Background: Critical risks are one of the most important problems in industries, which have high costs for the industry. This study aimed to assess critical safety and health risks through job safety analysis and analytic hierarchy process in industrial printing. Materials and Methods: The present study was conducted as a descriptive and analytical in one of the printing industries in Iran, in...

This study examined the efficacy of a condensed version of the Seeking Safety intervention in the reduction of trauma-related symptoms and improved drug abstinence rates among women in residential chemical dependence treatment. One hundred and four women were randomly assigned to treatment including a condensed (six session) Seeking Safety intervention or the standard chemical dependence interv...

The main objective of the European network S2S, “A gateway for plant and process safety” is to promote safety and research on safety in chemical and related industries. From its very beginning, the idea of S2S was to seize the experience of the involved institutions in benefit of the SME’s and – as a consequence – in benefit of the worldwide community. All experts are aware that safety knowledg...

Expert Judgements in Risk Analysis: a Strategy to Overcome Uncertainties David N. Pluess, Amela Groso, Thierry Meyer* a Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Group of Chemical and Physical Safety, Station 6, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland b Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Occupational Safety and Health, School of Basic Sciences, Station ...

In response to 9/11 and the increasing concerns over chemical sector security, Congress gave the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the authority to regulate the safety and security of U.S. chemical facilities. In April of 2007, DHS passed the interim final rule called the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) in order to secure the U.S. chemical infrastructure. Unfortunately, t...

In 1998 the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) launched the Convention Project on Chemical Safety in developing countries. The project aims to support developing countries in the implementation of the Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, create human resources and institutional capacities and to demonstrate via pilot measures how chemical safety in the partner countries c...

honey is the oldest natural food produced by honeybee and comprises wide variety of valuable ingredients including carbohydrate, proteins, minerals, vitamins, organic acids, polyphenols and flavonoids that contribute to well-known therapeutic properties. this review provide available scientific information on different ways of honey adulteration and chemical contamination with the certain focus...

This fact sheet describes what the Material Safety Data Sheet is, how it is to be used, and covers the sections of the MSDS. The Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) is a technical bulletin that provides workers and emergency personnel with the proper procedures for handling or working with that substance. The MSDS includes information such as physical data (melting point, boiling point, flash poi...