Richard Denk has studied mechanical engineering and did an examination on experts of GMP, qualification and validation, pharmaceutical auditing, phar­maceutical engineering, quality control at the University of Applied Sciences in Albstadt/Sigmaringen Germany. Richard works at SKAN AG, headquartered in Allschwil, as the head of sales containment. He founded the expert Con­tainment Group of the ISPE DACH eight years ago. The Containment Group published the Containment Manual in September 2015. Richard has spent nearly 20 years working with highly active/highly hazardous substances and has developed the containment pyramid.