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White Paper: Sustain a Culture of Safety |
Providing a safe and healthy workplace is a core value for every employer across the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. However, quickly creating and producing complex chemistry requires complex safety practices.
Leverage New Technology to Mitigate Risk
Techniques that allow for automation and understanding of research, development and manufacturing processes help to establish and sustain a culture of safety while speeding project timelines.
Our featured white paper discusses personal, process and environmental safety considerations and presents tools and techniques to avoid incidents.
The Impact of Safety
A working environment that fosters a culture of safety ensures that scientists stay healthy, engaged and productive. Well-understood processes, that are designed with safety and the environment in mind, operate profitably and sustainably. By identifying unsafe and non-viable reactions early in the development process, scarce resources can be deployed more effectively. By removing unsafe procedures and processes, an injury-free workplace is possible.
Overall, a holistic consideration of safety in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries is beneficial to all involved partners:
Reaction Calorimetry provides an understanding of a chemical process and is a source of safety and scale-up information. Reaction calorimeters determine how chemical reactions can be safely transferred from the lab to manufacturing and identify issues related to heat and mass transfer or mixing.
New automated sampling techniques eliminate sampling challenges with an inline method of taking representative samples from reactions where manual sampling is tedious and error-prone.
In chemical process scale-up, understanding temperature change and the associated heat that is accumulated by the reaction are critical to process safety.
Grünenthal Process R&D safely automates dosing and runs highly exothermic reactions unattended to increase productivity without additional staff.
As chemical reactions are scaled from lab to manufacturing, potential safety issues of non-scalable conditions need to be identified early in development. Reaction calorimetry provides crucial information quickly, which can be applied to quantify the risks and criticality associated with a chemical process.
This presentation discusses the implementation of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) reaction monitoring technology to provide knowledge and understanding about key reaction parameters that enabled successful hydrogenation.
This webinar focuses on applications and the importance of mixing and reaction calorimetry in the chemical process industry. A series of industrial case studies on the fundamentals of scale-up are presented.
Dr. Francis Stoessel of the Swiss Safety Institute uses reaction calorimetry data to evaluate thermal risk.
