With five manufacturing locations around the globe, Scott produces products that protect thousands of individuals each day from hazards including smoke, toxic fumes, combustible gases, falling objects and contaminants. The Scott product line includes Compressed Air Breathing Apparatus, Air-Purifying Respirators, Gas Detection and Thermal Imaging instruments, Compressors, Head, Face, Eye and Hearing protection, Decontamination Showers and Safety Signs and Markers.

Over the last five years Scott Health & Safety has undergone a significant period of change and development that has seen its parent company Tyco amalgamate together four separate operating companies Scott Health & Safety of Monroe, USA, Kemira Safety of Vaasa, Finland, Sabre Breathing Apparatus from Aldershot, England and Protector Technologies based in Skelmersdale, England and Sydney Australia. All of these companies were well respected leaders in a particular Personal Protective Equipment arena and together under one operating name of Scott Health & Safety the company has the opportunity to develop customer focused products and services for global markets, using the expertise that this enlarged Personal Protection Equipment group within Tyco can now offer.

Tyco International Ltd. itself is a global, diversified company that provides vital products and services to customers in five business segments: Fire & Security, Electronics, Healthcare, Engineered Products & Services, and Plastics & Adhesives. With 2003 revenue of $37 billion, Tyco employs 260,000 people world-wide. More information on Tyco can be found at www.tyco.com.

Scott Health & Safety’s range of products are marketed under three main global brands, Scott, Protector and Sabre all with revered reputations for protection & high quality that have been built on decades of innovative development programmes, all designed to deliver 5 key components: -

Optimum Protection

Simplicity of use

User comfort

Low through life costs

Simple maintenance

Conformity to relevant international standards is also a key company driver, but this is taken as a given in the company's new product development process, not a target, and Scott Health & Safety products usually significantly exceed the performance criteria laid down in international standards.

The company recognises that nobody uses Personal Protective Equipment because they want to; they wear it because they have to as part of their job. By working to these five key design parameters Scott Health & Safety’s products allow the user to concentrate on the job in hand, not on trying to remember how to use their safety apparatus.

The main driver behind our business remains as it always has been. To meet the needs of our customer and supply products and services that work in hostile environments where in truth the user would probably rather not be. Products that, through our careful design and comprehensive support mean the user specifies by choice - not just by necessity, products that are vital in protecting people.