Partnerships
The EICC joined the Clean Electronics Production Network (CEPN), facilitated by Green America. This multi-stakeholder effort includes participants from the academic, government, NGO and business communities. The CEPN is working to prototype, pilot and scale effective monitoring and control systems to prevent worker exposure to harmful chemicals by empowering and engaging workers, tracking and measuring worker exposure, finding safer substitutions and enabling faster, easier process chemicals reporting. Several EICC member companies are also participating directly in the CEPN.
All of our chemical management work has benefited from significant feedback from well-respected NGOs and is being conducted in collaboration with civil society organizations.
Next Steps
At an EICC Leadership Circle event in June 2016, the Safe Use of Hazardous Substances and Chemicals was identified as one of four key focus areas that members want the EICC to address and continue to prioritize. We are educating members, their suppliers and workers through in-person trainings, online courses, webinars, and discussions at outreach meetings around the world and at our annual conference.
We anticipate that many of the concepts and ideas developed throughout 2015 and 2016 will help inform and potentially be part of the next EICC Code of Conduct review process, which kicks off in early 2017.
We recognize that there is still much work to done around the safe use of chemicals and reducing worker exposure. The EICC and its members are committed to staying the course, working with partners and making meaningful progress on this important issue.