Webinar series: Safety for Battery Production and Usage
—Ramping up your production facilities for lithium-ion batteries is time critical, but speed can only lead to success if you play it safe.
Learn about the safety challenges in battery production in our webinar series. Understand the risks and how to mitigate them in different steps of production, handling and use to keep your people and your plant safe for even greater sustainability.
Get valuable safety information and practical insights of our safety experts on:
- Battery safety risks and how to manage them
- Worker health and safety in battery production
- Battery plant safety from flammable atmospheres
- Emergency response in case of battery-related incidents
- Risk management and emergency preparedness
Format: Live Webinar Series
Dates: October 2nd, 16th + November 1st, 15th & 29th 2023 <NOW CLOSED>
Webinar Programme
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Speaker Profiles
—Introducing some of our expert speakers:
More technical experts, safety consultants and product managers are taking part, to help with their expertise and to answer the participants´ questions.
Professor Paul Christensen
Newcastle University
Through his research under the Faraday Institution-funded ReLiB and Safebatt projects, Prof. Christensen has sought to inform first responders of the risks and hazards of lithium-ion batteries (LiB) and hence (hopefully) to avoid injuries when dealing with battery-related fires and explosions, principally involving electric vehicles and battery energy storage systems.
He has given more than 150 presentations to first responders across the world and is the Senior Advisor to the UK National Fire Chiefs Council, serving on a number of UK Government and British Standards Institute working and governance groups. He was the recipient of 2022 Motorola Foundation Knowledge Event Series award from the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council for a lecture tour of Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. Paul also holds the Chair of Pure and Applied Electrochemistry at Newcastle University and has over 180 publications in international journals with an H-Index of 53.
Gavin Peacock
Marketing Manager - Region Europe, Middle East & Africa
In his roles as Project Coordinator and Technical Product and Portfolio Manager, Gavin has gained extensive knowledge and experience of engineering projects for Fixed Gas Detection devices and systems. He is an expert in Plant Safety and Fire, and Gas detection applications alongside Mobile Gas Detection, Breathing Protection & other safety-related products and services.
Gabriella Hakansson
Segment Sales Manager - Channel Partners (Nordic Region)
Gabriella has worked at Draeger for over 5 years now and initially was part of the Key-Account-Team of Dräger in Sweden, specialising in fixed gas detection systems. More recently, she has her focus on Dräger's channel partners, including the growing number of battery cell manufacturers in the Nordics. As an expert in the Dräger PPE portfolio, she is deeply involved in providing suitable solutions for worker's health in battery applications.
Wolfgang Huber
Marketing Manager - Region Europe, Middle East & Africa
Born in Germany and now based in Madrid, Spain, Wolfgang has worked at Dräger for over 30 years. Over half of that time was spent in South America where he worked as area sales manager and then Managing Director of the Safety business in Brazil. An expert in his field, for the past 12 years Wolfgang has been marketing manager in region EMEA specialising in light breathing equipment and personal protective equipment (PPE) with a particular focus on Dräger channel partners.
Lars Traut
Business Devt. Manager - CleanTech Solutions
Lars Traut has over 13 years of experience at Dräger in sales and product marketing for fixed gas detection systems as well as in product management for digital solutions. He is currently Business Development Manager CleanTech in Germany and brings his diverse experience to this role.
Christoph Feyerabend
Marketing Manager - Emergency & Rescue Services
With Dräger for over 20 years, Christoph is a highly experienced member of the team. During his time in the business, he has held global marketing and business development roles in the Shipping, Mining and General Industry areas. In recent years, his expertise has been focused on the safety & wellbeing of Emergency & Rescue Service workers. With the projected continued growth in the battery and EV market - his knowledge surrounding the hazards presented to Firefighters and first responders is invaluable.
Benedikt Müksch
Senior Expert Safety & Emergency Mgmt
Benedikt joined Dräger in 2015. Working as Senior Consultant for Safety & Emergency Management he is qualified as trainer for safety organization and safety culture. In his role, he supports industrial companies and public authorities to analyze their individual risk assessment and to set-up or rework their programs for emergency and hazard prevention, occupational safety and fire protection.
Lithium-ion batteries: your safety – powered by Dräger
—In a world that is increasingly moving away from conventional fuels, where we are always on the move and mobile yet connected to everything, lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are the ultimate energy storage system of choice.
