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Safety Delta Netherlands - Innovation Centre

Find, connect, renew in safety

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The SDN Innovation Centre connects companies, science and government in order to accelerate innovations and create knowledge that will sustainably strengthen the safety and competitive power of the chemical industry.

Innovations in safety play an important role in ensuring the safety of Dutch industry. This page provides information about our innovation programme: activities, news, research questions, information sources and projects.

The Innovation Centre provides insight into the developments taking place in the Netherlands, brings research and innovation needs and partners together. The centre will initiate and coordinate new research programmes, improve and develop existing and new safety concepts, and help to find funding sources for these.

Our Mission

The Innovation Centre provides insight into the developments taking place in the Netherlands, brings research and innovation needs and partners together. The centre will initiate and coordinate new research programmes, improve and develop existing and new safety concepts, and help to find funding sources for these.

Our focus

The focus is on innovation around a number of spearheads that link up with trends and developments in the market, such as:

  • mindware - e.g. psychological safety, culture, leadership and learning

  • software ' - e.g. safety management systems, Learning from Incidents or new models/methods; and

  • hardware ' - for example, Asset Integrity and the development of new technical safety products.

Research questions

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Research questions

This involves making substantive connections with the major challenges, developments and transitions of our time, such as energy transition, climate, social earning capacity and the development of key technologies, and the search for social added value. A work plan is currently being drawn up in collaboration with our stakeholders.

Innovation Top-6 Research Questions

The Innovation Centre defined research questions on the basis of individual discussions with frontrunners and signatories of the SDN covenant. These research questions were then supplemented and completed by the SDN Knowledge Centre's Sounding Board), and the SDN Innovation Centre's Programme Board and Science Board.

Innovation projects

SDN as a Liaison Partner in Innovation

  • Green Hydrogen Inherent Safety Practices on large Industrial Scale

  • MOOI 2022

  • Innovations in Digitisation and Big Data

Articles - Innovation

  • Horizontaal toezicht in het omgevingsdomein

  • Onderzoeksvraag “Ethical Fading”

  • Symposium Veiligheid in de Toekomst – 31 maart 2022

  • De robots komen uit de kooi – Digitaal symposium 9 december 2021

  • Brightsite: HSE-management in het tijdperk van Artificial Intelligence

Ask your questions or share your suggestions

Do you have any ideas for innovations in safety concepts? Where do you think we, as Safety Delta Netherlands, still have to make progress in the field of safety?

Are you looking for information on innovation projects?

Let us know and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

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