Our Global EH&S Policy
As both a responsibility and a condition of employment, every employee is required to understand and adhere to our global EH&S policy. The highest level of accountability for the policy rests with the Environmental, Safety and Public Policy Committee of our Board of Directors.

EH&S Management System
Our EH&S Management System incorporates controls necessitated by corporate policies and government regulations and supports the principles promoted by Responsible Care, Ceres and international standards such as ISO 14001 and OSH 18001. It applies to 100% of our locations worldwide.

Compliance and Audit
Our global compliance management system (CMS) includes processes and programs to identify internal and regulatory EH&S requirements, develop and implement compliance programs, and audit facility performance to identify and correct gaps.

Our CMS audit process is conducted by a full-time staff of auditors, each with over 25 years of EH&S functional and operational experience in chemical and industrial gas production plants. The group— which is independent from the facility being audited and reports directly to the Vice President, EHS&Q—audits more than 30 plants annually.

Responsible Care and ISO 14001
Responsible Care is now in 53 countries worldwide. Following initial certification in May 2005, LRQA recertified our corporate headquarters to the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care Management System (RCMS) requirements in November 2008. Ten additional Air Products facilities have been audited by LRQA since 2006.

With RCMS requirements built into our EH&S Management System, we believe our system is consistent with the requirements of ISO 14001. However, based on customers’ needs, we also have obtained ISO 14001 certification at 12 facilities.

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