Responsible Business

Behaving ethically. Working safely. Reducing environmental impacts. Developing and engaging our people. Contributing to our communities. Being responsible is simply fundamental to Smiths.
Health and Safety

Health and safety is our top priority. Wherever we operate, we aim to provide injury-free workplaces for both our people and anyone visiting our facilities. We do this by implementing Group-wide activities to improve our safety culture, behaviours and risk reduction.

We encourage all colleagues to take personal responsibility for working safely. We look for feedback and ideas on how to improve safety. By building our safety culture around this, we've continually improved our safety performance. In 2018 we maintained our record low recordable injury rate, with only 0.38 injuries per 100 people. But even one injury is too many. We want to make Smiths an even safer place to work.

Environment

We're committed to using energy and natural resources efficiently and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. Our aim is to minimise any adverse effects our activities, products and services may have on the environment.

We monitor energy and water usage, waste generation and greenhouse gas emissions across all our sites – recording year-on-year improvements against all of our performance targets since 2010. We’ve also achieved a 40% absolute reduction in CO2 emissions across our business in the past ten years – which equates to a 50% reduction normalised to revenue.

We continue to identify opportunities for reduction across our global business.

Ethics and Compliance

Being ethical is about applying our Smiths values to our behaviour, actions and decisions every day. Our values are at the heart of what it means to be Smiths and underpin our ethics and compliance approach.

We're committed to upholding high ethical standards wherever we operate around the world, and are guided by our Smiths Code of Business Ethics.

Code of Business Ethics
Our communities

We aim to contribute positively to the communities in which we operate. That involves providing employment opportunities and playing a beneficial role in local economies, as well as community involvement through charitable giving and education initiatives.

Our charitable giving is allocated to registered charities and non-profit organisations that have connections to the industries we operate in. Our contributions aim to enhance the well-being of people through improved education, health and welfare or environment.

Diversity & Inclusion

Smiths’ success depends on the diverse perspectives our teams bring to work every day. Our workplace respects, values and supports each individual for their diversity. By embracing our differences, we will attract, retain, and inspire a highly engaged workforce and be better prepared to outperform our competitors.

Guided by the Smiths Way and our core value of Respect, diversity and inclusion is not only the right thing to do, but necessary for our organisation to be more innovative, drive employee engagement and help our employees feel they belong at Smiths.

Our diversity and inclusion plan
“We believe that doing things the right way and being a responsible business isn’t a choice – it’s a responsibility”
Andy Reynolds SmithChief Executive

Responsible Business Reports and Policies