Responsible care initiative

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. 

One way to make the importance of this clear is by including a business ethics provision in the tolling contract. The CMA Responsible Care initiative can be called out in such a provision and applied to both parties in the contract if they have both subscribed to its code of ethics. This is discussed further in Chapter 3, Mutual Agreements, Obligations and Contract Considerations. 

Chemical Mannfactnrers Assoc., Responsible Care Initiative, 1988. 

Association (ABMA), recommendations for boiler-water limits, 23 221t American Chemical Society Committee on Nomenclature and Notation, 17 385 American Chemistry Council (ACC) 14 204 codes of management practices, 21 580 Process Safety Code, 21 831 Responsible Care initiatives, 25 337 American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH),... 

Responsible Care A Public Commitment initiative, 21 831, 24 197 Responsible Care companies, 19 414 Responsible Care initiatives, 24 163 25 337... 

The chemical industry has had a very bad press for many years and some of this has been earned. To overcome this image it began its Responsible Care initiative to try to encourage the chemical industry to combat the many allegations being made against it. This initiative demonstrates the year on year improvements in health, safety and environmental performance using... 

ACC) American Chemistry Council, The Business of Chemistry Essential to our Quality of Life and the New Economy. American Chemistry Council, Arlington, Virginia, 2002. CCPA, 1999 Emissions Inventory and Five-Year Projections, Reducing Emissions 8 A Responsible Care Initiative. CCPA, Ottawa 1999. 

The BASF Group s Responsible Care initiative consists of many elements, two of which are described in more detail below. 

Product stewardship issues will increasingly shape the Responsible Care initiative in future years. The ICC A will establish a strengthened global programme to evaluate and manage chemical-related risks and benefits by developing a unified product stewardship management system approach. This approach will be in place by 2006. 

Seveso, Italy chemical plant incident 1984 Responsible Care Initiative launched in Canada... 

EMS the CER states that the Methanex corporation has applied the compliance component of CCPA s Responsible Care initiative on a global basis . All sites have been verified, and reverification is planned for 2001. 

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 ... 

Another example is the Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies at Local Level (APELL) program, also launched in 1988. APELL was originally based on the Community Awareness and Emergency Response (CAER) program, which later became part of the chemical industry s Responsible Care initiative. It includes elements of the EU Seveso Directive and the U.S. Right-to-Know initiative (UNEP, 1997). 

Mazurek, J. 1998. The Use of Unilateral Agreements in the United States The Responsible Care Initiative. OECD Working Party on Economic and Environmental PoUcy Integration. ENV/EPOC/GEEI(98)25/FINAL. Available at http // search.oecd.org/officialdocuments/displaydocumentpdf/ doclanguage=en c ote=ENV/EPOC/GEEI(98)25/FINAL (accessed December 27,2013). 

While not directly safety-related, responsibility for communication with news media should be set. The relevant parts of the plan should be made available to the public, in accord with CAER or the Responsible Care initiative (Section 7.3). 

ICC A Responsible Care Initiative. http //www.icca-chem.org/en/Home/Responsible-care/ (accessed March 14, 2014). 

Chemistry is essential to the products and services that help make our lives safer, healthier, and better. Through the Responsible Care initiative and the Responsible Care Global Charter our industry has made a worldwide commitment to improve our environmental, health, safety and security performance. Accordingly, we believe and subscribe to the following principles ... 

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