1. Responsible CarE® Product Stewardship – Building Your Team David Sandidge Director, Responsible Care American Chemistry Council June 2010

2. Product Stewardship Purpose of the code:
It ensures health, safety and environmental protection are elemental parts of designing, manufacturing, marketing, distributing, using, recycling and disposing of products.
Successful implementation entails that everyone involved has responsibilities to address society’s interest in a healthy environment and products that can used safely.
The Code recognizes that each company must exercise independent judgment and discretion to successfully apply the Code to its products, customers and business.

3. Product Stewardship
An ongoing product stewardship process shall include:
Management, leadership and commitment
Information and characterization
Risk management

4. Product Stewardship Management, Leadership and Commitment
Leadership is demonstrated by Senior Management through written policies, active participation and communication.
Goals and performance measures are compared to demonstrate accountability.
Necessary resources are committed to implement and maintain practices.

5. Product Stewardship Information and Characterization
Establishes and maintains information on all hazards and reasonably foresees exposures from new and existing products.
Characterizes of a product’s risk using information about health, safety and environmental hazards and reasonably foreseeable exposures

6. Product Stewardship Risk Management
Establishes a system to identify, document and implement health and safety and environmental risk-management actions appropriate to the product risk.
Considers health, safety and environmental impact when designing, developing and improving products and processes.
Educates and trains employees based on job function on how to properly handle, recycle, use and dispose of products. Encourages employees to feed back information on new uses, identified misuses or adverse effects for use.

7. Product Stewardship Risk Management
Contract manufacturers who employ appropriate practices. Periodically reviews performance of contract manufacturers.
Requires suppliers to provide appropriate information on their products.
Provides health, safety and environmental information to distributors. Reviews distributors to foster proper use, handling, recycling, disposal and transmittal of appropriate information to downstream users.
When a company identifies improper practices involving a product, it will work with receivers to improve on those practices

8. Product Manufacturers
Product Stewardship
COMMODITY
SPECIALTY
Commodity Chemicals
Traders / Brokers
Product Manufacturers
Customers
Chemical Mfg
Product
Manufacturers
Customers

9. Externally Focused Issues
Customer Inquiries
Product Approvals in Markets
Hazard and Risk Information
Product Safety Research & Determinations
Documentation (MSDS’s)
Managing Product Information / Research
Transportation
Safe Handling by Customers

10. Internally Focused Issues
Hazard and Risk Information
Risk Mitigation Hierarchy
Industrial Hygiene Monitoring
Documentation (Workplace Chemical List)
Workplace Precautions
Personal Protective Equipment
Process Safety Information

11. Functional Areas Involved
Technology
Sales and Marketing
Customer Service
Product Safety / Regulatory Affairs
Legal
Business Units
Manufacturing
Logistics / Distribution

12. Organizational Considerations
Focus on Customer and Markets
Commodity vs. Specialty Supply Chain
Regulatory / Compliance Needs
Link to Technology / Product Development
Level of Technical Expertise
Product Transportation / Logistics
Business / Functional / Geographic Structure

13. Product Stewardship Team
Product Stewardship Coordinator
Linked to RC Coordinator Team / Network
Linked to Functional Organization Leadership
Product Stewardship Team
Includes Key Functional / Support Areas
Based on Hazard and Risks
Responsible for Implementing Product Stewardship Code and Developing Supporting Management Systems

14. Global
Performance

15. Global
Performance