Percentage of key suppliers as signatories to Reed Elsevier Supplier Code of Conduct

60%

We uphold Reed Elsevier values by requiring our suppliers to meet the same standards we set for ourselves

Reduction in health and safety severity rate (lost days per 200,000 hours worked) 2008-2010

-29%

Valuing our people means going beyond legal obligations to ensure staff wellbeing

Corporate responsibility

Corporate responsibility ensures good management of risk and opportunities, helps us attract and retain the best people, and strengthens our corporate reputation. It means performing to the highest commercial and ethical standards and channelling our knowledge and strengths, as global leaders in our industries, to make a difference to society.


Constant engagement with stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, communities, governments, and members of civil society, helps us determine material corporate responsibility issues. The Reed Elsevier Board, senior management and the Corporate Responsibility Forum oversee corresponding objectives and monitor performance against them – encompassing our unique contributions as a business, as well as governance, people and community, customers, health and safety, supply chain, and environment.

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To date, Elsevier has helped the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Mobile Library set up more than 250 mobile libraries to deliver current health information to nursing professionals working in remote areas of 17 developing countries.

Each library is housed in a sturdy, transportable trunk with approximately 80 titles. In 2010, through Elsevier and the Reed Elsevier Cares programme, resources, products, and assistance supported the ICN Supporting Nurses and Nursing in Haiti Fund in aiding post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction with tailored French-language Nursing Mobile Libraries containing books on post-disaster response, infectious diseases, and reinitiating interrupted treatment of life threatening conditions like HIV and tuberculosis.