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Responsible Care®: Driving Safety & Sustainability

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ACC members advance safety and sustainability through Responsible Care®, a performance framework that drives continuous improvement and transparency across our operations, products and communities. Participation in Responsible Care is mandatory for all ACC members and Responsible Care Partner companies.

Through Responsible Care®, our industry is demonstrating meaningful and measurable progress in protecting employee health and safety, supporting communities and enhancing environmental performance.

Responsible Care: Making a Meaningful Impact on Safety and Sustainability Performance

The chemistries that power modern life—and the innovations that will define the future—depend on a globally competitive U.S. chemical industry. For nearly 40 years, Responsible Care® has helped ACC members and Responsible Care Partners advance the operational excellence, reliability and continuous improvement needed to produce the critical materials that fuel innovation, strengthen domestic manufacturing and help the United States compete in a rapidly changing global economy.

Cutting Emissions and Conserving Resources: Responsible Care® Companies Continue to Advance Environmental Performance

Chris Jahn, President & Chief Executive Officer, American Chemistry Council

“A strong U.S. economy starts with chemistry, and through Responsible Care, our industry is advancing innovative chemistries that deliver progress for both people and the planet. By cutting waste and emissions, we are helping to boost efficiency and keep products and energy within reach for American families,” 

Chris Jahn, President and CEO of ACC. 

ACC members and Responsible Care Partners put these principles into action through a range of performance and accountability measures, including:

  • Signing the Responsible Care® Guiding Principles
  • Tracking and transparently reporting company performance on environmental, health, safety and security metrics
  • Certifying the Responsible Care® Management System
  • Undergoing third-party audits
  • Implementing the Product Safety, Process Safety and Security Codes
Responsible Care Overview
5X
Better worker safety rate from Responsible Care companies than the U.S. manufacturing sector as a whole
3X
Better worker safety rate from Responsible Care companies than the business of chemistry overall
26%
Reduction in total recordable injury and illness rates for employees
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Responsible Care Guiding Principles

  • To lead our companies in ethical ways that increasingly benefit society, the economy and the environment.
  • To design and 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 and organizations in the development of effective and efficient safety, health, environmental and security laws, regulations and standards.
  • To support education and research on the 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.
  • To make continual progress towards our goal of no accidents, injuries or harm to human health and the environment from our products and operations and openly report our health, safety, environmental and security performance.
  • To seek continual improvement in our integrated Responsible Care Management System to address environmental, health, safety and security performance.
  • To promote Responsible Care by encouraging and assisting others to adhere to these Guiding Principles.