In December, 2009 URALCHEM joined the international Responsible Care programme. Responsible Care is a large scale initiative by chemical industry representatives that has been started to increase technical, labour and environmental safety and improve the quality of production processes and final products. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established Responsible Care in order to secure sustainable development of chemical enterprises and chemical industry in general. Companies Nizhnekamskneftekhim, Apatit, Shchekinoazot have also become participants of Responsible Care in Russia.

Implementation of the programme will facilitate sustainable development of the enterprises and provide access to the world best practices in industrial and environmental safety. Application of the world best practices in Responsible Care will improve the competitiveness and energy efficiency, labour protection, minimizing risks in course of transportation and storage of chemicals.

From the time when URALCHEM was founded, it has always taken a very responsible approach concerning issues of safety and protection of labour and environment at the Company’s enterprises. The Company has adopted a policy on the use of natural resources and general environmental safety. To comply with the policy, URALCHEM enterprises hold a number of events to gradually decrease the load on the environment and secure ecological safety in course of the production process. These steps  include putting into operation modern facilities and purification systems, utilization of industrial waste and recultivation of waste site.

The Company pays close attention to the safety of production processes, creation of safe working places for the Company’s employees, protection of people’s health in the areas of Company’s enterprises operation. The Company has taken a number of steps to put into operation modern systems of production safety and systems to decrease the risk of emergencies.