Become a Signatory
A safe, healthy work environment is a basic human right. Protecting workers from exposure to toxic chemicals requires collective action.
Signatories commit to six Toward Zero Exposure commitments to protect workers from process chemicals in manufacturing. They are invested in engaging with workers and reporting their progress.
The complexity of electronics manufacturing supply chains means no single company can solve these problems alone. Suppliers serve multiple customers; brands share multiple suppliers. Only by working together can these companies move toward zero exposure of workers to toxic chemicals.
It’s the right thing to do. And it is the right way to do business.
In an era of increased global transparency, companies are focusing more than ever before on protecting workers in their own facilities and throughout complex global multinational supply chains.
Aligning the practices, tools and priorities not only makes protecting workers more achievable, such coordination also stands to boost efficiency and ease documentation, strengthening the credibility of progress being made to protect workers.
Why Join?
Credibility Through Commitment & Accountability
By making the commitment, companies publicly indicate that they value worker safety. By following the Toward Zero Exposure program guidelines, they prove it.
How it Works
Company actions are guided in a structured program with researched and pragmatic activities backed by the credibility of industry leaders and NGOs.
The Toward Zero Exposure program includes clear documentation on progress including benchmarks, milestones and deadlines for program activities.
Why it Matters
Participating in the commitment program provides a forum and a structure to communicate and receive recognition for the work companies do to protect workers from hazardous process chemicals.
Consumers and investors increasingly see worker health and safety as an imperative.
Through group effort, companies have the power to affect massive change across the supply chain.
The Power of Alignment
By joining this group of leaders, companies proactively move the electronics industry to a safer supply chain, a shift that no single company could achieve alone. Acting together lowers the risk, expense and operational complexity of this journey.
The benefits of protecting workers from hazardous process chemicals are broad and systemic, so a unified approach is appropriate and beneficial.
Sending a unified market signal to chemical suppliers will incentivize them to offer more products that meet evolving requirements.