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are management handbooks made to help the structuration
and management of the industry’s activities and operations,
guided to facilitate the change of attitudes and aptitudes,
in order to guarantee the successful application of the
Directive Principles. The company designates a responsible
or Coordinator of implement them and a leader in charge
of each code or the working front. These manuals include
a set of good practices grouped in seven working fronts.
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Code
1: |
Neighborhood/local
communities Preparation for Emergency Response |
Code
2: |
Distribution
and Transport |
Code
3: |
Process
Safety |
Code
4: |
Environmental
Protection |
Code
5: |
Product
Stewardship |
Code
6: |
Employees
Health and Safety |
Code
7: |
Security |
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| Code
1: Local communities Preparation for Emergency Response |
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| Objectives:
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To improve communications between the companies and
the local communities and to make sure that the companies
facilities count with appropriate programs to openly
communicate all the information related to all the
claims or concerns on the subjects of safety, health
and environmental protection. |
To
protect both the employees and the neighboring communities
ensuring that each facilitie has an Emergency Plan
to reacts before any type of incident in a quick and
efficiently way, and that it is referred to the Emergencies
local plan. |
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| Code
2: Distribution and Transport |
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| Objectives:
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To reduce the risks that the transport and distribution
of products, raw material chemical substances and
waste materials imply to the public, transporters,
distributors, contractors, employees and to the environment. |
To promote the preparation and the employee’s'
understanding to prevent emergencies and to increase
transporters and suppliers’ safety. |
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| Code
3: Process Safety |
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| Objectives:
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To allow the Member Companies in the establishment
of appropriate systems for prevention and control
of the risks related to the production, storage and
manipulation of raw material and components. |
To avoid any type of incidents (accidental fire, explosions,
or emissions) during these stages thus achieving a
safe operation and employees, local communities and
environment protection. |
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| Code
4: Environmental Protection |
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| Objectives:
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To reduce continuously the pollutants and waste materials,
giving prior attention to source, followed by the
use (reuse and/or recycling) and finally to the energy
recovery treatment and/or the final disposal. |
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| Code
5: Product Stewardship |
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| Objectives:
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To reduce the risks in all and each one of the stages
of the product life cycle (from the design and manufacturing
to the recycling or final disposal). To achieve that
it is safe and respectful with the environment. |
To aware the suppliers, contractors and customers
about these principles through informative sessions. |
To multiply all information about the products through
Safety Bulletins and Technical specifications. |
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| Code
6: Employees Health and Safety |
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| Objectives:
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To protect and safeguard the health of those working
or visiting the company’s facilities. |
To improve the Company’s Health and Safety conditions. |
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| Code
7: Security |
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| Objectives: |
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To help the companies to protect, along the value
chain, people, the physical property, products, process,
information and the information systems, based on
a integrated risk management which allows to identify,
evaluate and consider the vulnerabilities, to prevent
or to reduce the incidents, to improve the training
and the response capacity and to maintain and improve
the relationships of the key stakeholders. |
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| The Management
Practices Codes include 118 Practices and 403 Activities,
distributed this way: |
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Code |
No.
of
Management Practices |
No.
of Key Activities |
| 1.
Neighborhood/local communities
Preparation for Emergency Response. |
19 |
53 |
| 2.
Distribution and Transport |
19 |
70 |
| 3.
Process Safety |
20 |
63 |
| 4.
Environmental Protection |
11 |
37 |
| 5.
Product Stewardship |
12 |
52 |
| 6.
Employees Health and Safety |
24 |
82 |
| 7.
Security |
13 |
46 |
| Total |
118 |
403 |
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| ¿What
is the RCMS? |
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Although,
the Management Practices Codes (CPG's) have, for twenty
years, helped the Companies to improve continuously the
Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) and to face, with
success, the challenges and demands of the Sustainable Development
and the Social Responsability Responsible Care - Colombia
has considered necessary to adopt a more systematic approach
to facilitate to the companies the jointly management of
all the efforts as regards EH&S (Environment, Health
and Safety) and other aspects of their business At the same
time, allow them to obtain bigger added value , bigger transparency
in their dealing, recognition and support of the people
interested in the Company performance and the possibility
of integrating their business management with the well known
systems and principles (for example: ISO 14000, ISO 9000,
OHSAS 18000, INC 8000, BASC, Manufacturing Good Practices
- BPM, Losses Control and the Global Pact of United Nations,
among other) and to allow the Companies permanently complying
the regulations which are every time more demanding.
Because
of this reason the Responsible Care Management System (RCMS)
was developed. It is a management model that allows the
companies members to implement their Directive Principles
and the Management Practices Codes MPC's, with other fundamental
elements of this initiative: permanent follow up and Self-evaluation
of the Advance, Performance Indicators, Verification, Mutual
help and a Relationship with the Local communities, in a
coherent and harmonic way with other administration systems
such as ISO 9000, ISO 14000, OHSAS 18000, BASC, SA8000.
The
RCMS, as a management system requires the establishment
of objectives and goals, plans, organizational structures,
responsibilities assignment, establishment and application
of procedures and processes, resources assignment, with
the purpose to guarantee that the companies activities are
carried out according to plan control and permanent improvement.
This approach corresponds to a Continuous Improvement Cycle
or Deming Cycle ,
The
objectives of the RCMS are: |
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To give answer to the world wide Responsible Care |
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To improve the implementation of the MPC´s according
to another management systems (ISO 9001 and 14001, OHSAS
18001, INC 8000) |
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To ease the integration process with other management
systems. |
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To develop the voluntary certification process of the
subscribing companies in order to improve the RI credibility. |
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To transform the certification into a simultaneous process
for other systems for example RI-ISO14001 or RI-OHSAS18001 |
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