The Chemical Industry Is Prepared

Licensing in the chemical industry

The War and the Chemical Industry.

The only truie basis on whiPh the independence of ouir country can rest is agriculture and manufactures. To the promotion of these nothing tends in a higher degree than chemistry. It is this scienee which teaches ian lhow to correct the bad qualities of the land he cultivates bv a proper application of the variouis species of manure, and it is by means of a knowledge of this science that lhe is...

Commuting accidents in the German chemical industry.

Due to accident severity and the extent of claim payments commuting accidents are a significant expense factor in the German industry. Therefore the aim of the present study was the identification of risk factors for commuting accidents in a German chemical company. A retrospective analysis of commuting accidents recorded between 1990 and 2003 was conducted in a major chemical company in German...

Thermal Hazards in the Chemical Industry

Thermal hazards can be broadly divided into two categories: energy released during desired reaction and energy released during unwanted reaction. The first of these encompasses enthalpies of reaction, crystallisation, melting, and dissolution whilst the second is usually associated with heats of decomposition reaction. The majority of incidents are caused by either equipment failure (e.g. loss ...

The Chemical Industry: Regulation, Innovation, and Competitiveness

The effect of environmental regulation on innovation by firms and on competitiveness by countries has been a source of theorizing and debate for more than half a century. In particular, the chemical industry, which arose in Europe and the US at the end of the 19 century together with the second industrial revolution, has been accused of causing numerous large-scale accidents, which have had sig...