Environmental Health & Safety
Microchip is committed to the health, safety and security of its employees, contractors and vendors, as well as minimizing the environmental impact of our operations and products within the global communities in which we operate. We are committed to complying with accepted environmental practices, regulatory compliance which meets or exceeds the requirements and to strive for continual improvement in the integration of our Environmental Health and Safety Management Systems. Our environmental systems are registered to international standards, such as ISO/TS-16949, ISO-9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. Microchip's EHS group manages a wide array of programs and services, and provides EHS-related resources in the areas of occupational safety and industrial hygiene, product EHS (i.e. RoHS), training, construction, fire and life safety, contractor safety, environmental management and health services.
Over the past 20 years, Microchip’s semiconductor product portfolio has both grown and materially changed. Microchip began shipping RoHS compliant products to our distributors and customers in April 2006. As a strategic supplier to our customers Microchip has taken the additional initiative to eliminate or reduce substances that could impact the ecosystem. Starting 01 July, 2009 Microchip semiconductor production lines were qualified as “Halogen-Free” as defined per IEC 61249-2-21:2003. With this change of molding compounds, Antimony Trioxide (Sb2O3) was removed from the packages. Click here to search for RoHS products
To help everyone navigate our improvements, Microchip adopted a self-services; web based compliance informational system. This webpage contains many resources, tools and training opportunities so we hope you will find it informative and useful. If the solution that you need is not shown in these links, please contact your local sales office for assistance or e-mail productenvironmental@microchip.com
