Implementation of Responsible Care in the chemical industry: Evidence from Greece

Evangelinos, Konstantinos; Nikolaou, Ioannis E.; Karagiannis, A.

doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.12.107

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“…The second main field of study is chemical industry [27], [73]. In this context, Evangelinos et al [74] examined the ways in which various factors affect the choice of the chemical industry in their adoption of an EMS, while Yaqoob et al [75] underlined the role of legislation enforcement and strategic environmental assessments to encourage chemical industry to adopt an effective EMS.…”

Section: Businessmentioning

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Trends in Environmental Management Systems Research. A Content Analysis

Fagioli

Paolotti

Boggia

2022

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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Environmental Management Systems (EMS) represent a solid opportunity for companies that voluntarily undertake a path towards the adoption of environmental protection policies. Many studies investigated the link between EMS and improvement of environmental performance, demonstrating how the adoption of an international standard as ISO 14000 or EMAS guarantees the company an improvement in its performance and an increase in transparency towards stakeholders. However, scientific research in this field reflects the strong variability due to the breadth and diversity of sectors in which the two international standards can be adopted. The aim of this work is to analyse, through textual statistics and text mining methods, the trends that characterize scientific production, highlighting most debated topics useful for developing new research perspectives in this research field.

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Section: Businessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trends in Environmental Management Systems Research. A Content Analysis

Fagioli

Paolotti

Boggia

2022

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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“…Results also found that 20 percent of the signatory companies proposed to have some special fund allocation in order to implement Responsible Care program. This is due to the implementation of Responsible Care requiring a great deal of resources and costs (Evangelinos et al, 2010). In addition, about 10 percent of signatory companies also proposed to have a special standard in the documentation process for Responsible Care.…”

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“…A study conducted on chemical companies in Greece found that the challenges they faced in implementing Responsible Care being the lack of knowledge about the program, high level of bureaucracy to enable companies to implement Responsible Care, low recognition status of Responsible Care, conflict with other management systems, excessive program requirements, require financial support from the government, low level of environmental awareness in chemical sector and low perspective about its benefits (Evangelinos et al, 2010). Similar challenges faced by chemical companies in the USA 626 MEQ 30,3 being a low level of Responsible Care program recognition and a high cost to implement the program (Prakash, 1999).…”

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Simplified and Integrated Management System for Responsible Care (SIMS-RC) in chemical industries

Khair

Lee

Mokhtar

et al. 2019

MEQ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the barriers and challenges faced by chemical industries in Malaysia causing to the low participation in Responsible Care program. Also, this paper aims to propose a solution to address the issues in implementing Responsible Care by introducing a Simplified and Integrated Management System for Responsible Care. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was distributed to 132 Responsible Care signatory companies in Malaysia, and they were given a week to return it via e-mail. Combining the inputs from the survey and document analysis, a Simplified and Integrated Management System for Responsible Care (SIMS-RC) was proposed. Findings Responsible Care signatory companies faced barriers in implementing product stewardship code and they also faced challenges in getting employees’ commitment from all levels. Taking the inputs received from Responsible Care signatory companies and document analysis, an SIMS-RC was proposed as a closed-loop process which consists of quality, environmental, health and safety management system. Research limitations/implications Some of the chemical companies were unable to share their thoughts in the survey due to the companies’ confidential reason. Originality/value Abundant literature has discussed about the limitation of Responsible Care that needs to be improved. Therefore, several elements and procedures of the program need to be revised and innovated to help the signatory companies to continuously improve their performances and encourage more participation in Responsible Care program. The findings will add value to the current body of knowledge and Responsible Care signatory companies which seek to improve Responsible Care implementation through an integrated management system approach. The proposed SIMS-RC is a simple, integrated, holistic and process-oriented management system in which it blends Responsible Care into quality, environmental, health and safety management system.

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“…Several academics maintain that the adoption of EMS, DfE, and other management practices may provide financial benefits to industrial and manufacturing sectors (Baumann et al ; Knight and Jenkins ). Evangelinos et al () claim that the Greek chemical industry has gained financial benefits from the adoption of the Responsible Care Management System. Similar benefits arise from the implementation of other environmental management practices.…”

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Environmental management practices and engineering science: A review and typology for future research

Evangelinos

Allan

Jones

et al. 2014

Integr Environ Assess Manag

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Current literature describes a number of environmental management practices and cleaner production methods that facilitate different industrial sectors to address their various environmental impacts. The high number of present practices makes their use especially difficult and complicated. This paper aims to shed light on this field by providing a typology of those environmental management practices (such as environmental management systems, environmental indicators assessment methodologies, and cleaner productions methods) and their limitations. It also describes the strengths and weaknesses of using such tools and thoughts for future research. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2014;10:153-162. © 2013 SETAC

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Implementation of Responsible Care in the chemical industry: Evidence from Greece

Cited by 13 publications

References 39 publications

Trends in Environmental Management Systems Research. A Content Analysis

Trends in Environmental Management Systems Research. A Content Analysis

Simplified and Integrated Management System for Responsible Care (SIMS-RC) in chemical industries

Environmental management practices and engineering science: A review and typology for future research

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