{"id":34,"date":"2026-08-05T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northstarmanagedit.com\/mcc3\/about\/responsible-distribution\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:48:10","slug":"responsible-distribution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.northstarmanagedit.com\/mcc3\/about\/responsible-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Responsible Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responsible Distribution is the National Association of Chemical Distributors&#8217; management-system standard, and participation is mandatory for NACD members. It is verified by third-party audit on a recurring cycle.<\/p>\n<h2>What the standard actually covers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Supplier and carrier selection<\/strong> \u2014 qualifying who we buy from and who moves the product<\/li>\n<li><strong>Product stewardship<\/strong> \u2014 understanding the hazards of what we handle and passing that knowledge downstream<\/li>\n<li><strong>Handling and storage<\/strong> \u2014 compatible segregation, containment, and inspection<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transportation safety<\/strong> \u2014 driver qualification, equipment condition, and load securement<\/li>\n<li><strong>Employee health and safety<\/strong> \u2014 training, PPE, and exposure control<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emergency response<\/strong> \u2014 planning, drills, and the 24-hour capability<\/li>\n<li><strong>Community awareness<\/strong> \u2014 being a neighbour that the surrounding area is not worried about<\/li>\n<li><strong>Continuous improvement<\/strong> \u2014 measured, documented, and audited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why it matters to a buyer<\/h2>\n<p>Chemical distribution is a business where the failures are expensive and occasionally catastrophic. A distributor operating a real management system is less likely to deliver the wrong material, store incompatible products together, or put an under-qualified driver on the road with a placarded load.<\/p>\n<p>We recognise that our customers&#8217; quality depends in part on the quality of their suppliers. That is the whole argument for holding the standard.<\/p>\n<h2>Verification<\/h2>\n<p>Our Responsible Distribution verification and our ISO 9001:2015 certificate are both available on request. Email cs@mileschemical.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responsible Distribution is the National Association of Chemical Distributors&#8217; management-system standard, and participation is mandatory for NACD members. It is verified by third-party audit on a recurring cycle. What the standard actually covers Supplier and carrier selection \u2014 qualifying who we buy from and who moves the product Product stewardship \u2014 understanding the hazards of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmanagedit.com\/mcc3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmanagedit.com\/mcc3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmanagedit.com\/mcc3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmanagedit.com\/mcc3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmanagedit.com\/mcc3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmanagedit.com\/mcc3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmanagedit.com\/mcc3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmanagedit.com\/mcc3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}