Authors
- International Programme on Chemical Safety
Dewey code: 615.9257232
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Price: $5.40
Review Hydrogen Sulfide (Environmental Health Criteria) / World Health Organization:
Authors
- Committee on Radiation Source and Replacement
Dewey code: 363.3255
List Price: $50.00
Price: $30.00
Review Radiation Source Use and Replacement: Abbreviated Version / National Academies Press:In the United States there are several thousand devices containing high-activity radiation sources licensed for use in areas ranging from medical uses such as cancer therapy to safety uses such as testing of structures and industrial equipment. Those radiation sources are licensed by the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and state agencies. Concerns have been raised about the safety and security of the radiation sources, particularly amid fears that they could be used to create dirty bombs, or radiological dispersal device (RDD). In response to a request from Congress, the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission asked the National Research Council to conduct a study to review the uses of high-risk radiation sources and the feasibility of replacing them with lower risk alternatives. The study concludes that the U. S. [+]government should consider factors such as potential economic consequences of misuse of the radiation sources into its assessments of risk. Although the committee found that replacements of most sources are possible, it is not economically feasible in some cases. The committee recommends that the U. S. government take steps to in the near term to replace radioactive cesium chloride radiation sources, a potential 'dirty bomb' ingredient used in some medical and research equipment, with lower-risk alternatives. The committee further recommends that longer term efforts be undertaken to replace other sources. This book presents a number of options for making those replacements.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-04-29
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $46.95
Price: $32.50
Review Users' Guide to the National Electrical Code : Understanding & Applying the NEC 2008 / Delmar Cengage Learning:For anyone who has ever experienced the challenges of deciphering and applying the more difficult sections of the 2008 NEC®: Understanding and Applying the 2008 NEC offers fresh, easy to understand interpretations of the most challenging and commonly misunderstood sections of the NEC®. The author uses his 40+ years of experience to deliver a straightforward approach that eliminates the confusing technical and legal jargon of the code. Coverage begins by providing a tour of the NEC®, explaining its overall layout. It then progresses to how the electrical parameters of the other codes, such as building, fire,and utility codes, play a role in proper electrical installations. Perfect as an on-the-job reference to guide readers through easy, accurate installations; this is a comprehensive resource that will benefit aspiring and professional architects, engineers, electricians, inspectors, and anyone working in the electrical field.
Authors
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Publication date: 1998-08-15
Dewey code: 660
List Price: $47.95
Price: $35.51
Review Dow's Chemical Exposure Index Guide / Wiley-AIChE:Dow Chemical developed the Chemical Exposure Index to help its engineers design and operate safer facilities. This seminal guide to rating the relative acute health hazard potential of a chemical release to workers and the neighboring community is available to the chemical process community. The index uses a methodology for estimating airborne quantity released, which allows for more sophisticated process analyses. Special Details: Softcover. The Dow Chemical Exposure Index and the Dow Fire and Explosion Index Hazard Classification Guide and the are designed to complement each other, helping engineers evaluate the total hazard potential of new installations These guides are invaluable resources for process design engineers, plant managers, and others involved in the safe design and operation of chemical plants. Don't take your plant's safety analysis only halfway-Purchase both books and take $10 off the combined list price.
Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 338.76600973
List Price: $68.95
Price: $33.75
Review Unlikely Victory: How General Electric Succeeded in the Chemical Industry / Wiley-AIChE:Many companies that stray too far from their core business fail. So how is it that General Electric, a major electrical manufacturing company, ended up as one of the top U. S. chemical producers—with 1998 sales of $6. 6 billion? In Unlikely Victory, Jerome T. Coe, a retired 40-year career employee with General Electric, who spent more than 20 years as a manager of the company’s chemical businesses, suggests that it was a combination of necessity, forward-thinking of the engineers, and managers wise enough to give them breathing room. “Much of what they did (then) was counter to the prevailing GE culture,” he writes. “Today, it has become the corporate culture. ” The book tells the whole story of this successful business model, from the early years of GE chemistry through the company’s successes with silicones, synthetic diamond, Lexan polycarbonate plastic, and other high-performance thermoplastics. It also profiles four scientists and five managers—including former CEO John F. [+]Welch, Jr. , a chemical engineer and a product of the GE plastic business—who made a significant difference in the company’s chemical success. The book is amply illustrated with photographs of the people, products, and plants that contributed to one of America’s most unusual corporate success stories.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-12-10
Dewey code: 363.376
List Price: $43.95
Price: $31.87
Review The Fire Inspector's Guide to Codes, Forms, and Complaints / Delmar Cengage Learning:This groundbreaking new book offers fire inspectors, building code officials, and anyone in the field of building inspections a valuable resource that goes beyond understanding the codes to actually teaching how to enforce them. From filing charges for non-compliance to obtaining inspection search warrants to closing unsafe structures, inspectors today need to have effective documentation tools and skills to pursue fire code violators in an appropriate manner, but are often required to do so with minimal legal training. In response to this, The Fire Inspector’s Guide was developed, providing inspectors with a comprehensive set of the notices, letters, complaints and other documents that are critical to the effective enforcement of today’s most common problems and violations of the International Fire Code®. Also ideal for municipal attorneys who can use the included forms to draft legal documents, this book provides all the forms necessary to keep reporting accurate, consistent, and efficient.
