Our objectives...
- To be a responsible corporate citizen
- To be open and responsive to ideas and concerns
- To integrate environmental considerations into our business decisions
- To design or modify our products and processes to minimize their environmental, health, and safety impact
- To find solutions to challenges by working with key stakeholders to find practical solutions to challenges
- To manage our lands to protect and enhance wildlife and ecosystems
Dow is at "100 percent practice in place" for the original 106 management practices embodied in the six Responsible Care® codes. This includes our 1999 To Do List commitment to heightened Product Stewardship communication in all Dow businesses. In addition, we are well on our way to implementing a new Security Code, introduced in 2002. Our globally integrated Operating Discipline Management System (ODMS) is particularly helpful with newly acquired sites and businesses where it helps us to improve the existing management practices, implement the security measures, and to integrate Responsible Care standards.
In 2003, Dow implemented programs that will enable us to conform to the American Chemistry Council’s new Responsible Care expectations. These new expectations require having a Responsible Care Management System in place, having that system externally certified and reporting industry EH&S metrics.
