When did you last review your Hazardous Area Classification?
On the 1st of October 2024, the Energy Institute published the 5th edition of their ‘Model Code of Safe Practice Part 15: Area Classification for Installations Handling Flammable Liquids’ (EI15). The introduction of this...
The Third Dimension of Risk: using organisational maturity to assess and mitigate risk
Mike Meen, Technical Director at Bureau Veritas, assesses whether the traditional two-dimensional approach to risk is adequate in today’s complex society, and highlights the importance of organisational maturity and resilience in hazardous environments.
The traditional...
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...