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Chemical safety relies on meaningful cooperation
GOT A CHEMICAL SAFETY QUESTION RESPONSIBLE CARE Today, chemical suppliers and their customers continue to adjust to the Covid operational environment. They struggle with supply chain delays, the loss of experienced staff, frustration with unanswered queries to risk-averse authorities, ® Chemical safety relies on meaningful cooperation Expanding government-industry partnerships to help business operators should be a no brainer. Inviting enquirers to read the regulations falls well short of educational expectations Responsible Care is a global voluntary chemical industry initiative developed autonomously by the chemical industry for the chemical industry. Chemical suppliers continue to help customers achieve workplace chemical safety aspirations through product stewardship initiatives. and cost-effective Certified Handler standard training, complete with a certificate. Responsible Care NZ site compliance assessments are non-threatening, effectively capturing and assessing chemical safety performance in a variety of workplaces. GOT A CHEMICAL SAFETY QUESTION RESPONSIBLE CARE® inflexible and prescriptive To help solve the in-house chemical +64 4 499 4311 regulations, rising com- compliance dilemma in New Zealand, info@responsiblecarenz.com pliance costs, diminishing Responsible Care NZ delivers specialist www.responsiblecarenz.com resources and increasing public chemical safety expectations. Downgrading the flawed work practices and work- Responsible Care NZ but effective HSNO Cer- places, by responding to extols less regulation in
While 130,000 businesses tified Handler require- workers’ suggestions about favour of enabling business are reportedly captured by ment has inadvertently improvements. operators to be increasthe Hazardous Substances undermined an invaluable ingly self-sufficient, using and Major Hazard Facili- capability. Conscientious business cost-effective products and ties regulations, the official operators can add val- services such as site commantra of “600-900 persons The action deprived busi- ue by sourcing accurate, pliance assessments and seriously harmed each year nesses, particularly SMEs, cost-effective workplace specialist training. by unwanted exposure to of an immediate and rec- chemical safety advice and chemicals in their work- ognisable source of work- compliance tools from their The focus is keeping place” presumably applies place chemical safety and suppliers, industry partners people safe around the to all of the country’s compliance advice -- a safe and Responsible Care NZ. chemicals we encounter 530,000 workplaces. chemical handling capabili- every day by adding value ty and emergency response A proven strategy is to businesses.
Increasing community knowledge – critical when a government agencies concerns about vulnerabil- chemical incident occurs. collaborating with proacity to unwanted chemical tive industry associations exposure and damage to PCBUs and SMEs must to best achieve workplace our fragile environment now devise their own solu- safety aspirations. The places additional pressure tions to ensure employees problem is that SMEs rarely on both suppliers and users are competent to safely join associations. of the chemicals. handle the chemicals with which they work. However, they all obtain
We all need to sustain and their chemical requirements improve our quality of life Chemical industry lead- from suppliers and can and these products must be ers are moving away from benefit from product stewsafely managed throughout relying on lagging indica- ardship advice and cost-eftheir life cycle. tors of safety performance fective industry compliance in favour of identifying safer initiatives.
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