Safety matrices

Kent David, The Safety Matrix People Applying Technology to Yield Safe Chemical Plants and Products... 

Society s expectations play a growing role as an outside influence on the safety matrix. Those expectations are expressed in laws and regulations which affect how and where the chemical industry will produce and market its products, as well as in the reception its products receive in the marketplace. 

The Reactive Chemicals Program is an important element in Dow s safety matrix. The research role includes support of the Reactive Chemicals Program, as well as maintaining location reactive chemicals programs within the research organization. The engineer selecting equipment and... 

The chapter, Safety Matrix People Applying Technology to Yield Safe Chemical Plants and Products by Davis of Dow Chemical, is concerned with protecting and improving safety in chemical plants. Dow Chemical has dramatically improved its safety record and seized a leadership position among chemical companies in the past decade. This improvement is not an accident, but the result of a dedicated attitude and systemic application that should be exported to the entire chemical industry. The lessons here would make us all winners and demonstrate that the chemical engineers are the solutions rather than the problems. 

In negotiating to purchase raw materials, BASF uses a safety matrix to evaluate the dangers posed by their physical and chemical properties. Suppliers are also subject to environmental and safety audits by BASF employees to minimize pollution and to assure their use of safety standards are in accordance with Responsible Care. The company s environmental criteria are supplemented with minimum social standards that suppliers are expected to meet, including the prohibition of child labor and the use of forced or bonded workers. 

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