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Draeger supports Children's Safety Education charity
12 December 2024
DRAEGER SAFETY UK has marked a 10-year partnership with The Children’s Safety Education Foundation (CSEF), one of the business’s charity partners.

The relationship sees Draeger Safety UK provide funding to help enable CSEF to conduct its ‘Respect’ safety educational programme in secondary schools across the UK, and the latest schools to be supported have been selected based on their locations near the business’s three UK bases in Blyth, Aberdeen and Hemel Hempstead.
‘Respect – Your Life, Your Choice’ is a national citizenship and anti-social behaviour programme, designed to foster the social and emotional development of young people aged 11 – 16. It complements the Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education curriculum by providing preventative education around topics such as bullying, drugs, gangs, hate crime, discrimination, vandalism and anti-social behaviour.
Juliana Okodoa, a senior quality engineer at Draeger Safety UK who is also one of the firm’s Community Champions comments: “Being able to support young people in this way is something that many of our team feel very passionately about. Keeping people safe is very much in line with our mission as a business, so we are delighted to be able to play a small part in helping CSEF team carry out their important work.”
Steven Foster of the Children’s Safety Education Foundation comments, “The support such as that offered by Draeger Safety UK is vital in helping to support our work with young people in schools across the UK, inspiring them to think differently, reject harmful behaviours, respect their communities and raise their aspirations.”
The Children’s Safety Education Foundation was established in 2004 and works with over 100 schools across the UK. It estimates that it has helped over 1 million children since its inception.
Draeger Safety UK Ltd is part of The Dräger Group, a family company founded in 1889 with over 16,000 employees worldwide (789 in the UK). It is one of the global leaders in safety and medical technology and its safety products are used and trusted by a wide variety of customers across sectors including utilities, oil and gas, renewable energy, emergency services and manufacturing.
Earlier this year, the company announced that it intends to acquire land and develop plans for a potential new facility in North East England, reaffirming its commitment to the area and its 497 staff based in Blyth.