Our impact and UN SDG contribution
Example positive impact metrics
Example metrics1
Read more on our impacts and how they align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
| Our impact | Applicable SDGs | |
|---|---|---|
| Providing diagnostics and monitoring | We supply more than 50 million diagnostic products per year, for cancer, eye health, blood pressure, and other vital signs monitoring. |  |
| Helping improve health outcomes | Our products support more than 15 million surgeries per annum, including those to treat preventable blindness. |  |
| Conserving water | Our products are used to monitor more than 110,000km of water pipelines. |   |
| Making water safer | We enable over 250 million water tests and supply more than 5 million water quality tests to partners working in international relief and development annually. |    |
| Ensuring urban environments and public spaces are safer | Our fire detection products protect buildings and critical assets with an aggregate area of more than 6,000 square kilometres. |   |
| Protecting lives | Our gas sensor products protect the safety of more than 300,000 people every day. | |
| Keeping workers safe | Our interlock products protect workers’ safety in more than 42,000 manufacturing and other facilities. | |
| Supporting the energy transition | We protect more than 17,000 wind turbines by supplying over 33,000 fire suppression systems. |  |
| Supporting mothers and babies |
We monitor more than 700,000 births per year, helping caregivers identify and manage trends that could be dangerous to mother and baby during childbirth. |
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| Delivering value to society through cataract surgery | More than £600 million per annum of estimated economic value attributable to our cataract surgery technology. | |
| Delivering value to society by avoiding food waste | More than £4 million per annum of estimated economic value attributable to avoided food waste within the meat processing industry (2022) |  |
1. These metrics are approximate estimates, based on best available data and a number of management assumptions about usage of our products. The key assumptions are set out in our Key impact assumptions document.
