Disposable and Arc Rated Chemical Suits

The development of new and improved chemicals and formulated products is costly and time-consuming due to the experimental programs required to explore all available chemistries, ingredients, and process options.

Recent regulations such as the 2016 amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and regulatory agencies such as the European Union (EU) have begun to encourage alternatives to animal testing to assess chemical hazards. These efforts aim to replace animal tests with reliable and validated non-animal methods. This webinar series will highlight the regulatory landscape of toxicity testing requirements and acceptance of animal testing alternatives for industrial chemicals with a specific focus on the 2016 update to TSCA. It will showcase novel and emerging non-animal hazard evaluation strategies for compliance under such regulations such as read-across, high throughput assays, and quantitative structural-activity relationships.

Performing hazard analyses are critical to safe operation in any chemically based operation or experiment. Often, engineers are approached with proposals for chemicals that have not been used in a company or research group previously. One ready reference to begin a hazard analysis is the careful review of the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for the chemical of interest. Surprisingly, the terms used in a MSDS are not fully understood. This webinar focuses on MSDS terms related to physical properties, flammability, and toxicity, explaining their definitions. Further, the webinar covers how to incorporate these data into any hazard analysis.

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has several hundred codes and standards in print designed to increase fire protection and life safety across a wide range of occupancy classifications. NFPA has numerous codes devoted to the specific hazards posed by chemical process plants. This presentation will introduce a variety of relevant codes, how they are applicable, and their relevance to improving chemical process safety. It will also discuss the main focuses of these codes and several ways in which process areas can easily become safer.