Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-03-23
Dewey code: 615.9003
List Price: $129.95
Price: $48.28
Review Lewis' Dictionary of Toxicology / Informa HealthCare:This reference contains a staggering number of well-researched and commonly used terms from toxicology and related fields. Scientists from virtually every environmentally oriented field, from chemistry to nursing to agriculture, will find what they need in this dictionary. It features vast coverage of terms, from chemical names and pathogenic terms to official abbreviations, environmental topics, and biological definitions. Each entry categorizes all major definitions and usage, with extensive cross-references for synonyms and related entries. Including nearly every major technical toxicological term as applied to both human and environmental studies, Lewis' Dictionary of Toxicology is broader and more comprehensive than any other to date. It is based on terms found in more than 600 journals, 15,000 reprints of scientific papers, and numerous leading reference sources.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1997
Review Process safety management / Southwestern Books:
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2007-12-04
Dewey code: 628.92
List Price: $65.95
Price: $38.00
Review Hazardous Materials Incidents, Third Edition / Delmar Cengage Learning:Keeping hazardous materials responders up-to-date with national concerns and emerging technologies, Hazardous Materials Incidents, 3E continues to provide practical knowledge of how to effectively and safely respond to hazardous materials incidents. This book has been updated to cover the competencies of the 2008 Edition of NFPA 472 Standard including comprehensive coverage of Awareness, Operations and Ops + levels. Technical information is translated through a reader-friendly straight-forward approach, making this an essential manual for risk based response training.
Authors
- International Atomic Energy Agency
Dewey code: 363
List Price: $24.50
Price: $24.49
Review Remediation Process for Areas Affected by Past Activities and Accidents (Safety Standards Series) / Intl Atomic Energy Agency:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1990-06-12
Dewey code: 616.994071
List Price: $195.95
Price: $151.58
Review Cancer Risk Assessment (Occupational Safety and Health) / CRC:Based on the National Academy of Sciences approach to quantitative risk assessment. Emphasizes how an accurate assessment of cancer risk must draw on a wide range of disciplines, such as biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and the social sciences. Provides tables of Poisson confidence limit fa.
Authors
- Daniel J. Davis
- Julie A. Davis
- Grant T. Christianson
Publication date: 1993-01
Dewey code: 628.92
Price: $134.95
Review Firefighter's Hazardous Materials Reference Book and Index / Van Nostrand Reinhold:Fire suppression data on more than 800 hazardous chemicals is provided here in a format specially designed for ease of use in emergency situations. The Second Edition features 38 new chemicals, additional synonyms, an updated glossary, a new section on label data, new information on shipping container hazards, and CAS numbers for all chemicals.
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2005-12-30
Dewey code: 540
List Price: $95.00
Price: $23.75
Review Globally Harmonized Sytems of Classification And Labelling of Chemicals (Ghs) / United Nations Pubns:
Publication date: 2000-09-11
Dewey code: 363.11092
List Price: $34.50
Price: $34.50
Review Trevor Kletz: By Accident...a Life Preventing Them in Industry - IChemE / PFV Publications:Trevor Kletz is widely recognized as an outstanding communicator on safety in the process industries. His books, articles and presentations have taken his fame around the world. In this book he tells - in his inimitable prose - how this happened, and what challenges a young scientist or engineer starting out in industry might expect to find.
Authors
- International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
- World Health Organisation
Publication date: 1992-10-30
Dewey code: 542.0289
Price: $47.95
Review Chemical Safety Matters / Cambridge University Press:
Publication date: 1996-12-15
Dewey code: 660.0684
List Price: $31.95
Price: $23.93
Review Contractor and Client Relations to Assure Process Safety (Center for Chemical Process Safety (Ccps).) / Wiley-AIChE:Written and edited by engineering contractors and industry project/maintenance managers as an easy-to-use guide for other industry professionals, this book identifies important process safety issues in the contractor-client relationship,which are not addressed by other groups and publications. While the issues may arise at any point in the life cycle of a plant, they should be resolved early in the relationship to permit a clearer focus on process safety issues. Topics covered are a general discussion of contractor safety programs; EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractual bases and work division as they address regulatory PSM issues; subcontractor relationships; and managing contractor-client risks.
