Let Me Google That For You

The Product Safety Code includes a set of 11 Management Practices, through which chemical manufacturers can evaluate, demonstrate and continuously improve their product safety performance, while also making information about chemical products available to the public.

Specifically, the Product Safety Code Management Practices verify that chemical companies:

• Undertake scientific analyses of their products, and take steps to assure they can be used safely.
• Enhance cooperation and communications along the chemical value chain.
• Consider impacts on public health, the environment and overall sustainability as they improve their products or develop new ones.
• Determine whether the chemicals they make pose risks, based on any new research, how the chemical is used, and whether children and other sensitive groups come into contact with them.
• Provide the public with access to product safety and stewardship information.
• Ensure that company senior executives, including the CEO, commit to a culture of product safety and accountability.

There's a very familiar ring to those protocols and, for the most responsible of distributors and suppliers in our industry, this kind of proactive management is finding its way into the corporate and social responsibility initiatives of industry leaders. How about you, does your organization take product safety and ethical responsibility seriously enough? Or, are you still "googling it?"

By the way, congratulations to the Counselor Top 50 announced this week at the ASI Power Summit. Of the industry's Top 50 most influential, QCA-Accredited suppliers and distributors that are members of the QCA Distributor Advocacy Council give QCA 30 names on the list. Best wishes and a tip of the hat to them all.