Safety Featured Articles
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How Reliable Is The Pharma Equipment You Buy?
8/13/2013
When it comes to equipment manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry, it is imperative that a product functions exactly as it was intended. Any misstep caused by faulty equipment could have catastrophic results for the company that produces a drug, but more importantly, for the patient who uses it. The serious consequences that can result from a lack of accurate equipment design and the associated manufacturing processes are why Donald Dobert, president and COO of ATL Pharmaceutical/Medical, created his company’s New Product Development (NPD) Planning Process.
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Does That Lab Really Need An Explosion-Proof Fume Hood?
8/8/2013
We receive many requests from customers for explosion-proof (EP) fume hoods. Customers often think that if they are working with a flammable chemical they automatically need an EP hood. In reality, only a small percentage of customers really need EP fume hoods. By Luke Savage, LEED Green Associate, Sales Engineer, Labconco Corporation
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Survey Says: Comfort Improves Safety (Part 1 of 4)
8/6/2013
Between May and June 2013, fifty-three (53) laboratory managers and professionals were polled on LinkedIn to gauge the importance of the correlation between comfort and safety. Of those respondents, 49 (92%) indicated that comfort does increase laboratory safety. By Brian Garrett, LEED Green Associate, Product Manager
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Protecting Trade Secrets And Customer Relationships In Life Sciences
4/26/2013
This article provides some practical suggestions about how to minimize the risk of theft of their proprietary information, key relationships and personnel.
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Quality Management: How Much Are Vendors To Blame?
Biopharmaceutical manufacturing is one of the most demanding industries on its suppliers: demanding that its vendors be prequalified as primary or secondary, requiring confirmations of product provenance, certificates of analysis, and other sometimes onerous documentation. All of this is done for drug product quality and consistency.
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What Is Combustible Dust?
At present there is no universal definition for combustible dust. The OSHA NEP defines it as “particulate solid that presents a fire or deflagration hazard when suspended in air or some other oxidizing medium over a range of concentrations, regardless of particle size or shape.”
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9 Steps To Remember When Performing A Supply Chain Risk Assessment
This article provides practical tools for creating a risk assessment procedure related to Good Distribution Practice (GDP) guidelines.
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Incorporating Lean Principles Into Pharmaceutical QC Laboratory Design
This article presents a case study based on an international workshop hosted by Novartis Vaccines to prepare guidelines for incorporating lean principles into pharmaceutical quality control laboratory design. By Mike Dockery, Federico Gabardi, Javier Garay, Jim Gazvoda, Luke Kimmel, Pietro Orombelli, Christophe Peytremann, Tom Reynolds, Tanya Scharton-Kersten, Graham Shoel, and Jeanne Sirovatka
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Defining Holistic Asset Criticality To Manage Risk In Biopharma
This article presents how risks to safety, quality and productivity can be managed through asset control strategies, which are created based on specific asset criticality and failure modes.