Environment

Product Stewardship

SCGC is committed to social responsibility, and commitment to continuous product development to ensure that the products do not pose a risk to safety, occupational health, and the environment, SCGC Chemicals has implemented a system to take care of products that are safe and environmentally friendly. in operation Covering the entire product life cycle and closely monitored for continuous improvement in line with international standards.

Product Stewardship System

to Ensure Safety and Environmental Friendliness

Assess the environmental impact of the product throughout the product life cycle.

Assess risks associated with safety, occupational health, and the environment of the products throughout their life cycles and implement risk mitigation measures.

Ensure that products meet related quality standards, laws, rules, regulations, safety, occupational health, and environment.

Prepare product safety information
in accordance with the Globally
Harmonized System (GHS)
guideline to ensure that customers
across the value chain can safely access and use it.

Promote the development of environmentally friendly products and seek SCGC Green Choice certification to provide customers with options and set itself apart from competitors

Promote the certification of product carbon footprint labeling to raise customers' awareness of the product's environmental impacts across the value chain.

Access and enhance the product stewardship system to continuously ensure safety and environmental friendliness.

Operations Objectives

Stewardship System: By 2025, all subsidiary companies of SCGC will establish a Product Stewardship Management System to ensure product safety and environmental friendliness. This system will involve analyzing product hazards and assessing environmental impacts, including climate-related impacts.
Carbon Neutrality: By 2025, all subsidiary companies of SCGC will obtain carbon footprint labels for their products. By 2030, they will achieve carbon neutrality through reducing greenhouse gas emissions and carbon offsetting.
Green Choice: By 2030, 67% of revenue will come from SCG Green Choice products.

Operations Performance

Product Stewardship Management System 3/15 companies

Carbon footprint product 259 grades

Revenue from SCG Green Choice 57% Direct Benefit to customer 11%

Product Risk Assessment Approach

SCGC integrates the Product Stewardship Management System as part of the Quality Management System, In the New Product Development process of SCGC, the Product Risk Assessment starts from the step of Candidate Development until the step of Launching Validation. That approach is to minimize the risks of human and environment through the product life cycle (raw material selection, production, distribution, use, and dispose).

Product Regulation Verification

The company places utmost importance on managing hazardous chemicals in its products to ensure safety and environmental friendliness. The company reviews laws, regulations, and standards related to the cancellation or control of chemical substances, both domestically and internationally, including:

1. List of hazardous substances according to the Department of Industrial Works announcement.
2. List of hazardous chemicals according to the Ministry of Labor's announcement on welfare and labor protection.
3. Ozone-depleting substances under the Montreal Protocol procedure.
4. Chemical substances according to Annex XVII of the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH).
5. Chemical substances according to the Candidate List of Substance of Very High Concern for Authorization (SVHC).
6. Hazardous chemicals under RoHS (The Restriction of Hazardous Substances).
7. Chemicals listed in California Proposition 65 to control the use of chemicals throughout the product lifecycle.

Utilize all this information to establish product specifications to ensure the product's quality, safety, health, and environmental standards.

Scope of Assessment

All products of SCGC undergo comprehensive risk assessment throughout their lifecycle aligned with ISO 31000 standards, starting from the selection of raw materials through to disposal. This evaluation encompasses compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards, focusing on potential impacts on health, occupational safety, property, and the environment.

Product Risk Assessment Work Through The Product Life Cycle

Methodology and Tools

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA): Risk assessment starts from the selection of raw materials through to the storage in warehouses before delivery to customers for use.
Product Hazard Analysis (PHA): Risk assessment start from delivery of products from the manufacturer to the customer and continues through to disposal.

Steps of Product Risk Assessment

1. Risk identification and impact categories for hazard identification

Risk Identification: Identify potential hazards such as design flaws, manufacturing defects, or risks associated with transportation, storage, handling, usage, and disposal.

- Physical hazards refer to dangers such as explosions, fire, corrosion, and reactive hazards that can cause immediate and severe impacts.
- Chemical hazards refer to dangers arising directly from chemicals or chemical reactions. These chemicals may be present in industrial facilities or workplaces in the form of raw materials, products, emissions, or waste from production processes. For example, contamination by hazardous chemicals listed under REACH and SVHC.
- Health hazards include irritation, carcinogenicity (cancer-causing potential), sensitization, and other health impacts that may take longer to manifest.
- Environmental hazards refer to situations where chemicals leak into water sources, are released into the air, or accumulate in soil and water, entering the food chain and affecting plants and wildlife.

2. 1 Risk Assessment of Product Hazard Analysis (PHA)

Analyze risk by identifying Severity (S), Cause, and Probability of Occurrence (O), and calculate the Hazard Risk Number (HRN) = S x O for each hazardous issue

2.2 Risk Analysis of FMEA

Analyze risk by identifying Severity (S), Cause, Probability of Occurrence (O), and Detection Capability (D), and calculate the Hazard Risk Number (HRN) = S x O x D for each hazardous issue."

3. Risk Prioritization

Prioritize the importance of risks based on HRN analysis scores, with risks having an HRN higher than specified thresholds requiring risk treatment

4. Risk Treatment

When encountering unacceptable risks, it's crucial to mitigate and manage them by implementing preventive measures, conducting risk reassessment post-implementation to ensure they're at acceptable levels. This includes redesigning, providing product specifications, developing product safety instructions according to the GHS (Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals), and communicating this information to employees and partners to ensure safe and environmentally friendly product use.

Example of Product Safety Instruction

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Product Hazard Analysis (PHA)

Product Hazard Analysis (PHA) is a tool of the risk management, starting from identifying, analyzing, prioritizing risks, then risk treatment. The process covers the product life cycle of transportation, storage, move, installation, intend use and misuse, and disposal. Analyze hazard impacts to human, assets, and environment.

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) Process

FMEA is a tool of the risk management in production process, starting from identifying, analyzing, prioritizing risks, then risk treatment. The process covers the product life cycle of acquiring raw material, production, packaging, and storage. Analyze hazard impacts to quality, safety, health, and environment.