ZDHC Guidelines Updates - ZDHC Commodity Chemical Guide V1.0

target audience

The training for the ZDHC Commodity Chemical Guide V1.0 is to address the expectations for:

• Brands are expected to share this guide with their supply chain, with the request to suppliers to embed best practices for managing commodity chemicals within their facilities.
• Suppliers should familiarise themselves with this guide and implement best practices commodity chemical vendor evaluation as well as storage and handling.

learning outcome

By completing this update training, you will be able to:

• Provide a list of commodity chemicals that should be responsibly managed as part of the ZDHC input chemical management implementation.
• Classify the ZDHC list of commodity chemicals into ‘virgin’ and ‘non-virgin’ chemicals for assessing ZDHC MRSL risks.
• Advise on best practices to:
  • Evaluate commodity chemical sellers for ZDHC MRSL risks as part of purchasing decisions by suppliers.
  • Storage, handling and transportation precautions for specific commodity chemicals.
• Details Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for ZDHC MRSL non-conformities in wastewater test reports as per the ZDHC Wastewater Guidelines.

course curriculum

This course will cover the following topics:

1. How does ZDHC Commodity Chemical Guide V1.0 help you when it comes to Chemical Management
2. General framework of this document and its high-level explanation
3. Implementation expectation of this document for brands and suppliers
4. Q&A