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What is Responsible Care?

Responsible Care is the global Chemical industry's environmental,health and safety (EHS) initiative to drive continuos improvement in performance of the pharmaceutical and chemical sector in all aspects, which directly and indirectly impact on the environment, employees or the general public. Responsible Care companies actively strive to maintain leadership in safety and environment performance.

The industry recognises that the Responsible Care programme must continue to evolve and meet the ongoing concerns and expectations of its stakeholders. The concept of continuous improvement is firmly established within the sector and drives the performance of companies to achieve the highest standards of performance in excess of legislative compliance.

Industry Awards
Closing date for enter to the 2010 Cefic Responsible Care awards scheme is June 25th
Who benefits
Responsible Care ensures the industry not only goes above and beyond its regulatory obligations, but that there are also numerous other benefits for companies including the benefit of pan-industry support and best-practice sharing. Other benefits include;
Responsible Care Reports
Each year PharmaChemical Ireland produces an Annual Responsible care Report outlining the performance of the sector over a three year period
Key indicators
The progress made by the companies’ in reducing their emissions over many years has continued into this year. We are particularly pleased to report the following improvements:
The fundamental features of Responsible Care in industry
In Ireland each member of PharmaChemical Ireland is expected to voluntarily adopt the following commitments and principles



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