We are committed to minimising the health and safety related impacts for employees, customers, communities and other stakeholders arising from our operations and from our products in use.

Many of Johnson Matthey’s products and services make a contribution to enhancing general health and wellbeing or provide safety benefits. We manufacture a range of products used in medical applications. These include opiate based active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), such as morphine and codeine, for pain relief, platinum based anticancer compounds for chemotherapy treatments, other controlled substance APIs, components used in medical devices which are used to assist with surgery and ‘Bitrex’, the world’s bitterest substance, which is an aversive added to household cleaning products to prevent accidental swallowing by children. Our emission control catalysts, which are used to reduce harmful emissions from vehicles and industrial processes, have a major impact on air quality for millions of people around the world.

Read about our policies and how we manage health and safety.