On November 22nd and 23rd 2010 a verification team representing the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada conducted a Responsible Care® re-verification of the Honeywell ASCa Amherstburg plant utilizing the CIAC 2009 re-verification protocol. The team was comprised of three verifiers selected by the Association and one verifier selected by the local Amherstburg community through the site’s Community Advisory Panel (CAP).

L’équipe de vérification nommée par l’Association canadienne de l’industrie de la chimie (ACIC) a effectué une re-vérification de la conformité à la Gestion responsableMD (GR) de la Compagnie PCI Chimie Canada faisant affaire au Canada pour Olin Produits de Chloralcalis.  La re-vérification s’est effectuée les 8, 9 et 10 décembre 2010.

BASF Canada Inc. is part of the BASF Group within BASF SE, with head offices in Ludwigshafen, Germany.  In North America, it operates as BASF Corporation.  BASF Canada is responsible for governance of BASF Corporation’s operations in Canada, and operates on a shared services platform with other parts of the North American companies.  In Canada, business units are in agricultural protection, inorganic chemicals, catalysts, intermediates, petrochemicals, construction chemicals, dispersions and pigments, paper chemicals, performance chemicals, coatings, care chemicals, performance polymers and polyurethanes DMP.  Most BASF businesses operate by selling through BASF Canada to Canadian customers.  A few businesses sell directly from BASF Corporation to the customer or a distributor in Canada.

Since the last reverification, BASF Canada has acquired and divested of businesses, closed sites, and had a number of key personnel changes.  This reverification will review how these have affected the company and how Responsible Care has driven the changes, moving the company forward in continuous improvement, especially through the use of Responsible Care’s ethic and the Plan-Do-Check-Act process of its management system.

This Responsible Care® in-Place verification was conducted on October 4-8, 2010.  The verification was based on visits to the organization’s head office in Calgary as well as facilities at Fort Assiniboine and Medicine Hat, Alberta and Fort Nelson, British Columbia.  Information was compiled through interviews, documentation reviews and inspections at these locations.  The in-place verification was conducted by a three person team appointed by the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC), supplemented by four local community members, representing each facility.
 

This reverification team found that the Responsible Care® ethic, as it pertains to internal environmental, health and safety issues and to the externalization of Responsible Care is clearly visible, well understood and entrenched in ERCO Worldwide’s management system.  The management team confirmed that the Canadian Responsible Care principles and codes of practice are incorporated into the company’s internal and external standards, programs, practices and management system in a manner that guides the daily actions and decisions of the team and its employees.  The team found that the ethic is well understood and does indeed guide actions and decisions of the company's management and of other workers, is well understood and entrenched in ERCO’s management system.