Responsible Care for SMEs

BBS is a management programme that aims at increasing safety of operations by positively influencing the behaviour of all persons involved, through a process of observation, coaching and communication.

The overall objective is to improve safety performance of both the chemical industry and the transport industry. BBS guidelines have been developed for the safe driving and the safe loading & unloading of road freight vehicles.

This new guidance is based on a global ICCA guidance and introduces universally applicable process safety Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). It became effective September 2016. During a period of four years all chemical associations are requested to host national workshops in order to roll out this new guidance in their respective countries. Reporting of these new process safety KPIs has to be established by 2020. This new set of process safety KPIs ensures the transition from lagging to leading indicators as it captures process safety incidents at very low levels already. This is to ensure an increasing awareness of possible trends long before more significant incidents may happen – and to react accordingly.

SQAS is a standardised assessment to evaluate the quality, safety, security and environmental performance of logistics service providers and chemical distributors centrally managed by Cefic. Assessments are carried out by independent assessors.

An SQAS assessment offers a detailed factual and objective report, which each chemical company needs to evaluate according to its own requirements. It shows the LSP the areas for improvement and offers a guideline towards these improvements. It does not lead to official certification.

The Cefic RC Self Assessment guidance & questionnaire assist chemical companies assess their performance in Environment, Health, Safety & Security. Each section starts with a key statement which describes the overall goal followed by a series of questions which enable people to think about what they are doing and what they are not doing and how and why they can substantiate their position.

Having completed the self assessment the document then helps people to score the level of implementation in each section and to check the overall score of their company’s implementation of Responsible Care. “Spiders’ web” diagrams help visually present the results.

Sustainability of products – What it’s all about!

This publication looks at the sustainability of chemicals and how chemicals can contribute to more sustainable products. Aimed particularly at smaller companies, it guides you through key concepts in product sustainability and gives tips on how to apply them in practice.