Title: RESPONSIBLE CARE
1 BULGARIAN CHAMBER OF CHEMICAL
INDUSTRY
RESPONSIBLE CARE IMPLEMENTATION IN BULGARIA
European Social Partner Workshop
REACH and Health and Safety in EU Candidate
Countries 29 / 30 May 2006 - Bucharest
2- BULGARIAN CHAMBER OF THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
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- Responsible Care
- Responsible Care global
- Responsible Care in Bulgaria
- History
- Results
- Plans for the future
- Responsible Care on Balkans
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3Responsible care is the chemical industrys
global initiative to drive improvements in
safety health and environmental performance
Lunched in Canada in 1985 Responsible care
is now run in 52 countries in all regions of the
world New challenges sustainable
development public health issues related to the
use of chemical products the greater industry
transparency Responsible care is an ethic and a
commitment and seeks to build confidence and
trust in an industry that is essential to
improving living standards and the quality of
life.
4Responsible Care global
Responsible Care global
Responsible Care global
Responsible care fundamental features
Guiding principles Name and logo Codes
guides Indicators Communication Sharing Encouragem
ent Verification
Continual improvement
Product stewardship
Areas
Safety
Health
Environment
Distribution
ISO 14001
ICE SQAS
OHSAS 18000
Systems
EMAS
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Responsible Care global
RESPONSIBLE CARE
FATE
FATE
CONCEPT
CONCEPT
DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH SAFETY ENVIRONMNT
HEALTH SAFETY ENVIRONMENT
USERS
USERS
PRODUCT
PRODUCT
RAW MATERIALS
RAW MATERIALS
MANUFACTURING
MANUFACTURING
6- Responsible Care in Bulgaria
- helps companies reach standards needed for EU
membership - increases industry credibility and helps improve
its reputation within society. - brings added value to member companies
- 21 Bulgarian Companies have joined the
Initiative 45 of BCCI members - SOLVAY SODI
AGROPOLICHIM - ALEN MAK ZEBRA
- AROMA
SOFIAPPLAST - AGRIA
KAUMET - KRISTAL CHIMIA PLASTIMO
- PLASTMASOVI IZDELIA TOTEM
- SIPO trading BROSS
- SVILOZA
GAMAKOL - POLIMERI
POLICHIM - LAVENA LUKOIL
NEFTOHIM BURGAS - ORGAHIM
7- Responsible Care in Bulgaria
- History
- RC reaches Bulgaria - early 2002
- Assistance from CEFIC UIC Slovak and Italian
Associations - 11 Companies submitted Declarations in CEFIC
leaders presence - June 2002. - National Responsible Care Committee set up. July
2002 - First 11 companies got Certificates in May 2003
- November 2004 Roma ICCA recognized BG in RC
family
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- FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES
- FORMAL COMMITMENT TO THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES
- National Guiding Principles
- National Responsible Care Committee
- Formal Company Declarations
- CEO Commitment
- Company level Responsible Care Committees
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- FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES
NATIONAL GUIDING PRINCIPLES 1. To recognize and
respond to community concerns about chemical
products and operations. 2. To develop and
produce chemical products that can be
manufactured transported used and disposed of
safety. 3. To make health safety and
environmental considerations a priority in a
companys planning for all existing and new
products and processes. 4. To report information
on chemical products related health or
environmental hazards promptly to officials
employees customers and the public and to
recommended protective measures. 5. To counsel
customers on the safe use transportation and the
disposal of chemical products. 6. To operate the
plants and facilities in the manner that protects
the environment and the health and safety of
companys employees and the public. 7. To extend
knowledge by conducting or supporting research on
the health safety and environmental effects of
the products processes and waste
materials. 8. To work with others to resolve
problems created by past handling and disposal of
hazardous substances. 9. To participate with
government and others in creating responsible
laws regulations and standards to safeguard the
community the workplace and the
environment. 10. To promote the principles and
practice of RESPONSIBLE CARE by sharing
experiences and offering assistance to others
who produce handle use transport and dispose
of chemical products.
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- FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES
- CODES
- Protection of the Environment/Waste reduction
- Employee Health and Safety at work
- Process Safety
- Dialogue with community(started)
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- Emergency preparedness and response
- Energy efficiency
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- Product Stewardship ( started)
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- FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES
- LOGO PROTECTION AND LICENSING
- Preparation of Certification Procedure and
Certificate model - Legal Agreement between BCCI and the
Company-member - CERTIFICATE
- LOGO with BULGARIAN title
- Logo with BULGARIAN title and explanation notes
- Honor ceremonies for certification - granting
the right to use the RC LOGO - Encourage companies to use the LOGO
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- FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES
- INDICATORS of PERFORMANCE
- 18 core parameters based on the CEFIC Reporting
guidelines - Additional indicators Environmental spending
Water use Community involvement Training on
safety and health Work place risk assessment
Management system (risk ISO EMAS) SDS
availability. - Guidance materials for reporting IoPs
- Companies report by year end. Data aggregated by
BCCI annually. Responsible Care annual reports
published in 2002 2003 2004 and 2005 in
preparation.
