Driving Safety & Sustaina...

Driving Safety & Sustainability

For more than a century, chemistry has enabled solutions to some of the world’s most daunting sustainability challenges.

Driving Safety & Sustainability

The chemical industry is advancing safety and sustainability worldwide, through innovations, collaborations and technologies the enhance the health, safety and environmental impacts of our products and operations.

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ACC Sustainability Principles

ACC’s Sustainability Principles outline ACC members’ commitment to promote the safe use of chemicals, address environmental impacts of products and operations, go beyond regulatory requirements through Responsible Care, and collaborate with others to fulfill our sustainability commitments.

Chemistry for Sustainability

25%

Decrease in distribution incidents by Responsible Care companies since 2017

Better worker safety rate from Responsible Care companies than the U.S. manufacturing sector as a whole

17%

Reduction in recordable injury and illness rates for employees since 2017

Future or STEM Scholars Initiative (FOSSI)

FOSSI is open to all student pursuing STEM degrees at HBCUs, providing students $40,000 scholarships, leadership development, mentoring and internship opportunities at participating companies.

FOSSI by the Numbers

$40M

raised by over 80 corporate sponsors

800+

scholarships funded

~600

scholarships awarded to date