Regarding the Safety Management of Laboratory Hazardous Chemicals, Standards, and Consumables

The chemical industry is one of the pillar industries in China. However, hazardous chemicals have dangerous characteristics such as explosion, flammability, toxicity, corrosion, and radioactivity, which pose high risks in their production, storage, transportation, and disposal. Once accidents occur, they often cause serious casualties, property damage, and environmental pollution.

In recent years, there have been multiple major accidents in China, such as the "8.12" Tianjin Port Ruihai International Logistics Company hazardous chemical warehouse fire and explosion accident, which resulted in illegal storageammonium nitrateFlammable and explosive chemicals, spontaneous combustion caused by high temperature weather, and chaotic management led to the loss of control of the fire, resulting in 173 deaths and hundreds of injuries. The direct economic loss was about 6.8 billion yuan, and the surrounding environment was severely polluted. There were multiple problems with this explosion accident, including illegal operations by enterprises, lack of government supervision, and mixed storage of hazardous chemicals.

1. Guide Catalog

On February 14th, a national video conference on hazardous chemical safety supervision was held in Beijing. The conference thoroughly studied and implemented the important instructions and directives of the state on safety production, conscientiously implemented the deployment of the plenary session of the State Council Work Safety Committee and the National Emergency Management Work Conference, summarized the work in 2024, analyzed problems, assessed the situation, and arranged and deployed key work for 2025.

The meeting emphasized that this year is the final year of implementing the 14th Five Year Plan and a crucial year for promoting the three-year action plan to tackle the root causes of safety production. The tasks of preventing risks, maintaining stability, and promoting development are arduous and heavy, and the risks of hazardous chemical inventory and increment are intertwined and overlapped, facing severe and complex challenges. To face problems and challenges head-on, with the primary goal of curbing major accidentsRadical cure“Repeatedly investigating and committing crimes "is the key to breaking through the situation, transforming towards prevention in advance is the fundamental solution, systematic governance is an important lever, and a practical work style is a solid guarantee. All work should be done solidly. We need to optimize the working mechanism and improve the accuracy of preventing and controlling major safety risks. To focus on parks and enterprises, and promote the level of intrinsic safety to a higher level. Focus on key personnel and deepen professional skills and quality training. We need to strengthen the application of system construction and accelerate the development process from informatization to intelligence. We need to strengthen work coordination and promote the standardization and institutionalization of safety supervision.

2. Pain points faced by hazardous chemicals, standard products, and consumables

1、 Dangerous chemicals refer to chemicals that have toxic, corrosive, explosive, flammable, and combustible properties, and may pose a threat to human health, environmental safety, and public safety. There are safety risks in the production, storage, use, operation, and transportation of hazardous chemicals, and once an accident occurs, the consequences are very serious.Therefore, strengthening the safety management and supervision of hazardous chemicals is an important task to ensure the safety of people's lives and property and social stability.

Currently, enterprises adopt traditional manual management methods and lack effective information technology. China's hazardous chemical safety management is facing some prominent problems:

1. Unable to monitor and warn key parameters such as shelf life, inventory level, and location of hazardous chemicals in real time, making it difficult to detect abnormal situations and hidden dangers in a timely manner;

2. Unable to accurately grasp the flow and destination of hazardous chemicals, it is difficult to prevent theft, loss, or misuse, and the inventory of incoming and outgoing materials is chaotic and cannot be traced. It is difficult to effectively conduct inventory and pass various inspections.

3. Unable to comprehensively assess the safety risk level and prevention and control measures of hazardous chemicals, making it difficult to develop effective emergency plans and disposal strategies;

4. Unable to regulate the special use permits and management of the use process of hazardous chemicals, making it difficult to ensure the safety and quality of users;

5. Chemical storage does not have ventilation systems and is prone toDrug manufacturing chemicalsWithout double doors and locks, the labels are blurry, and the storage cabinet is severely corroded;

2、 A standard substance is a "reference substance" used in laboratories for calibrating instruments, validating methods, evaluating experimental accuracy, or quantitative analysis. They have clear characteristics such as purity, concentration, composition, physical properties, etc., which are the core basis for the reliability and comparability of experimental results.

The pain points of standard product management mainly focus on the following aspects, which may have a significant impact on the accuracy, compliance, and cost control of experimental results:

1. The management of expiration dates is difficult, with multiple standard varieties and varying expiration dates. Manual recording or traditional form management can easily lead to expiration dates not being discovered. Using expired standards may lead to data bias and even experimental failure.

2. Some standard products require specific temperatures (such as -20 ℃, 4 ℃), avoid light or dry environments, but monitoring methods are insufficient. Fluctuations in storage conditions (such as refrigerator malfunctions, frequent opening and closing of doors) may cause explanations or contamination.

3. The low efficiency of inventory management, inaccurate demand forecasting, or long procurement cycles have led to the interruption of experiments. Lack of real-time inventory system, relying on manual inventory is prone to errors.

4. Traceability and records are incomplete, batch information and usage records rely on paper archives, making it difficult to query and lacking a complete traceability chain (such as opening time, user, remaining quantity).

5. Personnel operation is not standardized, and standard products are not stored, packaged, or processed according to regulations. There are significant differences in the operations of different personnel, such as weighing errors and pollution risks.

3、 Improper management of laboratory consumables can lead to the following issues:

1. Inaccurate inventory data and manual recording are prone to errors, resulting in discrepancies between inventory levels and system data, which may cause experimental interruptions or duplicate purchases.

2. Difficulty in managing expiration dates, lack of effective tracking of consumables such as reagents and culture media that are prone to expiration, resulting in waste or misuse of expired products and affecting experimental results.

3. Insufficient management of the usage process, arbitrary use, lack of registration system, unclear whereabouts of consumables, and difficulty in tracing responsibility (such as loss of valuable reagents).

3. Anruis Laboratory Intelligent Information Management System

Main functions: intelligent weighing and label printing, scanning code; Information management of inbound and outbound inventory, ensuring safety and compliance; Automatic inventory and report generation; Shelf lifeminimumReminders for inventory, abnormal situations, etc.

Main functions: Intelligent information management, display of retrieval records and storage of chemical information, real-time monitoring of fan operation, filtration efficiency, temperature and humidity, optional pull-out storage unit for easy retrieval, smart door lock card swiping, multiple modes, recording card swiping information, APP mobile intelligent interconnection, online monitoring. Addressing some prominent issues in the current safety management of hazardous chemicals in China.

Anruis has recently developed an automatic consumables management system for channel doors. The intelligent all-in-one machine is equipped with two ultra-high frequency channel doors located near the door. The channel doors will automatically scan incoming and outgoing items, deduct them, make intelligent judgments, and perform intelligent statistics, achieving contactless outbound management and full process electronic traceability. It solves the pain points of safe storage, inbound and outbound ledger management, and statistical management of chemicals and items, and realizes digital ecological management of the entire lifecycle of chemicals and items.

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