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ACC developed the first PS Code of management Practice in 1992. ACC revised the code in 2012 and it is now referred to as the Product Safety Code (1). The purpose of the Product Safety Code of Management Practices as stated by the ACC is to make health, safety, and environmental protection an integral part of designing, manufacturing, marketing, distributing, using, recycling, and disposing of our products. The code provides guidance as well as a means to measure continuous improvement in the practice of PS.

The Product Safety Code requires that companies include product safety and stewardship as part of their management systems. Product safety management requires an understanding of intended product uses, a science‐based assessment of potential risks from products, and consideration of the opportunities to manage product safety along the value chain. A key component of managing product safety by parties in the value chain is exchanging information regarding product hazards, intended uses, handling practices, exposures, and risks. PS is the responsibility to understand, manage, and communicate the health and environmental impacts of chemical products.

The Product Safety Code includes a set of 11 Management Practices, through which chemical manufacturers can evaluate, demonstrate, and continuously improve their product safety performance, while also making information about chemical products available to the public.

Specifically, the Product Safety Code Management Practices verify that chemical companies do the following:

 Undertake scientific analyses of their products, and take steps to assure they can be used safely.

 Enhance cooperation and communications along the chemical value chain, so that chemical producers and the manufacturers, distributors, and retailers who use, handle, or sell chemicals, work together to improve awareness about the safety and risks of certain chemicals, and how to manage chemicals safety along the value chain.

 Consider impacts on public health, the environment, and overall sustainability as they improve their products or develop new ones.

 Determine whether the chemicals they make pose risks, based on any new research, how the chemical is used, and whether children and other sensitive groups come into contact with them.

 Provide the public with access to product safety and stewardship information.

 Ensure that company senior executives, including the CEO, commit to a culture of product safety and accountability.