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Responsible Distribution is a hallmark standard of the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD). At this year’s ChemEdge conference in The Woodlands, TX, I’ll do a deep dive into roles and assignments of various team members when a crisis situation is emerging. During the Responsible Distribution Workshop, members will get all new tips on how to boost their Code VII crisis preparedness. #crisiscommunications

Responsible Distribution is a hallmark standard of the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD). At this year’s ChemEdge conference in The Woodlands, TX, I’ll do a deep dive into roles and assignments of various team members when a crisis situation is emerging. During the Responsible Distribution Workshop, members will get all new tips on how to boost their Code VII crisis preparedness. #crisiscommunications

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Cybutryne is present in the Table A of the 2023 Guidelines for the development of the Inventory of Hazardous Materials - RESOLUTION MEPC.379(80) adopted on July 2023

From the desk of Sandra Bernard, Process Engineer III: Lochmueller's Water Resources team has taken an active role in learning about the regulatory climate and actions for PFAS compounds. Learn more about what PFAS is and how we're responding to it: https://hubs.li/Q024PWTy0

Interested in improving your process safety knowledge and practice? Check out this web page from the European Commission Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC) that provides a list of sources of chemical accident information. The web page contains links to open source databases, publications, and authorities that investigate and report on chemical accidents. Some of the sources include ARIA (France), IChemE Loss Prevention Bulletin, U.S. Chemical Safety Board, and Japanese Failure Knowledge Database. These are just some examples of the sources available on the web page. Find more sources covering different aspects and modes of chemical accidents, such as transportation, pipelines, munitions, etc. Learn from chemical accidents to prevent them in the future. Check out the valuable resource here: https://lnkd.in/drZgHkyk

LEST WE FORGET    I am (so far as other constraints permit) making a daily post of process and other safety events which have happened on that day in previous years.  I will intersperse these with mental health and safety incidents, since my twin passions are process safety and mental health and safety.    This is to promote thinking and is based on the theory that, by and large, we don't invent new ways of killing people: we fail to adequately learn from the mistakes of the past.    On this day (21st January) in 1969, the Lucens reactor accident occurred. https://lnkd.in/e3Ndx2pG What can your organisation learn from this? Have you read my books “HAZOP Questions”, “HAZID Questions” and “Let’s talk about mental health and safety?”

This just published book includes a chapter on climate change and the regulator-regulatee relationship that I have committed. It is freely accessible here: https://lnkd.in/eF5Hp9Qh The gist of it is: #climatechange is pushing #industrialsafety #regulation to its limits. That's true however we think of industrial safety regulation: as a response to market failure, a way to make hazardous industries acceptable, or a way to ensure key societal functions (energy supply, communication, transport...) continue uninterrupted. Market failure: climate change is already associated with an increase in the number of NaTech events (technological accidents triggered by natural extremes), and may cause the industry's "externalities" and "market failures" to take a whole new dimension. Warren Buffet has taken note and anticipates government taking over utilities at some point because the material threats of climate events are too great for private investors (https://lnkd.in/eDMDc7Ki). Social acceptance: more industrial accidents and the indictment of hazardous industries for their responsibility in the climate crisis will make it increasingly impossible for regulators to make those industries "acceptable" to society. Uninterrupted social functions: climate change is increasingly likely to force the interruption of services delivered by hazardous industries. Industry generation and distribution may stop because of various risks (note the pre-emptive public safety power shut-offs now applied in California to reduce the risks of wildfires; https://lnkd.in/ewEBteMs), including the risks of overheating (https://lnkd.in/eygQ4rdU). Air travel and transport are also projected to be increasingly difficult and hazardous (https://lnkd.in/eRMDnMJN). If regulation is pushed to the limit in its core functions by environmental conditions going ever more frequently beyond the limits that technological systems and humans can withstand, then the regulator-regulatee relationship as we know it cannot not evolve. I made a few proposals for change in that regard in the chapter.

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