Creator: Allan Williams
Publication date: 1997-01
Dewey code: 541
List Price: $26.27
Price: $22.79
Review Topics in Environmental and Safety Aspects of Combustion Technology / Whittles Publishing:
Creator: Joseph Cramer
Publication date: 1991-08
Dewey code: 660.2804
Price: $87.95
Review Risk Assessment and Risk Management for the Chemical Process Industry: Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation / Van Nostrand Reinhold Company:For anyone responsible for safety in chemical plants, Risk Assessment and Risk Management for the Chemical Process Industry is an essential source on minimizing the dangers of toxic incidents and accidents. You're shown how to calculate potential consequences of identified hazards, quantify the likelihood of these events, and combine equipment failure rate data and human reliability analysis with hazard assessment. This guide also shows how to integrate hazard identification, risk assessment, consequence analysis, and risk mitigation into a formalized program for handling hazardous chemicals.
Edition: 4
Publication date: 2000-03-24
Dewey code: 604.703
List Price: $58.50
Price: $44.28
Review Rapid Guide to Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace / Wiley-Interscience:Get fast, ready access to essential information on the dangerous properties of industrial materials in the millennium workplace. This handy, compact, easy-to-use pocket guide to the most frequently encountered hazardous materials is now significantly updated and revised, providing safety managers and workers with critical data and safety profiles for more than 750 chemicals in the millennium workplace. Each entry is carefully selected for its dangerous properties, reflecting current scientific findings as well as regulatory standards and safety and control recommendations. Clear, accurate descriptions for each substance let you assess its health and safety hazards quickly and easily. Rapid Guide to Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace, Fourth Edition includes: * The latest OSHA regulations and other exposure standards * Additional carcinogens and toxicity data * Updated ACGIH threshold limit values (TLVs) * Comprehensive workplace air-level guidelines from OSHA, ACGIH, and DFG * DOT guidelines and labeling requirements for U. S. and international shipments * Clear and concise Safety Profiles summarizing hazards for each entry * Physical descriptions, including physical and flammability properties * Extensive indexes for CAS numbers, DOT numbers, and synonyms * Cross-references to entries in the acclaimed Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, 10th Edition.
Authors
- Kazuhiko Suzuki
- Hossam A. Gabbar
Publication date: 2005-04-29
Dewey code: 658.382011
List Price: $149.00
Price: $24.50
Review The Design of a Practical Enterprise Safety Management System / Springer:This book presents design guidelines and implementation approaches for enterprise safety management system as integrated within enterprise integrated systems. It shows new model-based safety management where process design automation is integrated with enterprise business functions and components. It proposes new system engineering approach addressed to new generation chemical industry. It will help both the undergraduate and professional readers to build basic knowledge about issues and problems of designing practical enterprise safety management system, while presenting in clear way, the system and information engineering practices to design enterprise integrated solution.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1990-07-05
Dewey code: 658.408
List Price: $195.95
Price: $56.88
Review Industry Risk Communication ManualImproving Dialogue with Communities / CRC:This practical manual is written in a clear, concise manner and addresses many unanswered questions about communication and the community. The book is special in that it focuses on the "hows" rather than the "whys. " It reveals how to be a better communicator, how to explain technical information in lay terms, and how to find ways to reach out to the community. Industry Risk Communication Manual provides you ready access to current thinking and practice on environmental risk communication. This manual will allow you to think through risk communication problems and plan risk communication strategies. It also will provide you with examples and instant experience from over 30 experts who have found themselves in similar situations. Developed by one of the leading programs on risk communication, this book provides easy-to-follow guidelines, checklists, and examples for plant managers, public information specialists, technical staff, executives, and managers who need to deal with the public regarding how their company's business relates to environmental risk issues.
Creator: W. Clark Cooper
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1990-06-14
Dewey code: 613.6
List Price: $495.00
Price: $94.99
Review Health and Safety Beyond the Workplace / Wiley-Interscience:In-Plant Practices for Job Related Health Hazards Control Volume 1: Production Processes Volume 2: Engineering Aspects Edited by Lester V. Cralley and Lewis J. CralleyVol. 1: 1989(0 471-61975-2)938 pp. Vol. 2: 1989(0 471-50121-2)578 pp. 2-Vol. Set: 1989(0 471-51097-1)Patty’s Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology Volume 1: General Principles Volumes 2A, 2B & 2C: Toxicology Edited by George D. Clayton and Florence E. Clayton Volume 3A: Theory and Rationale of Industrial Hygiene Practice: The Work Environment Volume 3B: Theory and Rationale of Industrial Hygiene Practice: Biological Responses Edited by Lewis J. [+]Cralley and Lester V. CralleyVol. 1:1978(0 471-16046-6)1,466pp. Vol. 2A:1981(0 471-16042-3)1,420 pp. Vol. 2B:1981(0 471-07943-X)937 pp. Vol. 2C:1982(0 471-09258-4)1,296 pp. Vol. 3A:1985(0 471-86137-5)822 pp. Vol. 3B:1985(0 471-82333-3)753 pp.
