Stewardship & Sustainability
Chemistry is essential to the products and services that improve our lives and help make us safer, healthier, and more productive. Through the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care® Stewardship & Sustainability initiative and the Responsible Care® Global Charter, the chemical industry has made a global commitment to improve its environment, health, safety, and security performance.
The Responsible Care® initiative challenges the world’s leading chemical companies to achieve even higher standards of performance and generate greater value for their businesses. The Responsible Care Management System® offers an integrated, structured approach to drive results in seven key areas:
- Community awareness and emergency response
- Distribution
- Employee health and safety
- Pollution prevention
- Process safety
- Product safety
- Security
Accordingly, SNF believes and subscribes to the following Guiding Principles that we will:
- Conduct our business in ethical ways that benefit society, the economy, and the environment
- Design and develop products that are manufactured, transported, used, disposed of, and recycled safely and responsibly
- Communicate with customers throughout the value chain by providing information and training regarding any potential hazards or risks associated with our products, and by welcoming feedback or recommendations
- Instill a culture throughout all levels of the organization to continually identify, reduce, and manage process safety risks
- Promote pollution prevention, minimization of waste, and conservation of energy and other critical resources throughout the life cycles of our products
- Cooperate with governments and organizations to help develop sensible and effective safety, health, environmental, and security laws, regulations, and standards
- Support education and research on the health, safety, environmental, and security effects of our products and processes
- Make continual progress toward a goal of no accidents, injuries, or harm to human health and the environment from our products or operations
- Report health, safety, environmental, security, and sustainable development performance
- Seek continual improvement in our integrated Responsible Care Management System® to address environmental, health, safety, and security performance
- Promote Responsible Care® by encouraging and assisting other companies in adherence to these or similar Guiding Principles