The safety and health of our employees is an enduring priority. We are continuing to develop our ‘safety first’ culture, with supporting training for all employees. We also work hard to continuously reduce our environmental impact and make efficient use of natural resources. This is not only an environmental imperative; tackled correctly, it is a major commercial opportunity.

Our Commitments

We are working to support UN Sustainable Development Goals 12: Responsible consumption and production and 13: Climate action as part of this pillar of our new sustainability framework. We have set the following strategic commitments to help drive progress:

• We will maintain strong safety performance through our total recordable incident rate (TRIR) as we strive for a zero harm workplace
• We embed social, ethical and environmental considerations into our Global Supplier Excellence Programme
• We will reduce our carbon emissions in line with our science-based targets and commit to net-zero for scope 1 and 2 by 2035 and for scope 3 by 2045

Our progress

We continued our strong operational performance in 2024. Our Health and Safety team delivered further audit, training and engagement programmes, successfully reducing our total recordable incident rate (TRIR) to 0.22.

We nearly achieved our 2030 climate target for scope 1 and 2 emissions, with 2024 operational emissions 37% below our 2020 baseline (target: 42%). These reductions were achieved through the use of rooftop solar power at our new facility in China, the transition to an electric heating system at our Manchester facility, and an overall increase in the use of renewable power across our sites.

Read more on page 34 in our Annual Report