Responsible Care Awards 2009

Responsible Care Award Winners 2009 Pelchem (Pty) Ltd
Finalists 2009 - BASF SA (Pty) Ltd and Plastamid (Pty) Ltd

The award is based on the criteria listed below, the data for which is obtained from the Quantitative Indicators of Performance submitted annually by Responsible Care signatories:

• Improvement in Health & Safety of Persons
  • Reduction in number of disabling injuries/200 000 hours worked. A fatality disqualifies a company
• Improvement in Storage, Distribution and Transportation
  • Number of incidents involving chemical release/million tons handled and delivered
  • Number of accidents causing public disruption/million tons delivered
• Improvement in Resource Use and Waste Management
• Existence of Community Awareness and Emergency Response (CAER) communication structures

The short-listed companies are then visited by staff members of CAIA before the final award is approved.

Previous Winners and Finalists

2003	-	Winner	-	Bayer, Denver
2004	-	Winner	-	Lanxess (Pty) Ltd SA, Merebank
	-	Finalists	-	Speciality Minerals and Thuthukani Warehousing and Distribution Services
2005	-	Winner	-	ImproChem (Pty) Ltd
	-	Finalists	-	Buckman Laboratories and Lucite International
2006	-	Winner	-	Lake InternationalTechnologies
	-	Finalists	-	Buckman Laboratories and Protea Chemicals KZN
2007	-	Winner	-	Bayer CropScience
	-	Finalists	-	Degussa Peroxide Africa and Sasol Nitro Ekandustria
2008	-	Winner	-	Sasol Polymers Monomers, Sasolburg
	-	Finalists	-	Degussa Peroxide Africa and Fine Chemicals Corporation