Beryllium

[Lou]

This is a good read too and should be included probably somewhere here on the forum. Simply for the fact that members here are perhaps more likely to deal with soluble platinum than BeO.

https://ipa-news.com/assets/sustainability/IPA_Guidance/Chapter 6_PGM_Guide.pdf

 

[Thomas M Joseph]

Thanks Lou, your input is appreciated. Highly toxic substances are inherent to refining.It is very important to protect ones self from the dangers involved. This begins with knowledge, found here on the forum.

 

[FrugalRefiner]

This is a good read too and should be included probably somewhere here on the forum. Simply for the fact that members here are perhaps more likely to deal with soluble platinum than BeO.

https://ipa-news.com/assets/sustainability/IPA_Guidance/Chapter 6_PGM_Guide.pdf

Good enough to rate a new thread of its own Toxicity Of Platinum and Platinum Compounds (with Summaries for other PGMs). Thanks Lou.

Dave

 

[Lou]

Don't thank me, thank the pocketbooks of the IPA who commissioned it.

I was perhaps triggered by the good Thomas M Joseph's post wherein he said that Be--for national security's sake--was tolerated. Indeed I seem to recall the very same utilitarian calculus applied when platinum allergenicity was a hot topic about 10 years ago, making it so far as to get before some regulatory scrutiny down in DC. Of course the PGM industry--knowing that some of the regulations are effectively impossible to comply with pointed out that the number of exposed individuals is in fact, quite small and the number whose outcomes ended up quite severe, even smaller.

All that said, a career in PGM refining isn't a long term endeavor.

EH&S is a difficult thing to do with something as allergenic as platinum and unfortunately chloroplatinates are more or less required to be in the refining game.