Global Focus on Automotive and Aerospace - Social Responsibility Review

1. Global Focus on Automotive and Aerospace- Social Responsibility Review GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

2. Rest of World 7% Americas 32% Europe 61% Overview of GKN 2001 Sales £4.3bn Profit before tax* £245m Operations in more than 30 countries Employees - subsidiaries 36,300 joint ventures 13,500 2001 Sales by Business 2001 Sales by Region of Origin Other £79m (2%) AgustaWestland £784m (18%) Automotive Driveline Division £1,781m (42%) Aerospace £709m (16%) Powder Metallurgy £612M (14%) Other Automotive £451m (10%) * Before goodwill amortisation and exceptional items GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

3. Overview of GKN Automotive Driveline Division (“ADD”) • World No 1 in production of constant velocity joints (CVJs) with 42% global market share Powder metallurgy • World No 1 in powder parts production with 16% market share and US No 1 in powder manufacture Helicopters - AgustaWestland • World No 1 by 2001 disclosed revenues Aerospace Services • Leading supplier to aerospace industry - core structures supplier to Boeing Military Aircraft and Missile Systems Group A global leader in automotive and aerospace GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

4. Business mission • To deliver outstanding products and services to customers and to exceed the performance of other companies in our sector in growth and profitability • To enrich our shareholders, reward our employees and contribute to the communities of which we are a part • We value the spirit of enterprise as a way of empowering our people, we focus on innovation as a way of evolving new products and processes and we build on our global market and technology leadership as a source of competitive advantage • We care for the environment, we respect human dignity and rights and we uphold the highest standards of ethical behaviour. This mission is complemented by the Company’s enduring Aims and Values which are set out in full on page 20 of the annual report GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

5. Group policies • Ethical Standards • Competition Law • Data Protection • Employment Law and Practices • Employee Disclosure Procedures - (Whistle Blowing) GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

6. Ethical Standards Policy • All Group operations to have an ethical standards policy • Best practice within relevant industry • Takes account of cultural and regulatory framework • All polices must contain certain core principles, including: • Business conducted with respect for human rights and in accordance with regulatory framework • Prohibition of corrupt practices including prohibition on giving or receiving bribes • Protection of assets and recording of transactions • Avoidance of conflicts of interest • Ethical oversight and advice GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

7. Competition Law • All companies are required to ensure that all relevant staff are trained in competition compliance • Training must include: • Responses to competitors • Dealing with customers • Dealing with suppliers • Requirements for regulatory approval • Emphasis on the need for external advice GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

8. Data Protection • The following general principles are applied to all companies: • Information obtained/retained where necessary for legitimate business objectives • Local requirements must be observed • Information kept confidential and in secure conditions • All companies to have nominated data controller • Upon request the nature of information held and reason for holding it to be supplied to data subject • No disclosure without consent other than pursuant to legal obligation GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

9. Employment Law and Practices • All companies must have employment policy and procedures • All policies must contain core principles: • Respect for human rights • No discrimination (sex, race, sexual orientation, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability) • Provision of safe and healthy working conditions • Provisions in relation to substance abuse and dangerous weapons • Provisions against harassment (physical, verbal, sexual) • Formal and confidential grievance procedures must be provided • Separate US provisions re age discrimination (retirement) GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

10. Employee Disclosure Procedures(Whistle Blowing) • Observes basic principle that employees must be able to make disclosures in good faith without fear of reprisal in knowledge that matters will be investigated • Areas covered include actual, or anticipated: • Criminal behaviour • Danger to health, safety, environment • Breach of Group policies • Concealment • Companies must publish disclosure procedures • Default system in writing (in any language) to Group Secretary or Head of Corporate Audit GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

11. Employee statistics as at December 2001 Subsidiaries 36,300 Joint ventures 13,500 By Division By Region GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

12. GKN’s Integrated Loss Prevention Policy • The policy is based on GKN’s values: • In support of these, the Group pursues a systematic integrated loss prevention approach to safeguard: • people’s health • the environment • an uninterrupted supply to our customers • our assets and earnings • All parts of GKN must: • Provide a safe and healthy working environment • Commit to achieving and demonstrating sound environmental performance • Systematically analyse and actively manage risk in all areas of business • Embed Loss Prevention into its total business process • Strive for excellence through continuous improvement GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

