Program Principles

The Toward Zero Exposure program was developed under these guiding principles:

• Prioritize elimination and substitution to both eliminate hazards and align market signals to encourage chemical suppliers to bring better solutions to market

• Avoid more harmful substitutions

• Collect data and conduct shared analysis to identify key areas of risk/hazard and protect workers through controls where elimination or substitution is not yet possible

• Support and enable others to follow through research, education, pathways, and filling data gaps such as safer alternatives

• Protect workers through controls where elimination or substitution is not yet possible; ensure that workers are consulted, informed, and actively participating in protecting their health; and ensure accountability to workers and the public through verification and progress reporting

• Prevent highly toxic chemicals that are no longer in use from re-entering facilities and avoid more harmful substitutions

• Collect data and conduct shared analysis to identify key areas of risk/hazard

• Systematically expand the program into extended supply chains

• Support continuous learning and improvement