Industrial Manufacturing Techniques

Health and Safety Legislation

Health and Safety at Work Act 1974: This serves as the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in the UK. Its goal is to secure the health and safety of people at work.
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999: This law necessitates that companies execute an analysis of the health and safety risks to which their employees are exposed at work.
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) 2002: This legislation covers substances that are hazardous to health. It requires employers to control substances that can harm workers’ health.

Hazards in Scientific Organisations

Chemical hazards: These include hazardous substances like toxic, corrosive or flammable chemicals.
Biological hazards: These are organic substances that pose a threat to health, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
Physical hazards: These hazards include conditions that can harm workers, such as extreme temperatures, radiation, noise, and ergonomic issues related to lifting and repetitive motion.

Manufacturing Techniques (Organic Liquid)

Distillation: Is a purification process where the components of a liquid mixture are vaporised and then condensed and isolated.
Extraction: This technique separates compounds based on their relative solubilities in two different immiscible liquids usually water and an organic solvent.

Manufacturing Techniques (Organic Solid)

Crystallisation: This is a separation technique that results in the formation of solid crystals of a substance from a solution after a process of evaporation or sublimation.
Filtration: A technique that separates solids from fluids (liquids or gases) by adding a medium through which only the fluid can pass.

Industrial Manufacturing Techniques

Batch production: This involves completing one operation at a time on all units before performing the next.
Continuous production: This involves all tasks being done in sequence continuously on a product, one after the other without any break.
Quality control: The process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production. This approach places an emphasis on three aspects: Elements such as controls, job management, defined and well managed processes.