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September 25, 2012
THE GLOBAL PRODUCT
STRATEGY AND HOW IT FITS
IN RESPONSIBLE CARE
Christina Franz
Senior Director, ACC
Agenda
Background and History
Global Charter and Global Product
Strategy
How Global Product Strategy Fits in Responsible
Care
ACC Strategic Review and Product Safety Code
United Nations
World Summit
Sustainable
Development
2002
Johannesburg
• Progress on sustainable
development disappointing since
1992 Earth Summit
• Johannesburg summit
implementation-oriented
• Important new targets set
• 2020 goal: chemicals are used in
ways that minimize significant
adverse impacts on human health
and the environment
Strategic
Approach to
International
Chemicals
Management
(SAICM)
• 2006 UNEP policy tool
• Endorsed by 100+
governments, ENGOs,
labor and health
organizations
• Policy framework to
promote chemical safety
globally
Strategic
Approach to
International
Chemicals
Management
(SAICM)
• Dubai Declaration – highlevel political
commitment
• Overarching Policy
Strategy setting for the
scope, needs,
objectives, financial
considerations,
principles, and
approaches
Strategic
Approach to
International
Chemicals
Management
(SAICM)
Overall Objective: Meet
2020 Goal
• Sound management of
chemicals throughout
life-cycle so that by
2020 chemicals are used
in ways that minimize
significant adverse
impacts on human
health and the
environment
Strategic
Approach to
International
Chemicals
Management
(SAICM)
• SAICM Global Plan of
Action with activities to
be implemented by
stakeholders, including
private sector, e.g.,
global chemical industry
through International
Council of Chemical
Associations (ICCA)
Strategic
Approach to
International
Chemicals
Management
(SAICM)
• ICCM, which adopted
SAICM, reconvenes every
3 years to review
progress of SAICM
implementation
• ICCM-3 September 17-21
Nairobi, Kenya
• ICCA active engagement
at ICCM Meetings
ICCA
Responsible
Care Global
Charter and
Global Product
Strategy
Industry Action Pre-WSSD
• ICCA Responsible Care (RC)
• ICCA Global Chemicals
Management Policy
• Long-Range Research Initiative
(LRI)
• High Production Volume (HPV)
• Regional communication
activities
ICCA Responsible
Care Global
Charter
Launched at
2006 ICCM-1
SAICM Adopted
• Recognition that industry
practices and performance
evolved since mid-1980s
• Shaped by consideration of
recommendations of
independent global
stakeholders
• Nine key elements going
beyond RC
ICCA
Responsible
Care Global
Charter
9 Key Elements
• Adopt Global RC Core
Principles
• Implement Fundamental
Features of National RC
Programs
• Commit to Advancing
Sustainable Development
• Continuously Improve and
Report Performance
• Enhance Chemical
Management Globally, i.e.,
product stewardship
ICCA
Responsible
Care Global
Charter
9 Key Elements
• Extend RC Along Value Chain
• Active Commitment to
Support National and Global
RC Governance
• Address Stakeholder
Expectations about Industry
Activities and Products
• Provide Appropriate
Resources to Implement RC
Effectively
ICCA Responsible
Care Global
Product Strategy
(GPS)
Introduced 2006
ICCM-1
SAICM Adopted
• A cornerstone of industry’s
contribution to SAICM
• GPS is designed to improve
global industry’s product
stewardship performance by
recommending measures by
companies in cooperation
with their associations and
other participants in the
chemical value chain
ICCA Responsible
Care Global
Product
Strategy:
Key Components
•
Develop guidelines for product
stewardship, including ways to make
product stewardship information
more transparent
•
Implement a management systems
approach
•
Tiered process for completing risk
characterization and risk
management actions for chemicals in
commerce
•
Product stewardship performance,
emphasizing working with customers
and suppliers
•
Explore partnerships with
stakeholders to enhance product
stewardship
ICCA Responsible
Care Global
Product
Strategy:
• Develop guidelines for product
stewardship, including ways to
make product stewardship
information more transparent
Key Components
• Implement a management systems
approach
• Tiered process for completing risk
characterization and risk
management actions for chemicals
in commerce
• Product stewardship performance,
emphasizing working with
customers and suppliers
ICCA Responsible
Care Global
Product
Strategy:
No Uniform
Internaional
Approach
•
Common elements and
approaches to be applied
across the global industry
•
However, it provides
implementation flexibility
•
Key recognition of distinct
national, historical, and
cultural differences
•
Recognition of distinct
legal and regulatory
requirements
ACC Perspective:
How the Global
Product Strategy
Fits Within
Responsible Care
• U.S. chemical industry began
RC with Codes of Management
Practices, e.g., Product
Stewardship Code
• In 2002, ACC refreshed RC
with management system
approach
• Integrated, structured
approach to drive results in
seven key areas
ACC
Responsible
Care
Management
System
RCMS Focus Areas:
 Community Awareness & Emergency
Response
 Security
 Distribution
 Employee Health & Safety
 Pollution Prevention
 Process Safety
 Product Stewardship
ACC
Responsible
Care
Management
System
Implementation Framework
 Plan – identify and evaluate risks
 Do – establish, document &
communicate responsibilities
 Check – measure performance
progress and corrective action
 Act – Periodically review efficacy
of management system and make
necessary changes
ACC
Responsible
Care
Management
System
• The RCMS® is based on
benchmarked best practices of
leading private sector companies,
initiatives developed through the
Global Environmental Management
Initiative, International Standards
Organization and other bodies, and
requirements of national regulatory
authorities
• Certified by independent thirdparty auditor every three years
• RCMS or RC14001—technical
specifications met
Where Does
GPS Fit in
Responsible
Care?