Authors
- John L. Woodward
- David W. Johnson
Dewey code: 628.53
List Price: $222.95
Price: $144.37
Review RELEASE: A Model with Data to Predict Aerosol Rainout in Accidental Releases (Ccps Concept Book) / Wiley-AIChE:This book documents CCPS's Aerosol Research Program to develop a model to predict liquid rainout from release of a pressurized, liquefied gas-and, hence the residual amount of material in a vapor cloud, which may be greater than the amount calculated from an enthalpy chart. RELEASE predicts the rate of fluid discharge, the depressurization, flashing and formation of liquid drops, the entrainment of drops into the vapor cloud, the subsequent spreading of the jet, and rate of liquid rainout to a pool on the ground. Designed in a modular fashion to permit adjustment and corrections as new data become available, its multi-layered approach contains sub-models that include the complexities of many variables, including the effect of liquid superheat, rate of bubble growth, criterion for bubble formation, and heat transfer from the liquid to the growing vapor bubble. To validate RELEASE, CCPS conducted small- and large-scale experiments using superheated water, heated liquefied chlorine, methylamine, and cyclohexane that produced valuable data in an area where data are scarce. This book gives complete access, in text and on CD-ROM, to the model and the test data, giving users an informed ability to apply the model to their own work.
Authors
- Jeanne Yturri
- Patrick Aurricho
- Gayle Woodside
Publication date: 1998-05-01
Dewey code: 658.408
List Price: $53.00
Price: $36.25
Review ISO 14001 Implementation Manual / McGraw-Hill Professional:This compact, easy-access guide to ISO 14001 interpretation, implementation, auditing, and training offers you a complete "how-to" approach for setting up an environmental management system (EMS) in your company. You'll learn about all 18 elements of the EMS standard-and discover how to implement each in a cost-effective, practical way. The manual features lots of checklists, figures, templates, and tables, plus real-world implementation tips.
Publication date: 2005-01-01
Dewey code: 363.379
List Price: $34.00
Price: $30.12
Review Hotel Fire Safety - IChemE / Inst of Chemical Engineers UK:Hotel Fire Safety makes essential reading for hotel manager and proprietors, as well as frequent travelers. Complete with the do's and don't of fire safety, real-life case studies and photograph examples of best practice, the guide also includes a hotel fire assessment chart and suggests a recommended travel kit. Already proving hugely popular amongst hoteliers, as well as HR departments in selecting the hotels they choose and recommend, Hotel Fire Safety offers first-class guidance at a very affordable price.
Edition: 4
Publication date: 2001-11-15
Dewey code: 658.562
Price: $49.95
Review ISO 9000 Quality Systems Handbook (4th Edition) / Butterworth-Heinemann:Completely revised to align with ISO 9000:2000, this handbook remains the most comprehensive book available on this series of international standards. ISO 9000 Quality Systems Handbook is an essential guide to enable organizations to understand and apply ISO 9001:2000 requirements and the principles that underpin this radical revision of the family of standards. Unlike other books on the subject, each element, clause and requirement is analysed in detail with practical guidance provided for its implementation. The handbook is written for those managing existing quality systems as well as those establishing a quality system for the first time. It is written in an easy-to-follow format and style suitable for students, practitioners, discerning managers, instructors and auditors. It offers a range of solutions that are acceptable in many industries. Based on the final draft of ISO 9001:2000, it details the differences from the 1994 version and includes check lists, questionnaires, tips for implementers, process flow charts and a glossary of terms. Comprehensive and practical guideCovers over 250 requirements of the standardIncludes useful checklists, flow charts, related standards, bibliography.
