The health, safety and wellbeing of all employees, contractors, visitors, neighbours and customers is in the forefront of our business activity. Nothing has a higher priority and, by complying with all legal requirements and following best practice, we continually improve our health and safety performance, securing a safe work environment and ensuring all significant risks are assessed and effectively managed.

Our Occupational Health & Safety Policy is based on the premise that all accidents are preventable. Our primary measure of safety performance is the lost time accident rate (LTAR) – recording any work-related injury or illness resulting in one or more day's absence from work.

Accredited to BS OHSAS 18001:2007, our health and safety management system is actively used as a tool to ensure high performance in all health and safety activities.

Our  well established behavioural safety programme ensures that all people who work on our sites are acting in the safest possible manner and are aware of the consequences of unsafe behaviour as we pursue our target of eliminating all injuries by creating a culture of preventing injury and ill health at work.

All employees attend regular safety training days and further safety training is specifically targeted to relevant workgroups as required.

We maintain a strong network with customers, suppliers and external safety committees in both the glass and chemical industries where we share improvements, learn from experiences and promote best practice.

We provide a comprehensive occupational health service which actively monitors the health of employees and offers a number of services to help improve their health - physiotherapy and support to stop smoking being typical examples.

On a 2 yearly basis, a Health & Safety Fayre provides a two-day opportunity for employees and their families, contractors and visitors to the sites to explore their own health and ways it can be improved.