Stewardship product

Product stewardship is a way that everyone who designs, makes, sells, uses, and recycles or disposes of products can help protect safety, health, and environmental quality. It is a concept that calls on everyone in the product life cycle to share responsibility. It is also known as extended product responsibility, product stewardship calls on those in the product life cycle—manufacturers, retailers, users, and disposers—to share responsibility for reducing the environmental impacts of products. 

Product stewardship recognizes that product manufacturers must take on new responsibilities to reduce the environmental footprint of their products. However, real change cannot always be achieved by producers acting alone retailers, consumers, and the existing waste management infrastructure need to help to provide the most workable and cost-effective solutions. Solutions and roles will vary from one product system to another. 

Verify conformance with company policy and governmental regulations. Ensure that employees and contractors understand their related responsibilities. 

Identify Requirements—Processes are provided to identify applicable legal requirements from governmental laws and regulations, ensure these are in conformance with OE policies and requirements. 

Communication and Reporting—Processes are provided to ensure employees are aware, understand, and comply with identified requirements. Employees are encouraged to report existing or potential violations of law or company policies, without fear of retribution or company adverse action. 

An important consideration with respect to the resource, environmental, and toxicological impacts of products is product stewardship, basically the control exercised in their use and ultimate fate. Product stewardship is relatively facile for products used within an enterprise or for those that are leased with responsibility for their fate retained by the owner rather than the user. Stewardship becomes more problematic for products sold to the consumer market. Refundable deposits such as those placed on beverage containers in some localities help ensure the recycling of products. Recycling is also increased by the ready availability of recycling centers or bins where spent itons or materials may be deposited. 

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Specialty Monomers Product Stewardship Manual, Form No. 505-0007-1290JB, Dow Chemical USA, Midland, Mich., 1990. 

Product Stewardship—Styrene Plastics, Eorm. No. 304-109-1280, The Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich, 1980. 

Specialty Chlorinated Solvents Product Stewardship Manual, 1991 ed. The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Mich., form 100-6170-90HYC. 

The client should learn about the toller s planned operation, and as part of their product stewardship responsibilities, audit the toller regarding HS E practices. 

Does your company have a documented product stewardship policy, or a health, safety and environmental policy which incorporates the management of chemicals through their total life cycle, thus minimizing adverse effects on human health and well-being and on the environment If so please attach. ... 

Product stewardship The management practice supporting a philosophy of service to customers and minimizing effects on health and the environment throughout the complete life cycle of a product. 

If your company has established a formal product stewardship or other major intracompany program, a charter designating a work group, committee, or task force may have been developed that you can use as a model... 

A business unit s system for establishing a product stewardship program... 

The concept of Product Stewardship in the polyurethanes industry is discussed, as one of the six elements of the Responsible Care programme used by companies. A Product Stewardship programme is said to demonstrate commitment to Responsible Care and ensures health, safety and environmental protection through active assessment of products throughout their life cycle from... 

The Product Stewardship philosophy of the Dow Chemical Co. is described. It is a management practice committed to making health, safety and environmental protection an integral part of every stage of a product s life. The implementation of a multi-level training and auditing programme is discussed. 3 refs. 

Polyurethanes Expo 98. Conference proceedings. Dallas, Tx., 17th-20th Sept. 1998, p.669-70. 43C6 POLYURETHANE DIVISION PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP IN ACTION SPI,Polyurethane Div. 

SPI s Polyurethane Division has an active Product Stewardship Issues Group, which has made available a variety of education materials and workshops. Emphasis has been placed on the educational materials, group s stewardship philosophy, focusing on safety and health issues and the literature available. Some examples of the literature available are listed. 

Product Stewardship Enhancement of Process Safety Knowledge — —... 

If your product can pose a chemical reactivity hazard by itself or in combination with other materials, good product stewardship includes providing safety-related information to customers and users. Other aspects of product stewardship, some of which are also applicable to chemical reactivity hazard management, are outlined in the American Chemistry Council s Product Stewardship Responsible Care Code (ACC 2001). 

Information related to broader industry issues, newly recognized hazards, and lessons learned from near misses and actual incidents can also be shared with customers and users as part of product stewardship. Trade, professional, and other cooperative organizations such as universities and local emergency planning committees (LEPCs) can be effective vehicles for information sharing, in addition to individual company initiatives. 

Contractors, contract manufacturers, transporters, warehouses, and end users of reactive chemicals should be informed not only of chemical reactivity hazards, but provided information or training on how to control them. This should be done as part of product life-cycle management and Responsible Care/Product Stewardship. Specific issues needing to be addressed may include but probably are not limited to those that are highlighted during the hazard/risk analyses (Section 4.5), including ... 

Product stewardship, chemical reactivity hazard management, 29-30 Protective systems, documentation, 105 Pyrophorics, screening methods, 43-45... 

Since PTT is a new commercial product, the Shell Chemical Company, as the company which first introduced it to the market, took the responsibility of product stewardship [112], and registered the polymer on the chemical inventory lists in several countries. As a high-molecular-weight polymer, PTT is biologically inactive and requires safe handling like many other commercial polymers. 

Branson, D.R. A new capacitor fluid - A case study in product stewardship, in Aquatic Toxicology and Hazard Evaluation, ASTM Special Technical Publication 657, Mayer, F.L. and Hamelink, J.L., Eds. (Philadelphia. PA American Society for Testing and Materials, 1977), pp. 44-61. 

Product stewardship is a more management-related guiding principle, in which the substance manufacturer s assumption of responsibility and the supply chain perspective are of vital importance. 

Whether business development should transfer new products to sales when they become mature (e.g., once a multiyear supply contract has been concluded) is a controversial issue. From the perspective of customer orientation, the product stewardship should not be transferred, particularly if the... 

Once the areas for improvement have been identified, the details of data collected can be increased according to the requirements of the improvement and measurement effort. In some instances, decisions to track and measure product stewardship information (e.g., supplier performance) may be based on nonbnsiness criteria, such as responsible care compliance. 

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