WORKSHOP ON “RESPONSIBLE CARE 3 CODES GUIDANCE MANUAL”
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esponsible Care® (RC) is the global chemical industry’s voluntary initiative to drive continuous improvement in safe chemicals management and achieve excellence in Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security (EHS&S) performance. There are different ways for practicing Responsible Care®, among that in the India, we followed “codebased management system’’. In code-based management system there are 7 codes and each code has certain characteristics for compliance, which are based upon 4 elements i.e. management, technology, facilities, and people-related attributes. To follow these codes and implement actual practices, the chemical industry needs uniform guidelines and thorough details of each code therefore ICC takes initiative for CODES BASED MANUAL and RC Manual. 20
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FEBRUARY 2022
Among the 7 codes, ICC has already published 4 Codes Manual in 2018, viz: 1. Process Safety Code, 2. Distribution Code, 3. Product Safety and Stewardship Code, and 4. Security Code. Looking upon utility, requirement & popularity of these codes, ICC has decided to publish the rest of the three codes manual, i.e. 1. Employee Health and Safety Code, 2. Pollution Prevention Code, 3. Emergency Response Code. It is important to review drafts of all these codes. Therefore, ICC organized 2-day workshop with 20 experts and the team of ICC at Hotel Taj Santacruz-Mumbai on 14th and 15th December 2021.
The whole idea of organizing the workshop was, that the Experts will review all chapters of each code and manual which will be perfect in terms of guidelines, reference, technical knowledge etc. The workshop started with a customary welcome by Mr. D. Sothi Selvam, Director General of ICC. In his welcome address, Mr. Sothi Selvam focused on the international scenario with GDPs & relation between market & chemical industry. He asserted that Growth along with Sustainability is possible by Responsible Care® Management Practices. He was very sure about the expert’s & ICC team members will successfully achieve the objective of code-based manual. Dr. Pranav Tripathi, Officer Sustainability, Environment, and Regulatory Issues, Indian Chemical Council through his presentation
