EHS Standards Critical for Global PV Industry Excellence
 By Bettina Weiss
Executive Director, SEMI PV Group
The PV industry needs a common set of Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) standards and guidelines to help advance industry-wide cost reduction, reduce EHS risks and liabilities, and sustain and protect our shared reputation. Several decades of consensus standards development have shown that failure to work together on a global scale is expensive, unproductive and invites external regulation. The PV industry is no exception.
PV industry stakeholders have been engaged in global standards efforts to address critical cost reduction opportunities in a variety of areas, but not in EHS. The industry has also collaborated on a regional level to address regulatory requirements in hazardous materials and greenhouse gases, regional fire safety codes, solar panel recycling, and other issues.
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