Our Aims and Targets

Safety

All sites 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 allow us to better monitor performance against these plans.

As part of our ongoing commitment to managing and improving our safety performance we will continue to review process risk management at Johnson Matthey facilities. We will work with external experts to analyse the results and use the outcomes to ensure that the policies, guidance and training that we develop are both robust and appropriate to the hazards within our business.

Our safety related priorities for 2008/09 are to:

• Develop and implement a corporate process risk management policy and provide appropriate guidance and training to all relevant business units.
• Enhance our internal auditing programme to include current legislation and industry best practices.
• Introduce group guidance on change management to secure early involvement of safety related issues into new capital expenditure projects and new product development.
• Improve the quality of information exchange and support offered to sites worldwide by the generation of locally based networks and focus teams.

We will also develop a longer term strategic plan to ensure that effort in this area converges with the sustainability strategy and delivers a sustainable and integrated approach to how we manage safety.

Health

Securing the long term health and wellbeing of our employees is an essential foundation for the development of a sustainable workforce.

Maintaining the continued reduction in the incidence of occupational illnesses, particularly those attributable to exposure to chemical hazards, remains the highest priority health protection issue for Johnson Matthey and we are building on our corporate health management strategy to support this.

Each business is also developing and incorporating health and wellness programmes to secure and enhance the longer term health, wellbeing and work ability of employees over the next ten years and beyond. These programmes will form part of the businesses’ sustainability plans in working towards our Sustainability 2017 Vision.

Our health priorities for 2008/09 are to:

• Ensure that all business units incorporate longer term workforce health and wellbeing improvement initiatives in sustainable business plans.
• Continue investment in improvements to the containment and engineering control measures of chemical manufacturing processes to further reduce the incidence of occupational illnesses attributable to exposure to chemicals.
• Include health protection and ergonomic factors in the design of new production facilities.
• Adapt health programmes to support ageing workers to help maximise their health and productivity in later working life.

Adopting these priorities will support our aim of developing a sustainable workforce for the future.

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