BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD – CHARITY, COMMUNITY AND CSR Ever since Owen Mumford began making medical devices, safety has always been at the heart of everything we do. We have long been recognised as pioneers in the design and manufacture of safe products, but we also understand our social and environmental responsibility is fundamental to our business. This has involved Owen Mumford partaking in many initiatives that support our local community as we recognise the importance of respecting not just the global environment but our local ones too. Written by: Jarl Severn
• Power down initiatives to reduce unnecessary energy usage • Fitting auto light sensors and replacing old light bulbs with LED
At Owen Mumford, we have ambitions to help lead the way in terms of sustainability; both as a business through innovative, sustainable manufacturing practices and in producing environmentally friendly medical devices. Owen Mumford is rightly proud of it standing as a responsible business and has already gone far in achieving its targets in this area including:
In addition to this Owen Mumford has participated in employee wellbeing initiatives and various charity fundraising activities.
• New Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations on UK sites • Solar arrays to reduce carbon emissions • Renewable energy sources for all our UK facilities • Zero waste going to landfill • Procuring recycled printer paper where possible • FSC approved packaging from sustainable source • Improving segregation of office waste for recycling and the removal of wastepaper bins
In October last year, Owen Mumford celebrated World Mental Health Day, marking an important moment for us as a business, as we proudly demonstrated our commitment to mental health awareness within the workplace. This is an international day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma and was first celebrated in 1992 as an initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health, a global mental health organisation spanning
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workshops created “a The safe environment for
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To support World Mental Health Day, workshops were held and information stations were established at our Woodstock and Chipping Norton sites run by
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