Responsible Care is a unique and defining initiative of the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA). Since its launch in 1985, Responsible Care helps drive continuous improvement in the safety, health, and environmental performance and to open communication about its activities and achievements. It also commits the industry to dialogue and working with stakeholders at the local, national, and international levels.
National chemical industry associations around the world are responsible for the detailed implementation of Responsible Care in their own countries. Responsible Care is currently run in 47 countries, the latest addition being Venezuela in 2002.
Back in 1995, Cheminova together with FDKI (The Association of Danish Chemical Industries) adopted the Responsible Care programme.
The objectives of the programme are:
1. Company Policy
The company should develop a policy of environment, safety, and health with future-oriented objectives. This policy should form constituent part of the overall policy and strategy of the company.
The company policy on environment, safety, and health should involve the entire organisation of the company and be taken into account of the planning and implementation of all company activities.
2. Employees' Commitment and Responsibility
The company should keep their employees at all levels well informed on the company policy on environment, safety, and health.
The company should foster commitment and responsibility among its employees and ensure an active employee contribution to fulfil the objectives. The company should promote individual alertness among employees to sources of pollution and issues relevant to safety and health.
The company should establish well-defined responsibilities among its employees and offer regular and adequate training enabling the employees to fulfil their responsibilities.
3. Efficiency
The company should strive at the lowest achievable impact on the surrounding as a whole by:
- minimising the use of raw materials and energy
- minimising the process emissions
- minimising the risk of accidents and limiting the consequences of possible accidents
- minimising the health risk for employees.
New processes should be planned, and existing processes should be adapted and improved with regard to the technical and economic feasibility and the demands of society.
4. Monitoring
The company should monitor at regular intervals process emissions to the working environment and the surrounding environment, preferably by generally approved methods.
The company should register all accidents and incidents and investigate the events and causes with a view to utilising the experience for future prevention. The company monitoring should form the basis of regular documentation of results and improvements achieved for environment, safety, and health. The company should regularly evaluate performance compared to objectives.
5. Product development
In developing new products the company should take into account the total consumption of raw material and energy resources during the production, use, and disposal after use, or of residual products formed during production or use.
6. Communication
The company should co-operate openly with the competent authorities on issues relevant to environment, safety, and health.
The company should provide adequate documentation on such issues to the authorities.
On the basis of the documentation provided by the company to the authorities the company can regularly inform neighbours and other stakeholders in the society on issues of environment, safety, and health.
7. Customers
The company should ensure that customers receive all relevant information on correct processing and use of the company's products including information on disposal of residual products and information of relevance for subsequent processing to the extent possible.
8. Suppliers
The company should encourage suppliers to deliver environmentally sound raw materials and products.
By means of specific requests and instruction the company should ensure that suppliers of equipment and subcontractors are chosen among those who fulfil demands derived from the company policy on environment, safety, and health.
9. Transport
The company should ensure safe and regulatory compliant transport to and from the company by making requests to transporters including relevant training and instruction of drivers and other transport employees.
10. Co-operation
The company should encourage its co-operators to aim at a level for environment, safety, and health protection corresponding to its own level.
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