Our Aims and Targets

Safety

All sites within the group will aim to continue to make progress against the target of zero greater than three day accidents. Leading and lagging indicators have been integrated into site improvement plans to better monitor performance against these improvement targets.

Our priorities for 2009/10 are to:

• Complete the schedule of corporate environment, health and safety (EHS) audits at sites across the group.
• Offer support and guidance to sites in implementing the EHS Learning Events initiative.
• Undertake specific process safety audits at a number of large manufacturing facilities.
• Complete new EHS policies and guidance to support existing EHS related governance within the group EHS management system. These will focus on areas of specific interest to Johnson Matthey’s operations and include process safety, chemical exposure, occupational illness and occupational travel. The policies and guidance will be issued to all sites and supported by appropriate training.

Health

Protecting and enhancing the long term health and wellbeing of our employees continues to underpin our efforts to secure workforce sustainability.

In view of the importance assigned to the prevention of occupational illness conditions, a new corporate sustainability target has been set to reduce the annual incidence of occupational illness cases by at least 30% over the next five years to 2013/14. The longer term aim continues to be to eliminate the occurrence of occupational illness cases as far as is practicable.

In addition to the measurement of ‘lagging’ indicators of health performance (e.g. occupational illness incidence), we aim to introduce the assessment and reporting of ‘leading’ indicators of health programme performance during 2009/10. Each business will report the extent to which preventative actions have been implemented for a range of key indicators of programme performance.

Our health priorities for 2009/10 are to:

• Identify any additional investment in prevention programmes required in each business to achieve the new sustainability corporate target to reduce the incidence of occupational illness by 2013/14.
• Introduce new corporate policies and guidance addressing occupational illness prevention, diagnosis and management with additional specific guidance on the prevention of chemical exposure related conditions.
• Ensure that 100% of businesses complete the health improvement planning process.
• Continue to implement health and wellbeing programmes to support the attendance, motivation and performance of employees.
• Ensure the business is prepared to respond effectively to global health events such as the current influenza pandemic.

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