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The chemical industry through the ICCA is committed by its global program on Responsible Care and the Global Product Strategy (GPS) to the safe management of chemicals in their entire life cycle. To achieve this, transparency in communication is critical and the ICCA GPS Chemicals Portal offers the general public and ICCA members direct access to product stewardship information.

To date more than 1000 chemical safety summaries are available and the number of substances covered is increasing daily.

All ICCA member companies and associations are welcome to register to the GPS Chemicals Portal to share relevant information on chemicals if not already ICCA Connect members. To know how to proceed, download the contributor help guide.

We believe better public access to relevant information on chemicals in a risk-benefit format will increase public awareness and will lead, in turn, to greater accountability on the part of industry.

Advocates for a combination of regulations and voluntary programs consistent with our principles. Aims to harmonize global level of product safety assessment by:

• Defining a “base set of information” for chemicals in commerce
• Sharing of relevant information for safety assessment between companies
• Promoting a tiered process for evaluating risk and identifying appropriate risk management actions for chemicals in commerce
• Extending the guidance for safety assessment (e.g. ICCA Product Stewardship Guidelines) on a global scale
• Helping to define safe use conditions for chemicals and provide guidance to companies to enable them to meet safe use conditions
• Calls for measuring industry performance and public reporting
• Improves product stewardship cooperation with downstream customers of the chemical industry
• Supports partnerships with intergovernmental organizations and others to enhance product stewardship
• Enhances outreach and dialogue with customers, the public and other stakeholders

Our member associations and companies will be more transparent about their product safety assessment processes and provide access to information in a suitable format to coproducers and customers to increase public confidence that governments are fulfilling their role and industry is meeting its voluntary commitments and regulatory requirements. We will, of course, share this information with governments to meet regulatory requirements and improve industry performance in countries where such regulations are not yet in place. Along the way we will provide capacity building for smaller and medium sized enterprises in our industry, as well as downstream customers and governments in developing countries. GPS aims to reduce existing differences in the safety assessment of chemicals between developing, emerging and industrialized countries.