• To accomplish the key elements
of GPS, ACC identified each
product stewardship technical
specification within RCMS
aligned with each strategic
element of GPS
• Same exercise applied to the
former Product Stewardship
Codes Management Practice to
ensure alignment with all
Product Stewardship principles
How to
Measure
Progress
Toward GPS
Key
Components?
 Implement a management systems
approach
• Develop guidelines for product
stewardship, including ways to
make product stewardship
information more transparent
• Tiered process for completing risk
characterization and risk
management actions for chemicals
in commerce
• Product stewardship performance,
emphasizing working with
customers and suppliers
How to
Measure
Progress
Toward GPS
Key
Components?
Identify and report performance
metrics that indicate progress toward
remaining key components of GPS:
 Demonstrates tiered risk
characterization process employed
differentiating among high- and lowrisk substances
 Communicating product stewardship
information to the value chain and
public
How to
Measure
Progress on
GPS Key
Strategy
Components?
Metrics Selected:
 Documented process in
place to characterize
chemical risks and
summary of that process is
publicly available?
 Company has a process in
place to communicate the
result of the risk
characterization
How to
Demonstrate
Progress on
GPS?
• Publicly available Product Safety
Summaries
• Lay language—easy to
understand by public
• Flexible in approach so each
company can include what is
appropriate for it
• Provide guidance on
recommended elements of
various types of product
stewardship information
• Make them publicly available
Product Safety
Summaries
Recommended Elements
 Chemical identity
 Uses
 Physical/chemical properties
 Health effects
 Environmental effects
Environmental fate
Aquatic/terrestrial toxicity
 Exposure potential
 Risk management recommendations
Product Safety
Summaries
Public
Accessibility
• ICCA Portal
http://www.iccachem.org/en/Home/ICCAinitiatives/global-productstrategy/chemicalinformation-search/
• Individual company
websites
• Other vehicles
Product Safety
Summaries
Targets
• Safety summaries on all
high priority substances as
identified by individual
companies by end of 2012
• Safety summaries on all
other substances in
commerce by end of 2018
• Advance of UN 2020 Goal
ACC
Responsible
Care Strategic
Review and
Product Safety
Code
Why Strategic Review?
10 years since last review
Political activity
Marketplace impacts
Legislative activity
Individual states within U.S.
Social media evolution
ACC
Responsible
Care Strategic
Review and
Product Safety
Code
• External Advisory Panel 2010
• Recommendations delivered
• Many recommendations
adopted by ACC Board
• 2011-2012 staff and member
recommended changes to RC
• Product stewardship practices
pulled out of RCMS and new
Product Safety Code almost
completed
Why Product
Safety Code?
• Significant activity past few years
to revise Toxic Substances Control
Act (TSCA)
• 2009 ACC 10 Principles TSCA
Modernization
• External Advisory Panel
recommended alignment of 10
Principles and RC Product
Stewardship activities
• Use term “safety”
• Dual purpose: performance and
advocacy
Product Safety
Code Elements
• Leadership commitment
• Accountability & management
• Risk-based prioritization
process
• Tiered approach to
data/information gathering
• Risk characterization
• Risk management
• Management of new information
Product Safety
Code Elements
• Product design &
improvement
• Value chain communication,
cooperation & outreach
• Information sharing
• Performance assessment &
continuous improvement
Product Safety
Code Elements
&
Global Product
Strategy
• Alignment continues to exist
• In fact, more robust
• Safety summaries metric?
Thank You
&
Discussion