responsible care documents and kpi faq

All reports are treated with the greatest confidentiality. No company names and individual company KPI data will ever be mentioned publicly by ECTA. Most figures provided by RC members are consolidated by ECTA and the consolidated output will be published. This communication is used in ECTA’s annual RC report or in other ways (e.g. Social Media) to communicate about trends.

The main benefit is the opportunity to benchmark your performance against the chemical transport sector. The ECTA RC KPI forms are aligned with the specific requirements of the 2025 SQAS modules. Not only can you use the KPI forms as supporting documents during SQAS and other audits, but they also provide you an easy starting point in the discussions with your chemical customers and facilitates a more uniform approach.

The creation of SQAS in 1992 was closely linked to the Responsible Care program of the European Chemical Industry. The ECTA Responsible Care program, which started in 2009, is based on the formal agreement between Cefic and ECTA. This agreement includes references to the use of SQAS to define basic priorities regarding the requirements all ECTA RC member companies must meet. One clear example is the ECTA RC KPI form that is used for annual reporting. The relationship with SQAS is also made clear in the 2025 SQAS Core question 5.2.4.

• Section 7.2 of Transport KPIs now requires the split of fuels used to be shown in litres
• Section 8 of Transport KPIs (Section 5 of Warehousing and section 6 of Cleaning) has been fully updated in line with SQAS 2025
• The requirement to identify emission reduction initiatives has been removed as we now expect to start seeing the reductions reflected in the figures over the coming years
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The questions include references to specific questions in SQAS 2025. In turn, SQAS follows the methodology contained in the GLEC framework and ISO14083. You can also use the ECTA/Cefic Guideline on Emission Calculation published in October 2025 to help in understanding the requirements.

For some years now the world around us is focusing hard on the loss of plastic pellets or granulates. Producers are improving the control systems to avoid pellet loss, e.g. through their Operation Clean Sweep program. ECTA has also adopted this as a key area in its RC program and we want RC members to share their incident statistics via the KPI reporting.

See information on guidance tab of the KPI Form.

Tonnes delivered divided by number of moves.

The correct number to report is 3, as we talk about full-time employees (~40h/week).

Major RTC includes injury to driver or damage >€10,000.

It is also mandatory to send your annual improvement plan to ECTA annually. Above you find a template to download.