Responsible Care Awareness Training

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Responsible CareAwareness Training
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The South African Chemical Industry

• 5 GDP
• 25 manufacturing sector
• 180 000 employed

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Philosophy

• RESPONSIBLE CARE is an integral part of corporate
  culture
• It is NOT a programme programmes have
  beginnings and endings
• RESPONSIBLE CARE is an on-going way of life in
  which chemical companies conduct all aspects of
  their business

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Commitment
Corporate values must emphasize a life-long
COMMITMENT to community and occupational HEALTH
and SAFETY and to ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
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History

• Canada 1984
• USA 1985
• South Africa 1994
• 52 countries 2007

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International Status

• Managed by the International Council of Chemical
  Associations (ICCA)
• 85 of global production
• Status Report to the ICCA

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Key Features

• No right or wrong
• Continuous Improvement
• Industry level
• Company level
• Legal Requirement Minimum

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Global Charter

• Launched in 2005 by the ICCA
• Core Principles
• Fundamental Features
• Signed by National Associations and Multi
  National companies

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Key Elements in SA

• Guiding Principles
• Management Practice Standards
• 3rd Party Verification
• Quantitative Indicators of Performance
• Voluntary Advisory Forum

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Guiding Principles

• Minimise adverse environmental impacts
• Recognise community concerns
• Sustainable development
• Integration of SHE
• Reporting

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Guiding Principles

• Sharing and mutual assistance
• Increase knowledge (Workshops)
• Participate with Government in developing
  legislation
• Comply with International Conventions

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Management Practice Standards

• Management Commitment
• Health Safety
• Storage and Distribution
• Community Interaction
• Emergency Response
• Pollution Prevention and Resource Efficiency
• Product Stewardship
• Process Safety

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Standards Common Principles

• Leadership commitment
• Policies, practices and procedures documented
• Auditing
• Corrective action
• Follow-up
• Management review
• Hazards and risks
• Design and modifications

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Standards Common Principles

• Records
• Communication to personnel and community
• Personnel recruitment
• Training
• Skills assessment, competence
• Schedule
• Refresher
• Contractors

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Life Cycle Integration
Management Practice Standards
Product Life Cycle

• Design and Develop
• Manufacture
• Sell
• Transport
• Use
• Dispose

• Health Safety
• Storage, Distribution Transportation
• Community Interaction Emergency Response
• Pollution Prevention Resource Efficiency
• Process Safety

Public Involvement

• 3rd Party Verification
• Advisory Forum

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Quantitative Indicators of Performance
WASTE MANAGEMENT AND POLLUTION CONTROL
Resource Utilization
Water usage (kl) Energy usage (GJ)
Waste management Non-hazardous waste
produced (tonnes) Hazardous waste produced
(tonnes) Effluent Aqueous
effluent discharged to sewer (kl) Aqueous
effluent discharged to river (kl) Aqueous
effluent discharged to estuaries (kl)
Aqueous effluent discharged to ocean (kl)
Emissions to atmosphere (kg)
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Communication

• Establishment of liaison committees within and
  between companies
• Involvement of external groups and the community
  in company health, safety and environmental
  initiatives
• Establishment of a Voluntary Advisory Forum

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Verification

• SQAS audits of hauliers
• 3rd Party verification of MPSs
• RC, ISO NOSA audits - multiple outcome audits

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Initiatives

• Identify potential incidents
• Select/change to clean technologies
• Consolidate unit operations
• Reduce energy consumption
• Prefer continuous versus batch processes
• Consider product stability under all conditions
• Prevent effluent/waste generation
• Recover co-products from effluents
• Use RC to implements ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001

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Occupational Health and Safety Act

• MPS Health and Safety
• Process safety
• Product Stewardship
• Emergency Response

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Road Traffic Act SANS codes

• MPS Storage and Transportation

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Benefits of implementing RC

• Legal compliance
• Facilitates legal compliance
• Minimum requirement of RC
• Company image enhanced
• Industry image enhanced

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