Apple Environmental Responsibility Report
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Setting high standards for the safety of our products.<br />
And the people who help make them.<br />
All our suppliers have to adhere to our<br />
Regulated Substances Specification.<br />
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100 %<br />
At our 18 final assembly facilities,<br />
100 percent of all process chemicals<br />
were free of <strong>Apple</strong>-restricted<br />
substances.<br />
We also work to protect the health and safety of the people who work in<br />
our supply chain. The standards we set for our suppliers go far beyond<br />
what’s required by law, like our Regulated Substances Specification<br />
(RSS) list, which identifies the toxic chemicals we limit or prohibit in our<br />
manufacturing processes and products. We lead audits that inventory<br />
chemical purchasing and map chemicals across our supply chain. During<br />
these audits, we also review our suppliers’ hazard assessments, industrial<br />
hygiene monitoring, risk controls, hazard communication, worker training,<br />
medical surveillance records, and chemical spill prevention plans. To date,<br />
we’ve conducted over 40 hazard assessments for all the chemicals in the<br />
cleaners and degreasers used in our final assembly sites. We’ve removed<br />
benzene, n-hexane, toluene, and chlorinated organic compounds from<br />
all of our final assembly sites, and we continue to work with our suppliers<br />
to help them better manage chemicals used in manufacturing processes.<br />
And for suppliers with higher-than-average risks of occupational health<br />
exposure, we work with them even more closely to assess and improve<br />
chemical management practices.<br />
In addition to mapping chemical use annually across all final assembly<br />
sites, our team of experts works with suppliers to assess their<br />
manufacturing process and identify substitutions or opportunities<br />
for reenginering wherever possible. We’ve already assessed 81<br />
manufacturing sites, including all 18 of our final assembly sites and<br />
63 subcomponent supplier sites—together employing approximately<br />
860,000 workers. And we plan to assess 50 more sites in 2017.<br />
<strong>Environmental</strong> <strong>Responsibility</strong> <strong>Report</strong> | 2017 Progress <strong>Report</strong>, Covering FY2016<br />
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