RESPONSIBLE CARE®
A Responsible Care® Company
AmSty is proud to be certified as a Responsible Care® company by the American Chemistry Council (ACC).
The Responsible Care program recognizes industry leaders around the world dedicated to ensuring that the chemistry environment is safe, secure and sustainable. Responsible Care® companies have an impressive track record, including a worker safety rate nearly five times better than the U.S. manufacturing sector as a whole and almost three times better than the business of chemistry overall.
It truly is an honor to be in such good company, and the truth is, the key principles are simply standard operating procedure at AmSty as our teams take material from conception, through the production, to the end product for our customers – and ultimately, how it’s disposed . The certification is simply icing on the cake, recognizing the good work we’ve been doing all along and our innovative approach to circular recycling that results in products that are infinitely recyclable.
Learn more about our commitment as a Responsible Care® company here.
Responsible Care® and Quality Policy
The AmSty Leadership Team is committed to protecting people and the environment, consistent with our company’s Mission and Core Values. Every employee shall commit to the Responsible Care® Guiding Principles. The Guiding Principles are embedded in our Operational Excellence Management System (OEMS), which includes the expectations for meeting our compliance obligations.
We establish objectives to achieve and sustain industry-leading safety, process safety, security, and pollution prevention goals to deliver on our commitments. We assess our objectives each year and adjust, when necessary, to continually improve our OEMS for performance enhancement.
ACC Responsible Care® Guiding Principles
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To lead in ethical ways that increasingly benefit society, the economy, and the environment.
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To design and develop products that can be manufactured, transported, used, and disposed of or recycled safely.
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To work with customers, carriers, suppliers, distributors, and contractors to foster the safe and secure use, transport, and disposal of chemicals, and provide hazard and risk information that can be accessed and applied in their operations and products.
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To design and operate facilities in a safe, secure, and environmentally sound manner.
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To instill a culture throughout all levels of the organization to continually identify, reduce, and manage process safety risks.
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To promote pollution prevention, minimization of waste, and conservation of energy and other critical resources at every stage of the life cycle of products.
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To cooperate with governments at all levels and organizations in the development of effective and efficient safety, health, environmental and security laws, regulations, and standards.
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To support education and research on the health, safety, environmental effects, and security of products and processes.
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To communicate product, service and process risks to stakeholders and listen to and consider their perspectives.
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To make continual progress toward a goal of no accidents, injuries or harm to human health and the environment from products and operations and openly report health, safety, environmental, and security performance.
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To seek continual improvement in the integrated Responsible Care Management System® (RC14001®:2015) to address environmental, health, safety, and security performance.
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To promote Responsible Care® by encouraging and assisting other companies to adhere to these Guiding Principles.
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AMSTY QUALITY POLICY
AmSty is committed to delivering products and services that meet or exceed the expectations of our customers. Product and service quality are achieved by employee dedication, teamwork, integrated management systems, and continual improvement.
