The Comprehensive Handbook of Hazardous MaterialsRegulations, Handling, Monitoring, and Safety - Hardcover

Staninger, Hildegarde L.A.

9780873712477: The Comprehensive Handbook of Hazardous MaterialsRegulations, Handling, Monitoring, and Safety

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ISBN 10: 0873712471 ISBN 13: 9780873712477

Publisher: CRC Press, 1993

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The Comprehensive Handbook of Hazardous Materials features everything you need to know about hazardous materials. Topics considered include regulations, the correct handling of hazardous materials, medical surveillance programs, toxicology, equipment monitoring, respiratory protection, fit testing, emergency planning, and drum handling. Soil, air, and water sampling and decontamination are covered as well.

This book will be invaluable to all toxicologists, industrial hygienists, epidemiologists, environmental engineers, occupational health specialists, risk management experts, emergency medical technicians, emergency and hazardous waste trainers, and anyone who works with hazardous materials.

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One-stop resource

Explains regulations

Discusses safety planning guidelines

Covers engineering controls

Presents decontamination procedures

CONTENTS: Major Governmental Environmental and Training Laws. Chemical Properties of Hazardous Materials. Toxicology. Medical Program and Record Keeping. Safety Planning and Principles. Engineering Controls. Respiratory Protection and Fit Testing. Personal Protective Equipment. Drum Storage and Handling. Principles of Air and Noise Monitoring Equipment. Introduction to Sampling, Sampling Plans and Chain-of-Custody. Site Operations at a Hazardous Waste Site. Decontamination. Community Relations. Glossary of Terms. Appendix.

Catalog no. L247
1994, 560 pp., 6x9, ISBN: 0-87371-247-1
$95.00

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"The Comprehensive Handbook of Hazardous Materials" features useful information about hazardous materials. Topics considered include regulations, the correct handling of hazardous materials, medical surveillance programmes, toxicology, equipment monitoring; respiratory protection, fit testing, emergency planning and drum handling. Soil, air and water sampling and decontamination are covered as well.

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