Product Stewardship
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Product Stewardship

ERM’s experts help bring products to market responsibly, managing risks and sustainability.

Every organisation is at a different stage in product stewardship. ERM guides you from assessing risks to embedding sustainable practices, helping deliver safe, compliant, and future-ready products.

Your Product Stewardship journey

Each organisation progresses differently in stewardship maturity, and ERM supports the full lifecycle from risk assessment to performance acceleration.

Regulatory Compliance Assessment

Identify applicable global regulations and determine current product obligations across markets.

Risk and materiality evaluation

Analyse product risks to prioritise issues with greatest potential business and compliance impact.

Portfolio benchmarking

Compare product sustainability and compliance performance against peers, standards, and internal expectations.

Substance and data review

Assess chemical usage, data quality, and documentation to expose gaps and improvement needs.

Product Stewardship programme design

Build governance structures and operating models enabling consistent, scalable stewardship across portfolios.

Sustainable product strategy

Define long-term sustainability direction aligned with regulatory trends, customer expectations, and business goals.

Circularity and ESG integration

Embed circular design principles and ESG considerations into product development and decision processes.

Roadmap and prioritisation

Develop actionable improvement roadmaps that sequence initiatives for maximum regulatory, sustainability, and business impact.

Global compliance operations

Deliver ongoing product compliance activities ensuring continual market access and regulatory alignment worldwide.

SDS authoring and documentation

Produce accurate, compliant safety data sheets and labels for global chemical and product markets.

Supply chain data collection

Gather verified supplier data required for reporting, disclosure, and customer transparency obligations.

Regulatory submission management

Prepare and deliver required product registrations, dossiers, and updates to meet jurisdictional requirements.

Lifecycle sustainability optimisation

Lifecycle Sustainability Optimisation – Identify opportunities to reduce impacts, improve materials, and enhance sustainability throughout lifecycles.

Eco-design and LCA

Apply lifecycle assessment insights to guide design choices that improve environmental performance.

Digital compliance automation

Implement digital tools simplifying data management, monitoring changes, and automating compliance workflows.

Continuous improvement programmes

Establish ongoing optimisation processes strengthening stewardship performance, efficiency, and resilience over time.

Key services

Aligned to your priorities, these services combine regulatory expertise, sustainability leadership, and digital enablement to deliver measurable progress.

Product compliance & market access

We help organisations navigate global regulations with robust compliance management, including regulatory intelligence, dossier preparation, SDS authoring, and labelling—ensuring safe, timely access to international markets.

Sustainable product strategy & design

We support clients in embedding sustainability across their portfolios through lifecycle assessment, circular design frameworks, ESG integration, and long-term product strategy that drives resilience and environmental performance.

Digital stewardship & lifecycle optimisation

We enable smarter, more efficient stewardship through digital tools, automation, data management, and continuous improvement programmes that enhance product sustainability, reduce risk, and strengthen operational performance.

Why product stewardship matters

Effective product stewardship isn’t just ‘regulatory red tape’ — it’s a strategic lever that reduces risk, protects brand, and unlocks growth.

Regulatory expectations are increasing, making proactive compliance essential for reducing risk and maintaining market access.

What’s voluntary today often becomes mandatory, so staying ahead helps future-proof products and operations.

Strong stewardship reduces health, safety and environmental impacts, protecting people, ecosystems and brand reputation.

Embedding sustainability into products creates competitive advantage, strengthening investor confidence and meeting customer expectations.

Our impact

See how ERM has partnered with clients to deliver real-world product stewardship outcomes.

ERM in numbers

Our experience and insights are cross-industry and on a global scale

23,000

projects worked on in FY23

8,000+

employees in 40+ countries globally

152

countries where we worked on projects in 2023

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