Best practice: Plant safety for pharmacy industry
Pharmaceutical factories can be classified under the fine chemical industry. From the perspective of process characteristics and asset scale, it involves processes such as material input, formulation, filling, and packaging. In the view of TUVRheinland, it is possible to first qualitatively categorize the project based on its precision and risk level. In the meanwhile, the systematic work of factory safety assessment should be carried out and combined with the regulation of the local market.
Normally, The Pharmaceutical factories are at medium precision and medium-high risk levels. From the perspective of professional types, they involve fields such as chemical engineering, machinery, and automation, including process industries, customized manufacturing systems, precision machinery equipment, intelligent three-dimensional warehousing, and other specialized areas. They involve multiple risk elements such as process safety, explosion-proof safety, mechanical safety, and functional safety. Among them, the upstream is more focused on process safety and explosion protection fields, the downstream is more focused on machinery and electrical safety, and functional safety needs to be planned from the perspective of the overall safety control system of the production Line.
Based on this, the safety assessment of pharmaceutical factories needs to integrate various safety specialties for systematic risk management and reduction measures to lower the overall project risk while meeting local compliance requirements.