All Safety articles
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Business
Vent and burn in East Palestine train derailment was unnecessary
Safety board investigation confirms faulty wheel bearing caused crash
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Opinion
A post-Flixborough risk assessment
In the last 50 years, attitudes to safety have improved so that first-hand experience of lab incidents is now rare
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News
‘Fire and devastation’: 50 years on from the Flixborough disaster what’s changed?
Lessons from deadliest chemical accident in UK history are still relevant today
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Business
Two explosions in India leave at least 11 dead and dozens injured
Blasts occurred at a peroxides plant near Mumbai and an explosives factory in Chhattisgarh
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Research
Why are there metal particles in never-used cannabis vapes?
Findings cast doubt on past research showing metals are solely released by e-cigarettes when the devices’ coils are heated
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Research
3D-printed capsules enhance speed and safety of synthetic chemistry
Encapsulated reagents allow chemists to ditch their Schlenk line to synthesise ferrocene
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News
EPA’s updated chemical risk management plans rile industry groups
12,000 chemical plants required to draw up emergency plans for extreme weather and share hazard information with local communities
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Opinion
Making chemicals safe and sustainable
The green transition is an opportunity to also make industry simpler and safer
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News
‘Hobby chemist’ guilty of possession of acids without a licence
Cheshire man receives 12-month community order
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Business
Explosion at Indonesian nickel plant kills 19 workers
Police halt operations at the nickel smelting facility on Sulawesi island, while workers call for better safety measures
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Careers
The chemists creating knowledge-sharing websites
Speeding up scientific progress by sharing organic chemistry techniques, lab safety resources and computational procedures
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Careers
Online resources for chemists
A selection of tools, databases and advice sites to support your research
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Business
Lapsed US chemical security programme leaves facilities at risk
At least 200 new facilities acquired chemicals in the past four months that require better safeguarding, US agency estimates
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Business
US ammonia tanker spill kills five
Seven others hospitalised after traffic incident released 15,000 litres of anhydrous ammonia
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Feature
How to prepare for a lab catastrophe
Nina Notman looks at steps scientists can take to better protect the content of their labs from floods, fires and other disasters
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News
Four children injured after another chemistry demonstration goes wrong in Spain
An outreach experiment triggered a fire and a small explosion, sending four children to hospital
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Feature
Are hair relaxers damaging to health?
Different chemistries have been designed to turn curly hair straight, but in all cases questions remain about their safety, finds Rachel Brazil
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News
Two-year suspended prison sentence for irresponsible home chemist
Conviction follows discovery of explosive precursors that led to evacuation of homes in Yorkshire