13. Policy poster in 8 languages GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

14. GKN Loss Prevention Infrastructure Executive Committee Group Loss Prevention Council Common Interest Groups Group Loss Prevention Divisional Loss Prevention Committees Plant B Company Plant A Company GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

15. Health and Safety – a proactive approach Health & Safety Performance - focus/support for under-performers - recognising good performers - Executive Committee reviews Improvement objectives & plans - required for each business - targets for every business - review by division & Group Workshops & seminars - active senior management input - practical approach - all roles, businesses & countries GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

16. Health and Safety – a proactive approach Safety visit/review programme - senior executives & specialists - focus on improvement - improvement workshops People involvement/ development - health & safety committees - safety training / activities - aim to engage all employees Learning/sharing/ benchmarking - sharing best practice - accident communication & learning - developing Intranet Point of accident Bearings and blade for supporting the half shaft GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

17. Accidents Accident severity rate reduced by 37% over 5 years Accident frequency rate reduced by 47% over 5 years Accident frequency (number of incidents resulting in one or more lost days per 1,000 employees per annum) Accident severity rate (days lost per 1,000 employees per annum) GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

18. Environmental • Environmental Objectives and Targets • Devise procedures that properly safeguard the environment, • Manage environmental risks so as to minimise the risk of pollution of any media, • To take account of environmental impacts when new products or processes are being considered, • To achieve continuous improvement through setting and monitoring environmental performance targets. • Application of sustainable development to products and processes • Board led task force in place to identify and realise opportunities GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

19. Environmental Energy (1999 = 100) • Environmental Achievements • Energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions relative to sales beginning to fall, • Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) use has reduced since 1998, • Water use and waste generation relative to sales are declining, • Environmental management steadily improving – more companies are accredited to ISO 14001, Waste (1999 = 100) Water (1999 = 100) GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

20. Governance and Compliance • Chairman and Chief Executive roles separated • Audit Committee (Chair: Roy Brown) consisting of 5 NEDs • Remuneration Committee (Chair: Baroness Hogg) consisting of 6 NEDs • Nominations Committee (Chair: Sir David Lees) consisting of 6 NEDs and CEO • Executive Committee (Chair: Marcus Beresford) consisting of all Exec Directors • Chairman’s Committee (Chair: Sir David Lees) consisting of 6 NEDs and CEO • Balanced Board 6 Exec Directors 6 NEDs • Combined Code compliance GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

21. Internal Control and Risk Management • Board policy to have internal control and risk management systems in place to manage risk in an effective manner • Exec Committee identifies, evaluates and monitors risk • Continuing processes in place to assess major strategic, commercial, and financial risks • Social responsibilities are monitored, managed and controlled • Processes summarised in a risk map, revised on an on-going basis and reviewed annually by audit committee • Requirement to confirm annually all statutory and regulatory compliance as well as compliance with Group policies • Regular Board review of key processes More detail on systems and the roles of the Board and its Committees can be found on pages 72-74 of the Annual Report GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

22. Group Policies • Application and audit • All policies are applied globally even if in excess of legal requirements • Appliance of policies scrutinised annually by internal corporate audit as part of internal control procedures or, in the case of the integrated loss prevention policy, by Corporate Centre specialists. • Internal corporate audit report submitted to parent company audit committee and reported on to the board. GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

23. Community and Charitable Activities • Total Group donations (2001) £1.31 million • Founder member of Per Cent Club • Giving is focused on education and community welfare • Active education/business partnerships include: • Technology Tree • Year in Industry • Young Enterprise • West Midlands Engineering Scheme • GKN Millennium Trust sponsors the chair of Manufacturing Engineering at Cambridge University GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

24. Community and Charitable Activities • PRINCE’S TRUST: sponsorship of 5 business teams of socially disadvantaged young people each year which undertake community projects • GKN EVERGREEN ASSOCIATION: providing post retirement care to 16,000 pensioners utilising the services of 400 volunteers • GKN SANKEY EMPLOYEE CHARITABLE TRUST: has now raised over £500,000 since inception • MEXICO: initiatives to provide education to families of employees (some 700 people attend most weekends) • BRAZIL: initiatives include building bakery for children’s home and providing housing and furniture by use of waste wood • GERMANY: policy of sub-contracting work to disabled workshops • US: community service teams in all US Automotive Driveline plants GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE

25. Contacts Dick Etches Human Resources Director Grey Denham Company Secretary David Rood Investor Relations + 44 (0) 1527 533313 david.rood@gknplc.com GLOBAL FOCUS ON AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE