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 aim 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.

Many of Johnson Matthey’s products and services make a contribution to enhancing general health and wellbeing or provide safety benefits. We manufacture a range of products used in medical applications. These include opiates, such as morphine and codeine, for pain relief, platinum containing anticancer drugs used in chemotherapy treatments and ‘Bitrex’, the world’s bitterest substance which is an aversive added to household cleaning products to prevent accidental swallowing by children. Our emission control catalysts, which are used to reduce harmful emissions from vehicles and industrial processes, have a major impact on air quality for millions of people around the world.

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

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