Responsible Care in Ireland

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Responsible Care in Ireland

• How a small Federation enhances business value
  through Responsible Care

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Ireland

• Population 4 million
• 30 live in Dublin Region
• gt40 under 25 years
• Imports 50,100mil
• Exports 83,900mil
• Average GDP growth rate 8.1
• gt80 of all manufacturing is exported

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Irish Pharmaceutical/ Chemical Sector

• Employs about 24,000
• Over 4,000 in Chemicals
• Over 17,000 in Pharmaceuticals
• Exports, annual
• Chemical 6,000 mil
• Pharmaceutical 34,000 mil
• Accounts for 44 of total Irish exports
• 13 of the top 15 global pharmaceutical companies
  have bases in Ireland
• 6 of the top 10 global drugs are manufactured in
  Ireland

Eli Lilly (S.A.) Irish Branch, Kinsale
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PharmaChemical Ireland

• Located in Dublin
• Sector within IBEC
• Six permanent Staff
• Main Working Groups are

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Responsible Care in Ireland

• Launched in 1991
• Mandatory on joining PharmaChemical Ireland
• Managed by Steering Group
• Chair of PCI Council
• Chair Env Working Group
• Chair Safety Working Group
• Assistant Director PCI
• Major re-launch in 2000/2001

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Re-launch 2000/2001

• Objective
• That member companies will recognise the
  identified Responsible Care benefits as valuable
  to their business and therefore will want to
  participate fully.
• Success is gauged by the number of Companies
  submitting annual reports.

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Key Re-launch initiatives

• Gap analysis
• Dont discard existing work
• Dont ask members to repeat work
• Documented Management Plan
• Recommitment by
• Council
• Company co-ordinators
• Collection of outstanding data
• Irish Reporting guidelines needed
• Publication of annual report
• Public acknowledgement by regulatory bodies

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Why was re-launch a success

• Documented management plan gave focus
• New reporting form developed
• Existing data entered prior to sending to members
• Irish Reporting guidelines issued
• Codes were being followed on the ground but
  reporting was not seen as valuable
• Annual report became inevitable
• Members wanted to be part of it
• Opportunity for good news stories welcomed

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Responsible Care Report

• Target two tracking parameters for each of the
  following
• Economic (added in second report)
• Air emissions
• Water discharges
• Waste disposal
• Health Safety
• Progress on Code completion included
• Good news stories added
• Commitment to identified improvements

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Summary of Performance Results
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Positive Actions, CO2

• 2002 Participated in pilot Negotiated Agreement
  with Sustainable Energy Ireland for CO2
  reductions
• 2002/03 Energy Management Code issued
• Completion levels
• End of 2003 56
• End of 2004 65

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Positive Actions, Haz. Waste

• 2002 Hazardous waste guidance document
• 2002 Hazardous waste workshop
• New workshop planned in 2006 to maintain momentum

Launch of Waste Guidance Document by Responsible
Care Steering Group
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Emerging Issue, Phosphorous
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Actions to be agreed by the Responsible Care
Environment Working Group
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The Future

• Product Stewardship
• Officially launch Management Code
• Develop measurement metrics for annual report
• Include Product Stewardship in future awards
• Gain national recognition for awards
• Training in key areas
• Aimed at helping weaker members

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Value to Federation

• Early detection of rising trends
• Allows early actions
• Justifies those actions
• Improves credibility
• Good to give to Regulatory Bodies for dealing
  with the public
• Proves sectors high performance
• Connects to an International brand

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Value to Members

• Associates them with a positive initiative
• Allows benchmarking with comparable companies
• Codes give good guidance
• Self reporting provides the push
• Risk of sector incident minimised by encouraging
  weaker members

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Why Responsible Care is good for Ireland

• Flexible enough to
• Include pharmaceutical membership
• Allow National Management codes
• Embrace smaller companies with limited resources
• Provides for multi-level continuous improvement
• More a PHILOSOPHY than a RULE BOOK