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About the Award
History
In 1999, ESIG launched the first of its ground-breaking Solvents Stewardship Awards, designed to promote and share best practice in the use of solvents. The Awards were granted to those companies that had been able best to demonstrate significant and cost-effective health, safety or environmental improvements in their use of solvents.
Objectives
As part of its Responsible Care® commitment, one of ESIG's main objectives is to communicate best practices about the safe use of solvent products in a clear and concise way. Solvent users continue to seek ways to further improve their health, safety and environmental (HSE) performance. Regulations are often a useful framework, but many companies find that protecting man and the environment makes economic sense too. This is why solvent users, helped by their suppliers, have voluntarily and continuously strived to reduce emissions and improve working habits. And it is why case studies, and practical examples from the supply chain, are an essential part of this improvement. The concept of the Awards was, from the outset, to recognise companies that were undertaking innovative ways to minimise the impact of solvent use on the environment and on health, and more importantly, to share this information, so that other solvent users and handlers could also implement similar improvements.
