Understanding Hazards and Risks (Responsible Care Element 2)

Responsible Care Element 2, Understanding Hazards and Risks, asks signatory companies to identify, evaluate, and manage the hazards that run across the entire chemicals lifecycle. The element lines up with CCPS RBPS Pillar 2 on understanding hazards and risk, and our team brings the full hazard study toolkit to bear, from material safety assessment through process hazard analysis using HAZOP, What If, and FMEA, on to facility risk assessment using quantitative risk assessment, fire and explosion risk analysis, and occupied building risk assessment, alongside human factors analysis and lifecycle hazard evaluation under REACH and GHS. What sets this element apart from a purely site based framework such as OSHA 1910.119 is that it reaches well beyond the plant boundary. We look at the hazards your suppliers carry, the risk created in transport, the conditions under which your customers use the product, and what happens at end of life disposal, so that you understand risk across the whole value chain rather than only within your own gates.