International Programme
An ongoing challenge for any international company is the implementation of practices that are collectively followed and universally understood, across geographies.
We believe skin care practice is an important part of this challenge as all employees, wherever their location in the world, have skin care needs.
Effective skin care practice will help deliver healthy skin and high standards of hand hygiene, reducing the risk of illness, absence from work and the associated costs as a result of skin disorders and the spread of potentially harmful germs.
For international companies there is great potential for inconsistency in the provision of effective skin care for employees. This can lead to an otherwise avoidable increase in risk.
The causes of inconsistency can be:
- Differing levels of awareness among employees about effective skin care practice
- Varying levels of priority placed on skin care by local management
- Multiple suppliers across all geographies providing varying standards of care
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To meet the complex and diverse skin care needs of large international companies, Deb has developed the unique Deb International Programme.
The Deb International Programme can be implemented anywhere in the world and comprises three discrete Deb Skin Safety Regimes which address the specific skin care needs of large and diverse companies. The Programme is designed to help improve skin protection and hand hygiene in every aspect of a company’s operation.
| Skin Safety Regime: | Primary Objective: |
|---|---|
| Industrial | Personal protection for employees in an industrial workplace. More... |
| Food | Reducing the risk from foodborne bacteria. More... |
| Commercial | Reducing the spread of germs in offices and public facilities. More... |
In addition, we have a discrete healthcare regime which satisfies all occupational, community and acute healthcare needs.
Due to scale and diversity, international companies can be regarded as ‘micro-economies’ in their own right, with distinct skin care requirements in different parts of their organisation. From the factory floor to office areas, across canteens and health centres, differing skin care needs are addressed for the first time by Deb’s dedicated programme.
All Deb Skin Safety Regimes utilise The Deb Skin Care System™, which comprises of a complementary range of skin care products and locally delivered support activities tailored for each regime. This ‘system’ has the flexibility to cater for differing cultural and geographical needs.
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A Deb skin care regime will reduce the cost of skin care provision in your business.
Deb offers the direct benefit of scale purchase and low cost-in-use product. In addition, there are indirect business costs associated with skin disorders and the spread of germs which are likely to be many times higher than the cost of skin care products themselves, including:
- Disruption cost and lost productivity through employee absence from work
- Reduced employee efficiency through illness at work
- Compensation claims arising from employee skin damage
- Associated administration and legal costs
- Brand damage through negative publicity
By choosing Deb as your skin care provider, you will benefit from one international standard of skin care across all your operations, greatly simplifying your ability to monitor and review the quality of provision.
This is supported by our ongoing commitment to hold regular management review meetings and conduct Annual Audits at each site, which involves system maintenance, a full review of requirements and the introduction of new products, services and measurement tools as appropriate. This allows compliance with a tailored skin care regime to be regularly monitored and reviewed with senior management.
21 separate studies* from around the world show that good hand hygiene practices can reduce illness, sickness absence and associated cost on average by around 40%
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Read the philosophy behind our International Programme products...
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The Deb Global Product Range has been carefully devised to meet the specific skin safety application needs and cultural diversities of any international organisation.
The range is under-pinned by the continual development and application of our expertise, gained over 65 years with 'best in class' formulations and our dedicated, thoughtfully designed dispensing systems. Our products are created with the final objective in mind – every person in the organisation doing the right thing with regard to skin safety.
Our product philosophy is guided by the following principles:
- Performance — products that are ‘fit-for-purpose’ to do the specific job required of them, that are safe and hygienic for regular use, and are robust and low maintenance
- Pleasant to use — products that people like to use and prefer to use, encouraging appropriate usage and compliance with skin safety regimes
- Quick and easy to use — products that minimise time in use and are packaged for a convenient and appropriate location within any workplace or public facility environment
- Cost effective in use — using dedicated dispensing systems that provide the right amount of product for each application and minimising wastage
- Innovation — bringing innovative skin safety products and services to customers regularly, such as incorporating ‘Deb Foam Technology®’ which people prefer to use, saving time and money, and minimising wastage
- Environmental awareness — operating internationally recognised environmental management systems throughout our business to meet or exceed our environmental responsibilities and, wherever possible, achieve internationally recognised environmental accreditations; such as Green Seal™, Eco-Label, Eco-Logo and Environmental Choice
- Tested & supported — using independent scientific data and rigorous testing protocols to verify the performance of our formulations and dispensing systems. Our team of technical and regulatory experts also ensure that Deb products comply with appropriate local and international regulatory standards
- Universally understood — providing users with simple instructions that use icons, colour-coding and multiple languages to encourage correct product usage and compliance with a rigorous skin safety environment.
- Group ID — one standard global product identification coding system for all SKUs in the Deb Global Product Range
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We recognise that our greatest impact on the environment arises from the use of our products.
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