Chemical Manufacturers Association Responsible Care

Chemical Manufacturers Association, Improving Air Quality Guidance for Estimating Fugitive Emissions from Equipment, 2nd ed., CMA, Washington, D.C., 1989. Chemical Manufacturers Association, Responsible Care, Employee Health and Safety Code of Management Practices, CMA, Washington, D.C., 1992. 

Chemical Manufacturers Association, Responsible Care Is Template for Taking Effective Action, CMA News 18 no. 9, Nov. 1990 pp. 11—12. 

Chemical Manufacturers Association. Responsible Care Process Safety Code of Management Practices. Washington, DC, 1990. 

Association of International Chemical Manufacturers. 2009. Responsible Care Committee. Available at http //www.aicm.cn/wyhl.aspx id=3 (accessed December 26,2013). 

Responsible Care is the incentive sponsored by the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA). Any CMA company must embrace the philosophy of continuous improvements of health, safety, and environmental efforts accompanied by an open communication to the pubHc about products and their production. Thus the total impact of any product on the environment, from the extraction of raw materials, their beneftciation, transportation, production of final product, and disposal of the product at the end of its useful life, must be taken into consideration. 

Chemical Manufacturers Association Code. In 1988, the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) adopted an initiative called Responsible Care A PubHc Commitment (33). Members of the CMA commit themselves, as an obligation of membership, to improving performance in response to pubHc concerns about the impact of chemicals on health, safety, and environmental quaUty. 

Chemical Manufacturers Association, 1300 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Va., 22209, (703) 741-5000, which offers information about Responsible Care (a registered trademark of CMA) and regulatory impact on the chemical industry. 

Tolling operations should be held to the same principles of public openness and communication espoused by forward thinking companies in the chemical industry. In 1988, the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) initiated the Responsible Care initiative to assist in making this possible. Its goal is to lead the chemical industry in ethical practices that increasingly benefit society, the economy and the environment. 

A plant team working with the Pampa fire department brought the fire under control. The Chemical Manufacturers Association s Community Awareness Emergency Response Program (CARE), developed after the Bhopal disaster was credited with effectiveness of their efforts in putting out the fire. 

Commitments to industiy programs If your company is committed to an industry initiative, such as the American Petroleum Institute s RP750 or the Chemical Manufacturers Association s Responsible Care program, you will want to ensure that you are consistent with the framework used by that program. 

The Chemical Manufacturers Association s Code of Management Practice for Process Safety is oriented toward the chemical industry, and describes the elements of a process safety management program as part of CMA s Responsible Care program. 

Chemical Manufacturers Association. "Codes of Management Practices." Responsible Care . Washington, DC Chemical Manufacturers Association. 

Plant management personnel will have significantly greater roles in working with the community, for example, under the Responsible Care program, of the Chemical Manufacturers Association [274-276] ... 

Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA), 19 414 Responsible Care program, 9 647... 

What do members of the Chemical Manufacturers Association pledge in the Responsible Care program ... 

Manufacturers Chemical Association (Responsible Care) http //es.epa.gov/techinfo/facts/cma/cmacommo.html... 

A Pollution Prevention Report from the Chemical Manufacturers Association. A Chemical Industry Progress Report (1988-1992), Responsible Care—A Public Commitment. 

CMA (Chemical Manufacturers Association), Improving Responsible Care Implementation, Enhancing Performance and Credibility, Washington, DC, 1993. 

Another industry initiative, the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) Responsible Care Process Safety Code of Management Practices, refers to operating procedures by noting the need for "current, complete documentation of process design, operating parameters, and procedures" (emphasis added). 

EMS Ashland Distribution and Ashland Specialty Chemical are stated to be industry leaders in implementing the Responsible Care Codes of Management Practice . Even so a no score has been awarded since no mention is made of any involvement in the Management Verification System run by the US Chemical Manufacturers Association. 

The Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) Responsible Care Program is designed to provide CMA members with guidance regarding safety, health, and environmental quality. The program includes six codes of practice covering Community Awareness and Emergency Response (CAER), Pollution Prevention, Process Safety, Distribution, Employee Health and Safety, and Product Stewardship. 

It is certainly difficult to find any redeeming aspect to this story. However, it did lead the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) to adopt, in 1988, its Responsible Care program. The first step was the voluntary Community Awareness Emergency Response program. While chemical companies have demonstrated commitment to these values, today there is renewed concern over protecting chemical plants from terrorists. 

The Chemical Manufacturers Association was renamed the American Chemistry Council in 2000. All members of the American Chemistry Council must adhere to the Responsible Care Codes of Management Practices and report to the Council on their implementation. The Codes were intended to cover every aspect of chemical operations. Responsible Care is described at http //www.americanchemistry.com/s responsiblecare/ sec.asp CID=1298 DID=4841. 

ACC stated that the industry group has welcomed the high level of cooperation between all parties involved to produce an effective agreement... [on] HPV chemicals. The framework is an improvement over normal command and control regulatory approaches and is a possible model for future cooperative regulatory efforts. It is also a further demonstration of the industry s commitment to product stewardship and Responsible Care. Chemical Manufacturer Association. Special Alert, Attachment 1,4 (Oct. 8,1998). 

In addition to ISO 14001, other well known environmental management systems include Responsible Care , adopted by the American Chemistry Council (formerly known as the Chemical Manufacturers Association) in 1988, Eco-Management Auditing Scheme (EMAS), adopted by the Council of the European Community in 1993, and Environmental Standard BS 7750, adopted by the United Kingdom in 1994. 

The perception that the industry has not been working hard to improve, is not borne out by the facts. An initiative named Responsible Care which is the chemical industry s commitment to continuous improvement in all aspects of health, safety and environmental protection was launched in Canada in 1984. It was adopted by the USA in 1988 and has been spreading around the world since then. Apart from North America and Europe which are discussed below, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, India, Zimbabwe and other countries have adopted it [5]. The European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) has drawn up guidelines which are given in Figure 1.1 [5]. In the UK, where the Chemical Industries Association (CIA) makes participation in the Responsible Care initiative a condition of membership, discharges of red list substances (compounds of mercury and cadmium, DDT, malathion, triphenyl and tributyl tin, etc.) fell by 40% between 1990 and 1992 whilst special wastes (compounds of arsenic, antimony, barium, mercury, nickel, vanadium, etc.) disposed of off site fell by 9% [6]. The Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) in the USA also makes participation a condition of membership and one of its Pollution Prevention Code requirements is very relevant to this book ... 

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