Environment and Safety
Protecting our employees and the environment.
For the protection of our employees and the environment, Amphenol Ltd is committed to be compliant with all applicable environmental, health and safety regulations.
We want our commitment towards environmental, health and safety issues to run through our entire organisation. We provide all of our employees with relevant training courses, so they can make decision and take action in accordance to our environmental and safety policies. We communicate openly with our employees, partners, local authorities, and other interested parties regarding environmental and safety issues.
Health & Safety
Amphenol Ltd provide its employees and visitors safe and secure working facilities. Safety and loss prevention is our priority.
For questions regarding Amphenol Ltd’s Environmental actions and Compliance, please contact our Health & Safety Team.
Our objective is to promote safety:
- By providing to our employees safety training courses such as Fire, Electric authorisation, and First-aid.
- By implementing risk preventive actions identified through risk analyses.
- By integrating safety into the processes
RoHS
RoHS – the UK’s Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2012, as amended – require that the homogeneous materials within new electrical and electronic equipment must contain less than 0.1% by weight of lead, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP), diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP), and less than 0.01% Cadmium.
A list of exemptions allowing higher levels of the above substances in specific items is given in Schedule A2 of The Hazardous Substances and Packaging (Legislative Functions and Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020. Some additional, broader exemptions, for example equipment intended for Military purposes, are also permitted in Schedule 1 Part 2 of the UK 2012 Regulations.

Amphenol Limited Statement
Although most of Amphenol Limited’s products are outside the scope of the UK ROHS Regulations, either because they are components, or as they are specifically manufactured for use in the Military or Aerospace sectors, Amphenol Limited is still committed to reducing or eliminating hazardous substances, using substitutes as and when they become available to the industry.
- Lead – The use of lead is subject to ongoing phase out by Amphenol Limited across its present product ranges. Aluminium and copper alloys containing lead are typically covered by ROHS exemptions 17 and 18 (ie EU ROHS exemptions 6b-II and 6c).
Many customers in the Aerospace, Military and Transport sectors have requested that Amphenol Limited continue to use ‘Leaded Solder’ for their specific applications and wherever possible, Amphenol Limited will accommodate the requests.
- Cadmium – Cadmium plated parts are not RoHS compliant. Alternative plating finishes to Cadmium are available from Amphenol Limited, typical products being Black Zinc Nickel, Zinc Cobalt, Nickel, Stainless Steel and Nickel Aluminium Bronze.
- Hexavalent Chromium – Black Zinc Nickel, Zinc Cobalt, Nickel, Stainless Steel and Nickel Aluminium Bronze finishes are all ROHS compliant with respect to hexavalent chromium.
- Mercury, PBDE, PBB, DEHP, BBP, DBP, DIBP – The homogeneous materials within the connector products manufactured and sold by Amphenol Limited do not contain these substances in levels exceeding 0.1% w/w.
For further information relating to RoHS, please email erica.moore@amphenol.co.uk
Last revised June 2024
The REACH Regulation
REACH is aimed at improving the protection of human health and the environment through better and earlier identification of the properties of chemical substances as well as progressive substitution of the most dangerous chemicals when suitable alternatives have been identified.
REACH regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 covering the management and safe use of chemicals came into force in the EU in June 2007. Since leaving the EU, the UK has worked under the ‘UK REACH’, which mirrors the EU regulation. REACH is aimed at improving the protection of human health and the environment through better and earlier identification of the properties of chemical substances as well as progressive substitution of the most dangerous chemicals when suitable alternatives have been identified.

REACH regulation
Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs)
Under REACH, the most hazardous substances on the market are gradually being added to a list known as the ‘Candidate List’, with the view of ensuring their use is correctly controlled, and that safer alternatives are found as soon as possible. The substances on this list are termed ‘Substances of Very High Concern’ (SVHCs). Cadmium was added to the Candidate List, and hence became a SVHC, on 20/06/2013, and lead was added on 27/06/2018.
Article 33 of REACH
Article 33 requires that any supplier of an article in the UK REACH containing SVHCs above the threshold of 0.1% weight by weight must provide sufficient information to the customer to allow safe use of the article.
The relevance of SVHCs to Amphenol Ltd’s products
- Lead is present above 0.1% in many of the copper alloys, and some aluminium alloys, used in Amphenol Ltd products; leaded solder is used on certain ranges.
- Cadmium is used as a plating finish on some of Amphenol Ltd’s products, and a small number of products contain cadmium pigment in rubber seals.
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