Participation in Responsible Care is a condition of membership for American Chemistry Council (ACC) members and Responsible Care Partner companies. ACC member and Responsible Care Partner companies pledge to improve environmental, health, safety and security (EHS&S) performance for facilities, processes and products throughout the entire operating system. Responsible Care companies have an employee safety record that is five times better than the average of the U.S. manufacturing sector as a whole, and almost three times better than the business of chemistry overall. Member companies also are committed to open and transparent reporting and submit annual data on their progress toward meeting performance measure goals. This information is made publicly available on the ACC website.<br/><br/>In 2015 the ACC formed a taskforce and expert panels to develop recommendations to address continual improvement in industry performance in the areas of process safety and occupational safety. A key recommendation was for the formation of Information/Practice Sharing Forums, where ACC members could share not only incident learnings, but good and effective practices that individual companies have implemented, all shared in a legally safe environment. In 2017, two forums were completed, one for Process Safety and one for Occupational Safety. These forums will continue in an effort to enhance safety and recognize that an effective means to improve safety performance throughout the industry is to learn from each other.<br/><br/>This paper will describe the framework the ACC put together so that these sharing sessions could occur, as well as the benefits of the sharing sessions for the member companies.

Information/practice sharing forums among American Chemistry Council Member Companies

255th National Meeting (2018)

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