The paper focuses on the issues of health and safety management in chemical industry enterprises. First, the significance of health and safety management for chemical industry enterprises is presented, followed by approaches to this area, including the selected results that have been achieved since 1998 within European chemical industry. Attention is primarily paid to the occupational health pr...

This paper presents an in-house BAuA study on the evaluation of the COSHH Essentials exposure predictive model. External validation is based on measurement data obtained in BAuA field studies performed in various industries, e.g. printing industry and textile industry. In addition, measurement data and information on industrial hygiene provided by the chemical industry within the framework of t...

Chemical process industry is a high risk industry which can result in catastrophic casualties, loss of properties, and environment damage. Process safety should always come first in the chemical process industry. Researchers have made great efforts to make the chemical process industry safer for people and the environment. Effective process safety management is the guarantee for process safety....

Enzymes are protein molecules functioning as specialized catalysts for chemical reactions. They have contributed greatly to the traditional and modern chemical industry by improving existing processes. In this article, we first give a survey of representative industrial applications of enzymes, focusing on the technical applications, feed industry, food processing and cosmetic products. The rec...

The modern chemical industry developed rapidly in the 20th century. Recent chemical engineering milestones — such as the integration of systems engineering methodologies, computer control, and advances in bioengineering and new materials — are at the core of today’s chemical industry, and have made enormous impacts on human civilization. The Chinese chemical industry experienced major changes i...

Several studies have reported excesses of risk of melanoma in specific industries. Data from a case-control study in The Netherlands, including 140 cases with a cutaneous melanoma and 181 controls with other types of malignancy, were used to evaluate whether the reported associations with these specific industries could be reproduced. Adjustment for characteristics of pigmentation and exposure ...