• No legal action in respect of compliance with local health and safety legislation occurred at any location. This significant achievement occurred against a backdrop of corporate restructuring entailing the expansion of some facilities and closure of others.
• In July 1999, the company's joint venture plant with Nihon Medi-Physics won an Award in Japan's National Safety Week for completing 2.5 million accident free working hours.
• Assessments were conducted on HS&E practices and compliance at nine facilities. While these highlighted areas for improved performance, no critical defects in the management systems or practices in place were found.
• In North America, a major focus for HS&E activity was to ensure the safe exit from redundant facilities in Milwaukee, Cleveland and Alameda and the consequent redesign, restructure and deployment of manufacturing and R & D staff and activities into the company's facility at Piscataway.

Environmental Responsibility

• Fugitive emissions of volatile organics were reduced at Rensselaer manufacturing facility in USA. (The plant has now been sold to a management led consortium).
• Waste water discharges were cut by new treatment plant at Amersham Buchler, an Imaging production facility in Germany.
• An independent study of discharges into the marine environment at Lindesnes concluded that the sea bed fauna in the vicinity of the discharge point was healthy, diverse and showed no sign of industrial pollution.
• Environmental Management System pilot studies were conducted at Lindesnes, Norway, Munich, Germany, Cork, Ireland and TARC, USA (this R&D facility has now been closed).
• A preliminary assessment was made of the environmental impact of UK operations in CO2 equivalents using UK Government guidance. This model will be refined in 2000 and guidance sought upon its application and relevance.
• A research programme into the uptake of organic tritium by flounder in the Severn estuary is underway at our Cardiff Laboratories. An ambitious programme to introduce novel recovery and recycling technologies for waste tritium and carbon 14 is also underway.
• Year on year reductions in most radioisotopes discharged to the atmosphere were achieved at all UK nuclear licensed sites.

Community Responsibility

• In the UK the company supports Business in the Community and qualifies for Membership of its PerCent Club by donating over one percent of UK profits to charities and 'good causes'.
• The exterior boundaries of the Piscataway and South Plainfield, New Jersey, manufacturing plant have been greatly enhanced through sympathetic fencing, landscaping and tree planting following consultation with the local community.
• In Amersham, the company has contributed time and know-how to saving a local residential environmental education centre for schoolchildren from closure and forming a charitable trust to help the centre fund its long term future and development.
• In Taiwan, diagnostic imaging agents were donated to the health authorities following the 1999 earthquake.
• Bottled water was distributed to neighbours in New Jersey following disruption to water supplies in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd.
• In Cardiff, many staff are involved in a Business in the Community programme to assist in reading and mentoring schemes at local schools.
• The company's SET to Help programme to provide science, engineering and technology skills assistance has grown to embrace 26 schools in the Amersham area.
• In Lindesnes, Norway, the company helped fund the expansion of Spngareid Grendehus, the local nursery school, and the restoration in Mandal of the childhood home of the Norwegian sculptor, Gustav Vigeland and artist, Emanuel Vigeland.