Company: GEHC
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001932393-25-000005
Chunk: 48

Company: GE HealthCare Technologies Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 48
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Increasing attention to ESG matters, including EH&S matters, may impose additional costs on our business and expose us to new risks. 

We face attention from investors, regulators, and other stakeholders, who may have conflicting views, related to our ESG positions, performance, and disclosures. Third-party organizations that provide information to investors on ESG matters have developed ratings processes for evaluating companies on their respective approaches. If we receive unfavorable ESG ratings or otherwise draw scrutiny for the positions we take or do not take on these matters, it could be used by investors, lenders, and customers to inform their investment, financing, or purchasing decisions, which could have a negative impact on our business. 

We are subject to legal and regulatory requirements that focus on our ESG positions, performance, and disclosures. These requirements continue to broaden and may be conflicting, both in terms of scope and geography, a trend we expect to continue. Our processes and controls for reporting of ESG matters may not always conform with evolving and disparate standards for identifying, measuring, and reporting ESG metrics, and such standards may change over time, which could result in significant revisions to our performance metrics, goals, or reported progress in achieving our goals. A failure to adequately meet regulatory expectations may result in non-compliance, the loss of business, reputational impacts, and an inability to attract and retain top talent.

We have established and publicly announced details of our ESG program, including goals related to addressing climate change. While these goals reflect our current plans and aspirations, we may need to adjust or revise them in light of changes to the assumptions made at the time they were set or the emergence of risks related to our ability to deliver them. These risks include the availability and cost of low- or non-carbon-based energy sources; the suitability, cost, and availability of materials and technologies; and the possible organic growth of our business.

We are also subject to international, national, state, and local laws, regulations, industry and customer standards, and other voluntary commitments related to EH&S matters. These EH&S laws, regulations, standards, and commitments apply to a broad range of activities across our whole product lifecycle, including those related to (1) protection of the environment, protected species, and use of natural resources; (2) occupational health, safety, and well-being; (3) the use, handling, management, release, storage, transportation, remediation, and disposal of, and exposure to, hazardous waste, radio chemical materials, and other hazardous