Occupational Health Categorizations

OHC

The occupational health categorization (OHC) is a health-based risk assessment, developed to guide appropriate manufacturing and worker handling for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) with limited information. 

An OHC is appropriate for early-stage, novel pharmaceuticals currently in non-clinical testing or Phase I clinical trials, or for investigational compounds about which little is known.

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This report is often requested by Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs) or Contract Research Organizations (CROs).

These reports are 2-3 pages long, written for a non-technical audience, and include summarized information about hazard and risk.

We will categorize each compound according to your company’s internal Categorization System (usually 2-5 categories).

Each category corresponds to a range of acceptable worker exposure, and internally prescribed handling practices. This report may also be used for effective communication of hazard and risk to your workers, or outside contracting companies.