Authors
- World Health Organization
Dewey code: 660
List Price: $45.00
Price: $41.00
Review Principles for Evaluating Health Risks in Children Associated With Exposure to Chemicals (Environmental Health Criteria) (Environmental Health Criteria Series) / World Health Organization:This new volume in the Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) Series provides a systematic analysis of the scientific principles to be considered in assessing health risks in children; taking into account their unique susceptibilities. The terms children and child as used in this report include the stages of development from conception through adolescence. This new EHC builds on previous volumes addressing methodologies for assessing risks in children: EHC 30, Principles for Evaluating Health Risks to Progeny Associated with Exposure to Chemicals During Pregnancy (WHO, 1984) and EHC 59, Principles for Evaluating Health Risks from Chemicals During Infancy and Early Childhood: The Need for a Special Approach (WHO, 1986). The central focus of this volume is on the child (developing embryo, fetus, infant, etc. ) rather than on a specific environmental agent, target organ, or disease. Thus, it addresses the difficult task of integrating all what is known about both exposure information, toxicity data, and health outcome at different life stages, which is especially challenging when data are limited for particular life stages (e. g. , during pregnancy). The book will be useful to public health officials, research and regulatory scientists, and risk assessors.
Authors
- Frank Taylor
- Louis Theodore
- Joseph Reynolds
Price: $125.00
Review Accident and Emergency Management / John Wiley & Sons:With the accelerated growth of the chemical industry in recent years, there has been an alarming rise in human, material, and property losses because of chemical accidents. Fires, explosions, hazardous and toxic spills, as well as equipment failures and a multitude of other mishaps, have increased the risks to employees, to society in general and to the environment. Aimed particularly at the engineering profession, this book examines the subject area from industrial, regulatory, and educational perspectives. This volume has been designed to benefit engineers, technicians, maintenance personnnel, and all those involved with air quality and environmental management.
Creator: Karl-Heinz Schaller
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-01-31
Dewey code: 501
List Price: $175.00
Price: $90.92
Review Analyses of Hazardous Substances in Biological Materials, Volume 7 / Wiley-VCH:Biological monitoring has proved extremely valuable in assessing the health risk of persons exposed to hazardous chemical substances in the environment or at the workplace. The chemical compounds are generally determined in body fluids. They are present in trace or ultratrace concentrations. Specific and extremely sensitive methods of chemical analysis are necessary to separate these substances from the biological matrix and to determine them precisely. All methods are suitable for routine use. They meet exceptionally high standards of reliability and reproducibility and are in accordance with 'Good Laboratory Practice'. Considerable emphasis is placed on sample collection methods and on analytical quality control.
Creator: Institution of Chemical Engineers
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2006-01
Price: $30.43
Review Hazards of Nitrogen and Catalyst Handling (BP Process Safety) / Institution of Chemical Engineers:Part of the "BP Process Safety Series", this book aims to increase the awareness of operators within the chemical and process industries to the hazards of nitrogen and potential hazards of using catalysts.
Publication date: 2000-03
Dewey code: 616
List Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00
Review Lessons Learned from Accidental Exposures in Radiotherapy (Safety Report Ser. Series, 17) / International Atomic Energy Agency:This Safety Report is a review of a large number of events that may serve as a checklist against which to test the vulnerability of a facility to potential accidents, and to provide a basis for improving safety in the use of radiation in medical applications. Furthermore, it is intended to encourage the development of a questioning and learning attitude, the adoption of measures for the prevention of accidents, and the preparation for mitigation of the consequences of accidents, if they occur.
Publication date: 1987-05
Dewey code: 661.0028
Price: $127.75
Review Flash Points of Organic and Organometallic Compounds / Elsevier Applied Science:
Authors
- Gloria J. Hathaway
- Nick H. Proctor
- James P. Hughes
Publication date: 1996-06
Dewey code: 615.902
List Price: $175.00
Price: $89.00
Review Proctor and Hughes' Chemical Hazards of the Workplace, 4th Edition (Industrial Health & Safety) / Wiley:Proctor & Hughes’ Chemical Hazards of the Workplace Fourth Edition Gloria J. Hathaway • Nick H. Proctor • James P. Hughes For professionals in occupational health and related fields, one reference guide has earned a reputation as the indispensable resource on unsafe chemicals: Proctor and Hughes’ Chemical Hazards of the Workplace. The legacy continues with this new edition; offering accurate, up-to-the-minute analyses of over 600 potentially dangerous chemicals all in a streamlined format that lets you find crucial information quickly and put it to work immediately. Since the previous edition of Proctor and Hughes’ Chemical Hazards of the Workplace, more extensive research (including an increased number of human studies) has led to a better understanding of which chemicals are dangerous in a work environment and why. To reflect the latest advances and regulatory standards, this new edition incorporates:Coverage of 60 new chemicalsUpdated monographsMore data on acute and chronic effects (especially as related to known exposure levels)Expanded