Responsible Care®
We are proud to participate in the American Chemistry Council Responsible Care® initiative.
Chemistry is essential to the products and services that help make our lives safer, healthier, and better. Through the Responsible Care® initiative and Responsible Care® Global Charter, our industry has made a worldwide commitment to improve our environment, health, safety, and security performance. Accordingly, we believe in, subscribe to, and pledge to operate our business according to the following guiding principles:
- To lead our company in ethical ways that increasingly benefit society, the economy, and the environment
- To develop products that can be manufactured, transported, used, and disposed of or recycled safely
- To work with customers, carriers, suppliers, distributors, and contractors to foster the safe and secure use, transport, and disposal of chemicals, and provide hazard and risk information that can be accessed and applied in their operations and products
- To design and operate our facilities in a safe, secure, and environmentally sound manner
- To instill a culture throughout all levels of our organizations to continually identify, reduce, and manage process safety risks
- To promote pollution prevention, minimization of waste, and conservation of energy and other critical resources at every stage of the life cycle of our products
- To cooperate with governments at all levels as well as organizations in the development of effective and efficient safety, health, environmental and security laws, regulations, and standards
- To support education and research on health, safety, environmental effects, and security of our products and processes
- To communicate product, service, and process risks to our stakeholders and listen to and consider their perspectives regarding our procedures
- To make continual progress towards our goal of no accidents, injuries, or harm to human health or the environment from our products and operations; to openly report our health, safety, environmental, and security performances
- To seek continual improvement in our integrated Responsible Care Management System® to address environmental, health, safety, and security performances
- To promote Responsible Care® by encouraging and assisting others to adhere to these Guiding Principles
