Product Safety Code

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.

Product Safety Code

Leadership commitment

Senior leadership commitment to a culture of product safety and stewardship. Each company’s senior leadership demonstrates clear commitment through their words, policies and actions throughout their organization and in external communications.
Product Safety Code

Accountability and management

Clearly established organizational accountability for product safety and stewardship. Product safety and stewardship are integral to business processes and employee expectations.
Product Safety Code

Prioritization of products

A risk-based process that considers available hazard and exposure information to prioritize products in need of further evaluation.
Product Safety Code

Product information

A process to develop and maintain information on safety, health and environmental hazards, intended uses and exposures for new and existing products to support risk characterization and product safety management.
Product Safety Code

Risk characterization

A process for the characterization of product risks based on information collected on hazards, intended uses, and exposures associated with the stages of a product’s lifecycle.
Product Safety Code

Product safety management

A process to identify, implement, document and communicate health, safety and environmental measures to manage risk so that products can be safely used for their intended purposes.
Product Safety Code

Management of new information

A process to identify and evaluate new information that may trigger changes to risk characterizations and product safety management actions. Such triggers include significant new product safety and stewardship information, including hazard, use and exposure information.
Product Safety Code

Product design and improvement

A process that considers health, safety and environmental impacts in the innovation, design, development, and improvement of products, their manufacture, and uses.
Product Safety Code

Value chain communication, cooperation and outreach

Processes to work with suppliers, customers and other value chain participants to foster product safety management and information exchange along the value chain, commensurate with risk.
Product Safety Code

Information sharing

Publicly available product safety and stewardship information.
Product Safety Code

Performance assessment and continuous improvement

Routine monitoring and assessment of product safety and stewardship, with processes in place to drive continuous performance improvement and implement corrective actions when needed.

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Product Safety Code

Leadership commitment

Accountability and management

Prioritization of products

Product information

Risk characterization

Product safety management

Management of new information

Product design and improvement

Value chain communication, cooperation and outreach

Information sharing

Performance assessment and continuous improvement

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