A greener path to safe patient care
Today, our products help protect lives around the world. To enable our users to continue protecting the world from infection, we are building products, processes and partnerships for the future.
PRODUCT
Our dedicated team are looking into every element of product design including safe chemistries, suitable substrates and uncompromised efficacy across entire product lifecycles.
PROCESS
As market leaders in infection prevention and control, we are evolving our global operations in line with national imperatives - including our pledge to reach Net Zero by 2045, while making delivering sustainable care as safe as possible.
PARTNERSHIP
Our people are here to listen and work with our users and recognised groups to understand personal and organisational sustainability objectives. Working together, we will learn and lead with our solution-based offering.
We’re learning. Please talk to us about your sustainability goals so we can support you as we have since 2004.
- We’re reducing plastic where we can and introducing plastic-free alternatives
- We’re supporting our dedicated Sustainability Research Team to look at the future of IPC product design beyond plastic-free
- We’re embedding our product design values, meaning our products can carry out recognised IPC practices with:
- Safer chemistries
- Less water consumption
- Fewer consumable products
- Less unnecessary plastic
- We’re working towards our Net Zero by 2045 pledge across all scopes; we achieved a 24% reduction in Scope 1 & 2 in 2022
- We’re reducing energy across our global operations and offices and signing up to green energy schemes
- We’re maintaining our ISO140001 accreditation successfully across all our global operations
- We’re talking to our users to help understand their objectives through study days, surveys and conversations
- We’re active members of local, national and global bodies including European Disposables and Non-wovens Association (EDANA), SEDEX, APCO and LSAS
- We’re educating others to avoid overuse of products through our global clinical education network including Clinical Educators, online education programmes and global educational webinar series
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