Health Improvements at Johnson Matthey Maastricht
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John Murkens, Managing Director of Johnson Matthey’s Colour Technologies Business parks his bike.
In order to promote employees’ fitness and become more sustainable, Johnson Matthey’s Colour Technologies business based in Maastricht, the Netherlands implemented a bicycle incentive scheme in 2005. Today nearly 50% of all employees are participating in the scheme and most of them are using their bicycles instead of their cars to come to work. In 2007 a fitness programme for employees was also introduced to help them to improve their physical condition.
These schemes have been combined with a proactive health programme in which supervisors have received training on how to prevent accidents and illness and reduce recovery time. This has resulted not only in reducing sickness rates but also – importantly – in improving the health of the Maastricht workforce as a whole – and lowering pollution through the use of bicycles instead of cars.
More bikes and fewer cars has also meant that we could reduce the size of the car park and begin construction of a technical centre where we will base all our technical work to develop new products for the future.
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