethical business conduct,
violation of laws, danger to health or safety or any other violation of corporate policies. In addition, Lenovo has
created the role of Ombudsman to help employees address and resolve problems as well as to help identify
systemic issues and areas for needed change.
Employee Health and Welfare
Lenovo’s people are our greatest asset, and we are committed to providing a safe and healthy working
environment. This global commitment is clearly essential to the company’s productivity and values. The Company’s
Global Occupation Heath and Safety (OHS) organization has established world class standards for employee
workplace safety. Lenovo is recognized as a leading employer offering competitive compensation packages,
abiding by applicable minimum wage requirements in every country and region where it operates, providing
equipment that is safe to use, and focusing continually on preventing injuries. Lenovo is pursuing global volunteer
initiatives, such as OHSAS 18001, in which Lenovo’s global supply chain was certified OHSAS 18001 compliant
by the Bureau Veritas Certification.
Quality and Safety for Products
Lenovo has a well-earned industry reputation for delivering superior quality products and is committed to ensuring
that our products are safe throughout their lifecycle. Lenovo’s global Quality Management System, which has
received ISO 9001 (International Organization for Standardization) certification, ensures the continual delivery
of design improvements into Lenovo’s current and future products. Lenovo is committed to ensuring that our
products are safe throughout their lifecycle, including manufacturing, transportation, installation, use, service and
disposal. Corporate strategies, policies and guidelines have been designed to support this commitment for product
safety. Lenovo strives to ensure that our products meet all applicable legal requirements and voluntary safety and
ergonomics practices to which Lenovo subscribes wherever our products are sold.
The Environment
Lenovo is committed to accountability and leadership in environmental affairs and continues to build upon a
history of environmental achievement. With the foundation of a robust Environmental Management System (EMS)
each Lenovo employee and manager bears a personal responsibility to conserve natural resources, develop,
manufacture, and market products that are safe for the user and the environment, energy efficient, and recyclable.
Lenovo’s EMS is ISO 14001 certified and covers Lenovo’s global manufacturing research, product design and
development activities for personal computers and related products, servers, and digital and peripheral products.
Lenovo’s EMS assures the highest level of environmental protection for Lenovo’s products as well as Lenovo’s
site operations worldwide. Lenovo’s corporate environmental policy applies to all Lenovo manufacturing and
development operations and forms the foundation of Lenovo’s EMS.
Lenovo’s Environmentally Conscious Products program specifies the elimination of potential health hazards and
minimizing the environmental impact of its products across the complete product lifecycle. Lenovo’s priority is to
use environmentally preferable materials whenever applicable and is a leader in the use of recycled content in its
products including post-consumer recycled plastics. Since 2005, Lenovo has used over 14 million pounds (net)
of post-consumer recycled content plastics, with over 8 million pounds (net) used in 2009 alone. Lenovo currently
uses low halogen post-consumer recycled content in applications across all product types, including notebooks,
monitors, desktops, and workstations. In 2009, over 30% (net) of all plastic purchased to manufacture Lenovo
monitors consisted of low halogen post-consumer recycled content, with every ThinkVision monitor released in
2009 containing post-consumer recycled content.
Reduced energy consumption is also a major goal of Lenovo’s Environmentally Conscious Products program. In
June, 2009, Lenovo announced that more than 25 of its Think-branded business and Idea-branded consumer
PCs met the new ENERGY STAR ® Version 5.0 Specification for Computers, which went into effect on July 1,
2009. Lenovo offers a full complement of ENERGY STAR® qualified notebook, desktop, monitor, workstation and
server products. Many of the configurations offered exceed the current ENERGY STAR® energy efficiency criteria
by 10% to more than 25%.