information on carcinogenic, mutagenic, and reproductive effectsMore human studies, replacing animal data whenever possible, to provide data more relevant to occupational exposure1995 Threshold Limit Values, the latest assessments available for amounts permitted in the workplaceNew treatment protocols whenever availableNew information on medical surveillance techniques (including biological monitoring) and exposure preventionThe proven Proctor and Hughes’ format makes the following essential information supremely accessible:For each chemical, the book provides a concise profile, including the chemical formula, CAS number, Threshold Limit Value, synonyms, physical properties, sources of exposure, and routes of exposure. Specific information on dose responses, target organs, signs and symptoms of exposure, as well as carcinogenic, mutagenic and fetotoxic status, is highlighted. Thorough cross-referencing and a complete index make information easy to locate. First-source references point the way to more detailed information. [+]Introductory sections review concepts of toxicology, clinical manifestations of toxic exposure, occupational disease diagnosis, and important aspects of industrial hygiene. No occupational health professional should be without the new Fourth Edition of Proctor and Hughes’ Chemical Hazards of the Workplace.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2006-06-01
Dewey code: 620
List Price: $34.00
Price: $34.00
Review Safe Ups and Downs for Process Units, 2nd edition (BP Process Safety Series) - IChemE / IChemE:A member of the BP Process Safety Series developed as a complement to safety training, this text makes the perfect reference tool and training aid. The book increases the awareness of operators within the chemical and process industries, to the hazards present at start-up and shutdown of process units. It begins by describing the shutdown procedure, before moving on to the start-up, in both cases, explaining the need for procedures, pointing out the possible hazards and what steps can be taken to avoid them occurring. Using case studies of actual accidents to highlight the potential threats and explain the possible causes before giving potential safeguards, it raises the knowledge and awareness of operators to the dangers involved with the start-up and shutdown of process units, enabling them to spot hazards before accidents occur. The book concludes with a self-test section allowing readers to test their understanding of the information presented. An excellent introduction to the topic for students.
Creator: J. De Fouw
Publication date: 1994-12-01
Dewey code: 614
List Price: $35.60
Price: $31.60
Review Chloroform (Environmental Health Criteria , No 163) / World Health Organisation:Evaluates the risks to human health and the environment posed by exposure to chloroform, a volatile liquid used in pesticide formulations and as a solvent and chemical intermediate. Its use as an anaesthetic and in proprietary medicines has been discontinued in many countries following well-documented reports of adverse effects on respiratory, cardiac and liver function. Exposure of the general public occurs via food, drinking-water, and indoor air, with water use in homes making a substantial contribution to levels in indoor air. Studies have demonstrated significant dermal absorption while showering. The most extensive chapter reviews the results of toxicity studies in laboratory animals and in vitro test systems. While both the liver and the kidneys are target organs, the most universally observed toxic effect is damage to the liver. Studies indicate that cytotoxicity followed by cell proliferation is the most important cause for the development of liver and kidney tumours following experimental exposure to chloroform. The severity of toxic effects was observed to vary according to species, vehicle, and route of administration. A chapter on health effects in humans notes disturbances in respiratory and cardiovascu-lar functions observed following short-term exposure. As in animals, liver and kidney damage was the most frequently reported adverse effect of long-term exposure. [+]Data were judged inadequate to implicate chloroform exposure via drinking-water as a cause of human cancer. Concerning effects on the environment, the report concludes that the low levels of chloroform in surface water should not pose a hazard to aquatic organisms. ". produced with the usual conciseness and readability. " - International Journal of Environmental Studies.
Authors
- Committee on Evaluation of Chemical Events at Army Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
- National Research Council
Dewey code: 624
List Price: $33.50
Price: $33.50
Review Evaluation of Chemical Events at Army Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities / National Academies Press:
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Hydrogen Sulfide (Environmental Health Criteria), Radiation Source Use and Replacement: Abbreviated Version, Users' Guide to the National Electrical Code : Understanding & Applying the NEC 2008, Dow's Chemical Exposure Index Guide, Unlikely Victory: How General Electric Succeeded in the Chemical Industry, The Fire Inspector's Guide to Codes, Forms, and Complaints, RELEASE: A Model with Data to Predict Aerosol Rainout in Accidental Releases (Ccps Concept Book), ISO 14001 Implementation Manual, Hotel Fire Safety - IChemE, ISO 9000 Quality Systems Handbook (4th Edition), Principles for Evaluating Health Risks in Children Associated With Exposure to Chemicals (Environmental Health Criteria) (Environmental Health Criteria Series), Accident and Emergency Management, Analyses of Hazardous Substances in Biological Materials, Volume 7, Hazards of Nitrogen and Catalyst Handling (BP Process Safety), Lessons Learned from Accidental Exposures in Radiotherapy (Safety Report Ser. 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