The Benefits of Automation Lines in Labelling Chemical Products

In today’s fast-paced industrial world, the chemical industry faces unique challenges in maintaining safety, accuracy, and efficiency. One of the pivotal elements in addressing these challenges is the labelling of chemical products. Traditional manual...

Moving towards Green Energy and the Challenges That We Face

Chemical engineering, process safety and associated industries are built around the mutual core value of striving for a greener, more sustainable environment, and this can only become a realistic goal through collective efforts to...

Digitalisation in the verification of safety and environmentally critical elements in the chemical industry

Mike Meen, Technical Director at Bureau Veritas, highlights the crucial role that safety and environmentally critical elements (SCE) play in the chemical industry, and how evolving digitalisation is improving the monitoring of this equipment. Safety...

Understanding the hazards of your ingredients

Do you know your ingredients? Following the 1992 Earth Summit and 2002 World Summit, the United Nations developed the ‘Globally Harmonized System’ (GHS) or ‘Purple Book’, with the aim of producing a single worldwide system...

Bayer receives approval for ‘groundbreaking’ new fungicide

Bayer has received a regulatory ‘one-two’ for its new fungicide active substance and the first product to contain it. The Chemicals Regulation Division (CRD) of the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has approved the active...

Hazard Studies – The Value of a Staged and Methodical Approach

Hazard studies are a well-established and essential practice within the chemical industry and are intended to enable effective planning, implementation and safe operation of hazardous systems and processes. Although studies such as Hazard and Operability...

BSIF tests unveil vast quantities of non-compliant safety footwear on UK market

British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) testing has revealed that a significant amount of safety footwear produced by non-members fails to perform as advertised. Safety footwear is used to protect against hazards including slips, sharp objects,...

Turning mine waste into healthy soil

Tailings, the waste left after extracting precious and critical minerals, often contain harmful chemicals and heavy metals that can pollute soil, water, and even crops. There are over 1800 tailings storage facilities around the...

Integrating Sustainability into Hazard Studies: Making Projects Safe, Smart and Sustainable

With the uncertainty we are experiencing in relation to climate change and rising costs, professionals involved in process safety are confronted by a decision - keep project costs down or think about the bigger...

Ambient Temperatures – Are We at Risk of Becoming Complacent?

When it comes to Process Safety and the containment of hazardous substances, temperature is an important factor which requires management and control to ensure accidents such as pool fires and flash fires don’t occur....