diff --git a/app/backend/approaches/chatreadretrieveread.py b/app/backend/approaches/chatreadretrieveread.py
index c570f59e..e0f8970e 100644
--- a/app/backend/approaches/chatreadretrieveread.py
+++ b/app/backend/approaches/chatreadretrieveread.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 import openai
 from openai import  AsyncAzureOpenAI
+from openai import BadRequestError
 from approaches.approach import Approach
 from azure.search.documents import SearchClient  
 from azure.search.documents.models import RawVectorQuery
@@ -200,7 +201,10 @@ async def run(self, history: Sequence[dict[str, str]], overrides: dict[str, Any]
             if filter_reasons:
                 error_message = "The generated content was filtered due to triggering Azure OpenAI's content filtering system. Reason(s): The response contains content flagged as " + ", ".join(filter_reasons)
                 raise ValueError(error_message)
-    
+        except BadRequestError as e:
+            log.error(f"Error generating optimized keyword search: {str(e.body['message'])}")
+            yield json.dumps({"error": f"Error generating optimized keyword search: {str(e.body['message'])}"}) + "\n"
+            return
         except Exception as e:
             log.error(f"Error generating optimized keyword search: {str(e)}")
             yield json.dumps({"error": f"Error generating optimized keyword search: {str(e)}"}) + "\n"
diff --git a/app/backend/approaches/chatwebretrieveread.py b/app/backend/approaches/chatwebretrieveread.py
index f51f25c1..a081a7b9 100644
--- a/app/backend/approaches/chatwebretrieveread.py
+++ b/app/backend/approaches/chatwebretrieveread.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 from azure.core.credentials import AzureKeyCredential
 import openai
 from openai import AzureOpenAI
+from openai import BadRequestError
 from openai import AsyncAzureOpenAI
 from approaches.approach import Approach
 from core.messagebuilder import MessageBuilder
@@ -143,6 +144,10 @@ async def run(self, history: Sequence[dict[str, str]],overrides: dict[str, Any],
         
         try:
             query_resp = await self.make_chat_completion(messages)
+        except BadRequestError as e:
+            log.error(f"Error generating optimized keyword search: {str(e.body['message'])}")
+            yield json.dumps({"error": f"Error generating optimized keyword search: {str(e.body['message'])}"}) + "\n"
+            return
         except Exception as e:
             log.error(f"Error generating optimized keyword search: {str(e)}")
             yield json.dumps({"error": f"Error generating optimized keyword search: {str(e)}"}) + "\n"