Health and Safety

Health and safety is a key element of our sustainability strategy. As a business we are committed to providing our employees with a safe working environment and supporting and enhancing their health and wellbeing. For us, any accident is unacceptable and our target is zero accidents.

We are also committed to ensuring the safety of our products and services in our customers operations and to understanding, minimising and eliminating any health related impacts. We want to be a good neighbour and we see it as our responsibility to ensure our products and operations do not negatively impact on the health, safety and wellbeing of our communities.

We not only focus on the health and safety impacts of how we run our operations but on developing beneficial products and services too. Many of them enhance general health and wellbeing or provide safety benefits.

Read about how Bitrex® helps make our homes a safer place for children

We manufacture a range of products which are used in medical applications. These include opiates, such as morphine and codeine for pain relief, platinum containing anticancer drugs for chemotherapy treatments and a variety of active pharmaceutical ingredients which are used by pharmaceutical companies in the formulation of medicines and drugs.

Our emission control catalysts, which are fitted to vehicles to reduce harmful emissions including soot, make a major contribution to air quality for millions of people around the world.

Read more about Johnson Matthey’s emission control catalysts

Read more about our policies and how we manage health and safety

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