Socially responsible and sustainable development

K. L. Coyne, Overview Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development Standards. Presentation made to The Auditing Roundtable, New York Metro-New England Regional Meeting, March 6, 2002. 

Chemistry Education for Socially Responsible and Sustainable Development... 

Deloitte, 2011, Zarzqdzanie ryzykiem. Spoteezna odpowiedzialnosc hiznesu i zrdwnowazony rozwoj [Risk Management. Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development],... 

Although many safety issues have gained recognition in the shared workplaces and many tools and methods have been developed (especially for contractors in con-stmction sites), there are still many HSEQ and security threats related to supplier s management in global business environment. The whole supply chain needs to be considered and a comprehensive safety culture in shared workplace needs to be established. If company seeks to perform higher than average in the terms of HSEQ, they must ensure of corporate social responsibility and sustainable processes. HSEQ AP can be one method to support that purpose. 

There are many different ways of looking at the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainable Development and the impact on the role of business and industry. However, there are, in our opinion, no major substantial differences between CSR as we have described it in this report and sustainable development as it originally was presented in Our Common Future. Or to put it another way every aspect of CSR should already be covered by sustainable development (DNV, 2002). 

Protect Human Life . In it reference is made to the principles of sustain-able development and it states Sumitomo Chemical recognizes the importance of these issues and is performing its business activities fulfilling social responsibility and giving due consideration to those problems . Discussion in this section centres on developing products with low environmental impact, those that benefit human health and recycling of plastics. 

Since the early 1980s, consumers seeking environmental-Mendly products and organizations have increasingly become aware of environmental management systems, socially responsible behaviour, sustainable growth and development around the world (Phau and Ong, 2007 Saicheua et al., 2012). 

ISO 26000, the standard on social responsibility, provides guidance for businesses and organizations to use to develop good organizational governance and labor practices and address issues of fair operating practices and consumer protection and access to information, community involvement and development, and environment and sustainable development. 

Today s world is one of complex and inter-dependent socio-technical systems in which responsible human beings, organizations, and communities must develop and operate safe and reliable technologies ethically and transparently, so as to contribute to the health and welfare of society. Social justice and sustainability must factor into this equation. 

Environmental protection, Economic growth and social development known as three E s. The mission is to implement an environmentally friendly energy system. If we are to achieve sustainable development, we will need to display greater responsibility for energy, economy and environment. 

Sustainability overall objective for human beings formulated by the United Nations in the 1990s is to ensure sustainable development for future generations chemical companies have already started to translate this objective into their industry practice with respects to products developed and sold, energy and natural resource efficiency in their processes, climate protection, corporate social responsibility for the workforce as well as stakeholders in production and consuming areas sustainability as an objective also already inspired operations research and supply chain literature (see for example Zhou et al. 2000 Al-Sharrah et al. 2002)... 

The chemical industry must rethink the next set of standards and not simply push Responsible Care to the next incremental step. Sustainable development means economic growth that does not deplete irreplaceable resonrces, does not destroy ecological systems, and helps reduce some of the world s gross social inequalities. 

The current reality is that most chemical companies are looking at Responsible Care, ecoefficiency, and waste reduction as their response to sustainability. The key to sustainable development is in balancing the economic concerns with the environmental and social issues. 

It is understood as the promotion of practices by responsible businesses that are useful both for business itself and society and promote social, economic, and ecologically sustainable development through maximizing the positive impacts of business on society and minimizing the negative ones. 

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