Facility Information

DEESIDE, UK
MEDICAL DEVICES

Facts and Figures 

• The Deeside Technical Operations Facility manufactures and packages ostomy devices, medical devices, and wound healing (therapeutic) products. Many of our wound healing products are manufactured at the Rhymney facility and transferred to Deeside for packaging and marketing.
• The facility is approximately 63,000 square meters.
• The site is currently undergoing a major refurbishment programme. In 2004, the refurbishment of the offices in Unit 20, upgrading of the restaurant facilities, and improved traffic routes around the site to segregate lorries from other vehicles was completed. Additional projects, including installation of a lift tower to provide wheelchair access to upper floors, are in progress.

Economic Development

• The projected expenditure for 2004-2005 on EHS projects is about £370,500. Projects include:
  • Office refurbishment
  • Mechanised materials handling system in the warehouse
  • Installation of a fall arrest system for working at height
  • Refurbishment, installation, and commissioning of a production area for clean textile manufacturing in Unit 19
  • Centralized packaging project
• Total contribution to the local economy from the site for 2005 is estimated at £18 million and includes wages, bonus, pensions, and by facilitating the use of local contractors.
• Local charitable contributions in 2004-2005 is a donation of £5000 per annum to the North West Donations Committee. This is a joint venture between the Chester, Moreton, and Deeside sites to award funds to local organizations including schools, local hospitals, individual charities, and one-time requests for support.

Community and Social Progress

• ConvaTec employees continue to support the onsite blood donating sessions run by the National Blood service.
• An employee volunteer day took place at Wepre Park to support a local endangered species, the great crested newt, and its natural habitat.

Civic activities

• ConvaTec Deeside supports local schools with structured work experience placement for four to six students per year, generally of one or two week's duration.
• We support local schools' careers initiatives, including mock interviews and sessions to explain what career options are available.
• We also offer undergraduate work placements for a range of technical areas.
• The Colon Cancer Concern charity organization visited site in September 2004 with their Promotional Awareness trailer. It was well received and supported by employees and covered by the local press.

Awards and recognition

• Following the Welsh National Training Award in 2003 for Advance, which is a competency development program for operations personnel, the Learning and Development team have developed a programme Demo for the multi-skill roles of all site technicians.
• Deeside received a BMS Site Safety Award in 2003 for meeting the division goal. We have reduced our recordable accidents by 55 percent and our lost day case rate by 68 percent since 2001.

Support to local emergency response organizations

• We have an Emergency Response Team (ERT) consisting of approximately 25 voluntary members. The ERT is comprised of trained employees across all shifts who are responsible for managing any fire or spill emergency until the emergency services arrive.
• Fire training is given to all permanent employees and provided by an external fire training service.
• The facility has trained First Aid at Work. First Aiders play an active role in supporting and treating employees with ill health.
• The site has a team of First Aiders who are bi-annually trained in the use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).

Safety

• A Near Miss campaign was launched in September 2004. This increased the Near Miss reporting to the EHS community by 41 percent.
• At the beginning of 2004, Accident Investigation Training was provided for all personnel involved in accident investigations.
• Throughout the first half of 2004, approximately 600 operations and warehouse employees will attend a half-day "Practical Manual Handling" training.

Environmental Performance

• The site has reduced the use of energy consumption by 8.7 percent in 2004 from the 2001 baseline data. A 26 percent reduction in natural gas usage has been achieved from baseline year 2001 to 2004 recordings.
• The site is striving to achieve ISO 14001 certification. A pre-assessment was conducted early 2005.
• All employees participate in environmental awareness training.
• Computer-based Display Screen Equipment (DSE) training and awareness has commenced for all users.
• The site participated in the National Adult Learning week by offering a Learning@Workday drop-in center for all employees in May 2005.
• The significant environmental impacts onsite have been identified as greenhouse gas emissions from energy use and employee transportation, waste management, and the use of fossil fuels. These impacts are actively managed by the site, by setting and working on objectives to minimize these impacts. Our objectives include ten percent energy reduction, ten percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and 20 percent non-hazardous waste reduction by 2010.

Facility Contact Information

+44-12-4458-4000

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