Responsible Care

Responsible Care workshops

• Responsible Care workshops took place in Johannesburg and Durban on 15 and 16 October 2009 respectively. The title of the workshops was Driver Management –Methods of Improving Driver Performance on our Roads and an update on Recent Changes in the Transport Legislation. The workshops aimed to assist our members to obtain knowledge of best driver management practices that should be implemented to appropriately and effectively manage the professional drivers of heavy commercial vehicles. The objective was to ensure the safer transportation of chemicals and that lives are saved on the country’s roads.
  Focus topics included the following:
  • quality professional driver training
  • driver health and wellness programmes
  • effective driver medical assessment and surveillance
  • driver hours and fatigue management
  • awareness of road and rail legal requirements and compliance.

  The following presentations can be downloaded:

  • Sustainable and Safe Road Transport Operations - Best Practice (Richard Durrant)
  • Best Practice in the Development of a Driver Medical Programme (Dr Marina Botha)
  • Transportation of Dangerous Goods by Road – Driver Training and other important compliance issues (Keith McMurray)
  • Driver Wellness Programmes - Improving Commercial Driver Health and Productivity (Desire Meyer)
  • The Challenge of Change - Behaviour based initiatives to influence the business of driving (Karien Venter)
  • Fatigue Management for Commercial Drivers (Markus Immelman)
  • An Overview: Transport of Dangerous Goods by Rail – Operational and Design Requirements and Emergency Preparedness (Links Mudaly)
  • Municipal Transport Permits – Background, Developments and Progress (Richard Durrant)

• Responsible Care workshops took place in Johannesburg and Durban on 11 and 12 June respectively. The title of the workshops was Climate Change and Carbon Footprinting. The workshops aimed to assist our members to identify the ways in which climate change could affect their business and to create a strategy that will assist to manage the risks and pursue opportunities. Focus topics included the following:
  • business risks associated with climate change
  • appropriate corporate responses to these risks
  • factors that influence greenhouse gas emission reduction at corporate level
  • technical tools for business
  • government’s response to climate change
  • energy efficiency as cost saving measure
  • carbon disclosure – the Carbon Disclosure Project

  The following presentations can be downloaded:

  • Climate Change as a Business Risk – How should Companies Respond? Harmke Immink, Carbon Advisor. Promethium Carbon.
  • The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) – A Tool to Responding to Climate Change. Barney Kgope, Programme Manager for Climate Change. National Business Initiative.
  • Factors Influencing Green House Gas Emission Reduction. Eugene Muller, Business Solutions Manager, Omnia.
  • Climate Change – Technical Tools for Business. Simon Clark, Senior Consultant - Energy and Climate Change Practice. ERM –JHB.
  • Government Response to Climate Change – The National Climate Change Response Policy. Louise Lindeque. Responsible Care Manager. CAIA.
  • Carbon Risk – A Business Case. Peter Oldacre, MD CAMCO South Africa.
  • The Role of Energy Efficiency in Climate Change and Carbon Foot Printing. Zakhele Mdlalose and Marba Visagie.. Department of Trade and Industry.