Chemical strongholds – is your storage of hazardous materials tough enough?
Manufacturing and process industries routinely handle and store chemical, biological and radioactive (CBR) materials and other toxic substances, with rigorous measures ensuring the safety of operatives and personnel working with them. But these substances...
LOCKEN launches first contactless access control solution for explosive environments
Access control within explosive environments must meet the requirements of health & safety regulator ATEX. The dangers of “explosive atmospheres” have led to strict regulations, requiring the use of fully licensed equipment in high-risk...
Control barriers in hazardous areas; getting the right balance
The Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (DSEAR) are in place to ensure that the risk of ignited events is appropriately managed at establishments that store and/or process explosive substances. The main focus of...
Mitigating risk
In this issue, we speak to Karl Jones of OAMPS Hazardous Industries, a specialist commercial insurance broker founded in 1986. Hazardous industries are their area of expertise, and since their foundation, they’ve worked with...
Protecting Your Business
Although it’s not being shouted from the rooftops as loudly as some other insurance “trends” are, the gradual hardening of property underwriters attitude to providing cover at sites where chemicals are stored, manufactured or...
When is the right time to assess risk?
It is well understood that risk is a two-dimensional concept. We cannot understand risk if we do not have the means to predict the consequences of an incident, or the likelihood at which it...
Stepping Up To The Chemical Digitalisation Challenge
Ian Elsby, Siemens Digital Industries Head of Chemical Industry, explores new Siemens’ research into the challenges and opportunities facing the chemicals sector with the advent of Industry 4.0
The competitive environment for chemical manufacturing is...
An Unintended Consequence of Industry 4.0
Karl Jones of OAMPS Hazardous Industries looks at some of the Cyber security risks arising from the interconnectivity of networked ICS/SCADA management systems.
Industrial Control Systems incorporating Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (ICS/SCADA) as a...
SIA Re-issues Safe Handling of Solvents Safety Film
The Solvents Industry Association in collaboration with the European Solvents Industry Group (ESIG) has updated and re-issued their award-winning Safe Handling of Solvents safety film, replacing the one first released in 2006.
In line with...
What is the value of the environment?
Climate protests, the war on plastic, pollution tax. Media has shown us that concern for the environment is rapidly increasing, and it’s not just ecology and the economy that bear the brunt of environmental...