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Responsible Care® (RC) is the chemical industry’s global voluntary initiative with which chemical companies, through their national association membership, work together to continuously improve their health, safety, and environmental performance and communicate with stakeholders about their products and processes in the manufacture and supply of safe and affordable goods that provide real benefits to society (http://www.responsiblecare.org. Accessed 25 May 2010).
Responsible Care is a self-regulatory programbased on a system of checklists, performance indicators, and verification procedures, enabling the industry – beyond public regulation – to demonstrate to its stakeholders how its health, safety, and environmental performance have improved over the years and to develop policies for further improvement. The main objectives of this...
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Albareda, L. (2013). Responsible Care (Chemical Industry’s Sector Wide Initiative). In: Idowu, S.O., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Gupta, A.D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_120
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