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- INDICATORS of PERFORMANCE
Safety and occupational health 1 number of
fatalities for employee - 0 2 lost time
injuries frequency rate for employees 20
( ½ from the whole chemical industry) 3 number
of fatalities for contractors - 0 4 lost time
injuries frequency rate for contractors Environmen
tal protection Waste Management 5 hazardous
waste for disposal - increase but due to changes
of classification 6 non-hazardous waste for
disposal - decrease 22 Emissions to Air 7
sulphur dioxide (SO2) - decrease 14 8
nitrogen oxides (NOx) decrease 8 9 volatile
organic compounds (VOC) Climate Change Emissions
of Global Warming Gases 10 carbon dioxide (CO2)
decrease 5 11 nitrous oxide (N2O) decrease
85 12 hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
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- INDICATORS of PERFORMANCE
Discharges to Water 13 chemical oxygen demand
(COD) 14 phosphorus compounds 15 nitrogen
compounds Use of Resources 16 use of energy
13 specific energy consumption - 20. 17
water consumption - continued to decline ( 5
reduction) 18 transport incidents
0 Additional parameters - SDS for used and
produced chemicals - 100 -IPPC all obligated
companies 8 sities -International standards
15companies with ISO9001 7 companies with
OHSAS 18001 5 companies with ISO 14001 4
Companies with Integrated MS(4 in preparation)
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- FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES
- COMMUNICATION WITH INTERESTED PARTIES
- Publishing the Guides
- Implementation of Responsible Care
- Certification Procedure
- Reporting core parameters
- Safety transportation of chemicals
- Responsible management system framework
- Product Stewardship
- Web site WWW.bcci2001.com
- Presentation of RC goals and implementation to
Trade unions MOEW MEE EA-SMEMain labor
inspectorate in special workshops - Dialogue with Ministries of Economics Health
Environment to help companies comply with new HSE
regulations the goal is good communication - Information about all RC training meetings
honor ceremonies etc is widely circulated
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- MUTUAL ASSISTANCE FORUMS - main activity
- Experience exchanges in France - UIC AVENTIS
PHARMA2003 and 2005 UIC Rohm and Haas UK CIA
in BG Slovakia Italy France Czech Poland
Finland - 6 study visits in member companies SOLVAY
SODI Alen mak Plasmasovi izdelia
Zebra Plastimo Kaumet combined with seminars - Focused workshops
- Health and safety at work
- Packaging waste national plan realization
- IPPC implementation in BG
- Emission trading and energy efficiency
- Safe transport of Chemicals
- Energy efficiency
- REACH preparation
- Innovation
- Education long live learning
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- FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES
- ENCOURAGEMENT
- RC is not mandatory for BCCI members. 21
companies are implementing RC (45 of BCCI
membership) - BCCI uses every opportunity to encourage
participation during attendance at exhibitions
fairs and with workshops visits to companies and
member companies contractors etc. - Interested companies are invited for experience
sharing visits. Cooperation and mutual assistance
among RC members helps attract new members - Strong interest from SMEs - they view RC as a
Management System
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- FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES
- VERIFICATION
- Self-assessment is mandatory for members
- Every company has reported annual activities and
performance indicators - National Responsible Care Committee has a
verification procedure (second party) - 2005 will be evaluation of the RC role for the
employees and employers - Visits from colleagues communities stakeholders
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- FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES
VERIFICATION RC SELFASSESSMENT - 20
companies participate for 2005 -
Environmental protection -17 questions good
situation - Health and safety at work -
25 questions - the best situation -
Safety of production facilities 14 questions
good situation - Energy efficiency - 11
questions start of the activities
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- FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES
- VERIFICATION
- Some of the top achivements for 2005
- - Agropolychim N2O
- - Aroma - own low emissions gas power
station removing the dangerous equipment
(radiation) - - Alen Mak integrated management system
certification and new facility for weighting the
substances without emissions and dust on the work
place - - Sviloza the first in BG project for
emission trading to World bank - this
decrease CO2 and money are invest for the
ecological projects - - Gamakol bio-diesel facility safety
for workers - - Plastmasovi izdelia 80 recycling of
the waste good system of training workers for
safety operations
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- Spending money
Implementation of the Initiative das not costs
much even it helps to avoided costs
for Accidents/incidents Non
quality Insurance premiums
Complaints (with residents)
Infractions Health effects
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- Key Results of the implementation of the RC
- Enlargement of the Initiative
- Work with companies on compliance with new
legislation - Continual improvement on HSE indicated by IoP
- Realization of the emission trading projects
- International and national experience sharing on
HSE metters - Better communication with authorities and control
agencies - Editing GUIDES Product Stewardship Self
assessment questionnaire Responsible Care
Management System Framework - Open Doors in all company members information
communication for new ethics of chemical companies
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- KEY PLANS for 2006
- Enlargement of the Initiative to another
companies and allied industries - Site visits for verification
- Establishing in every company RC committee for
better implementation - Establishing IPPC working group to help companies
for annual reporting and fulfilling compliance
programs - Start Product Stewardship program conecting with
GPS in BG together with authorities - Start actively working on preparation the
companies for REACH - Regional Balkan Responsible Care Group
establishing action plan
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- Regional Balkan Responsible Care Group
- Promoting and developing regional networks is the
goal in RCG (trough the ECEG project) - Good practice in HSE in the region- sustainable
development GPS and SICM - Good for the industry development innovation
and competitiveness
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