Fertilizers Europe expects that the following requirements are in place in member companies for the management of contractors for on-site activities:
Qualification of contractors
Evaluation of...
Fertilizers Europe has established 10 principles for good safety management practices in production and storage. They are:
All sites should have a high standard of housekeeping. All sites should...
Product manufacturing is extensively regulated by law and is subject to regular audits by the authorities. In addition to the legal requirements, Fertilizers Europe has issued several Best Practice...
A product assessment should include (in Phase 3) an assessment of the SHE impacts on the business. A structured business impact assessment provides information on the product’s positive and negative...
A Safety Data Sheet (SDS) must be established for all products classified as hazardous, before the product can be placed on the market. Fertilizers Europe recommends that SDS should also be...
In a simplified manner, product development takes place in three phases:
Generation of ideas Feasibility assessment Commercialization (and/or product change)
For each phase a simple matrix of...
New products, whether brand new or improvements to existing products, must comply with a number of legal requirements before they can be commercialized. This relates to the composition of the...
The core of Fertilizers Europe Product Stewardship Program is a comprehensive understanding of the risks throughout the product lifecycle; in manufacturing, storage and transportation, and at the...
For the overall management of a product stewardship program at company level, each member company is expected to have:
A company policy statement and a program structure which reflects a high...
