Systematic review of chemical safety and chemical security risk management approach

Abstract

The best practice of chemical management is crucial to prevent or minimize the risk of chemical exposure to people and the environment either caused by safety or security issues. Good chemical management must be implemented by all sectors, especially in chemical process industries and chemical laboratories since they deal with various types of hazardous chemicals. The systematic literature review focuses on initiatives to manage chemicals safely and securely. Hence, this systematic review aims to analyse the appropriate chemical safety and security risk management approaches. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) method was adopted in this study, utilizing three databases: Web of Science (WOS), Scopus, and ScienceDirect. Four main themes and 19 sub-themes have been developed from the review of 26 full-text articles, of which the main themes are the authority approach (16%), Organizational approach (63%), Individual approach (5%), and Technology-based approach (16%). From the findings, the organizational approach contributes the most to ensuring sound and peaceful chemical risk management. At the end of this study, a few limitations and recommendations have been remarked for future research.