Celanese will implement management systems that incorporate appropriate scientific and risk evaluation to promote health, safety and environmental protection as an integral part of the design, manufacture, marketing, distribution, use, recycling and disposal of our products.

Risk assessment using our PSAR process
Celanese has undertaken to provide the public with information about the effects of our products on health and the environment. Our commitment to product stewardship is a key part of our contribution to the Responsible Care program of the chemical industry.

Our commitment to product stewardship is reflected in our Product Stewardship Approval Review (PSAR) process which incorporates risk assessment techniques to ensure that Celanese products and processes in research, production, storage, transportation, handling, usage or disposal of chemicals will not present any unreasonable risk to employees, customers, contractors, consumers or others.

The PSAR process assesses EHS related risks for the following:
» new and altered products
» new applications for existing products
» new processes and process changes
» new methods of transportation or product packaging


For new products this is initiated early in the experimental process and consists of three tiers of approval and appropriate risk assessment:
» Experimental approval is obtained when the product is at the laboratory stage.
» Test market approval authorizes production and distribution of a product on a limited basis for customer evaluation, e.g. for market surveys.
» Commercial approval authorizes production and distribution of a product on an unrestricted commercial basis and requires full compliance with all Celanese policies and procedures.

Celanese also participates in industry shared testing programs for its products. Examples of this include the compulsory Screening Information Data Set program run by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), but also a number of voluntary programs such as the High Production Volume Challenge Program and the Children's Chemical Evaluation Program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Celanese is a member of ten industry wide panels or consortiums which are involved in the EPA's testing programs. Sharing testing efforts with other global manufacturers assures tests are not unnecessary duplicated in different regions of the world.