Publication date: 1988-01-01
Dewey code: 660
List Price: $23.00
Price: $23.00
Review Ammonia Toxicity Monograph (Major Hazards Monograph Series) - IChemE (Major Hazards Monograph Series) / Institution of Chemical Engineers:A survey of research into this highly toxic gas.
Publication date: 1993-12-02
Dewey code: 620
List Price: $115.00
Price: $233.99
Review Safety and Health for Engineers (Industrial Health & Safety) / Wiley:Safety and Health for Engineers Roger L. Brauer Today’s engineer faces a moral and legal responsibility to build safety into products and environments. Today’s engineer also works in an economic system that requires enterprises to be competitive. Here’s a guide to help engineers reconcile these safety and economic concerns, using the latest cost-effective methods of ensuring safety in all facets of their work. Safety and Health for Engineers addresses the fundamentals of safety, the legal aspects, hazard recognition, the human element of safety, and techniques for managing safety in engineering decisions. The book provides you with a broad range of topics and examples, as well as detailed references to information and standards. Here you’ll find in-depth coverage of the many aspects of achieving safety through engineering-the duties and legal responsibilities for which engineers are accountablean exploration of all types of hazards, and engineering controls for themthe latest safety regulations, and agencies responsible for their enforcementan enlightening discussion of human behavior, capabilities, and limitationsinstruction on how to analyze equipment and processes, identify hazards, and present the need for controls to managers-plus the latest legal considerations, new risk analysis methods, system safety and decision-making tools, and today’s concepts and methods in ergonomic design. Abundant reference figures and tables, and carefully crafted review questions and exercises are also presented by this leading reference. For engineers, plant managers, safety professionals, and others, the absence of academic instruction in safety engineering is now no excuse for simply living with the risks involved in engineering practice. With Safety and Health for Engineers, you’ll do a better job providing society with technological solutions that improve lives, are legally prudent, and are also safe.
Authors
- Armando S. Bevelacqua
- Richard H. Stilp
Publication date: 2006-11-09
Dewey code: 604.7
List Price: $49.95
Price: $24.99
Review Hazardous Materials Field Guide / Delmar Cengage Learning:Thoroughly updated for the second edition, the Hazardous Materials Field Guide provides critical information for emergency responders on the scene of an incident. Whether the incident involves hazardous materials, a clandestine laboratory, terrorism or a confined space operation, this user-friendly resource includes information that is consistent with the mission of all agencies. In addition, new information on NIMS, the movement to an international placard system, as well as coverage of bioterrorism materials keeps the guide current with the considerations facing emergency responders today. Flow charts verify critical procedure considerations that must be managed immediately, then set the stage for support response when an incident requires interagency cooperation. Easy to reference, this guide allows rapid identification of placards, labels, silhouettes, and common commodities that move on roadways and railways. Medical considerations are described throughout the text, identifying potential needs of an affected community.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-01-02
Dewey code: 616
List Price: $32.95
Price: $23.24
Review Health Safety and Risk: Looking After Each Other at School and in the World of Work / Royal Society of Chemistry:Young people today grow up in a world where the media bombard them with information about the effect of various factors on their health, the safety of everything from household items to nuclear waste, and the risks associated with them. These ideas of health, safety and risk are often poorly understood. Health, Safety and Risk has been produced in order to help teachers bring about a better understanding of these concepts in their students and so that, as young people growing up in a scientific and technological society, they can be properly aware of the risks associated with the world in which they live, and of attempts to minimise them. This resource includes a range of activities for 11-19 year old students designed to promote an understanding of health, safety and risk within the world of school and work. It contains teachers' notes, background information, photocopiable student worksheets and answers.
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