Last month, I shared some perspectives about the current state of the hazardous-substance-free movement and trends that are propelling its influence. This month I’d like to discuss what I think these trends mean to industry and the potential usefulness of QC 080000 IECQ HSPM.

The European RoHS and WEEE directives were the first to impose new accountabilities, and they did so without providing directions or methods for compliance. The overall response around the world often resulted in the misdirected, wasteful expenditure of resources—losses incurred by all humankind.

It was in response to such costly chaos that wise representatives from Asia asked for the creation of an international standard to bring order to global commerce and hazardous-substance management. Stan Salot, Dennis Bradley, and Gwen Wade drafted the predecessor to the QC 080000 IECQ HSPM document. Shortly after that document was crafted, the company I lead, the Salot Bradley Group International, known as SBGi, was founded to help promote and deploy the standard worldwide through training, consulting, and software tools.

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