Safety/HSE

Managing process safety in the round

High hazard process safety needs a holistic approach that acknowledges competencies degrade over time and need safeguards in order to be maintained, urges Richard Roff

How much fluoride is in your water?

Fluoride will be added to drinking water for millions of people in the UK under new legal powers. It will be the biggest expansion of the health measure since the 1980s. Around 1.6 million people in …

Planning gains

History provides numerous instances of catastrophic events providing the catalyst for radical economic and societal changes. Like its predecessors from the Black Death onwards, the current pandemic’s…

Managing process safety in the round

High hazard process safety needs a holistic approach that acknowledges competencies degrade over time and need safeguards in order to be maintained, urges Richard Roff

Viewpoint: Working safely with heat transfer fluids in plastics manufacture

Plastics and polymers are vital materials in manufacturing. Global Heat Transfer’s Clive Jones explains how choosing, operating and maintaining thermal fluid can impact productivity…

Process Safety April 2016

This edition of Process Safety looks at the risks posed by chemicals and nanomaterials alongside the best-practice guidelines being introduced to protect researchers and engineers.

We also examine t…