This classic reference offers guidance on developing flexible new plansfor analyzing the physical, managerial, and behavioral aspects of your existing safety program.

The Third Edition of the CRC Handbook of Laboratory Safety builds on the strength of its earlier editions, but takes some new directions which make it an especially practical and useful reference tool. This edition brings managers and laboratory personnel up-to-date on effective programs designed to meet the needs of these new regulatory standards. Also, regulations in areas outside the immediate operations of the laboratory are considered. Subjects such as AIDS, control of laboratory infections, recombinant DNA, carcinogenic effects, teratogenic effects, and medical surveillance programs are covered

This book looks at the key factors in achieving a high standard of safe operations. The book considers hazards and risk levels, safe systems at work, occupational health hazards, safety audits, emergency programs, safety management sytems, and more. Illustrated with check lists and practical charts.

Detailing the methods pharmaceutical companies employ to determine the safety profile of their drugs, this comprehensive, single-source reference surveys statistical procedures currently being used or developed to analyze, display, and compare the massive amounts of laboratory data collected from controlled clinical trials

In the US, UK and Europe there is in excess of one notifiable dust or electrostatic explosion every day of the year. This clearly makes the hazards associated with the handling of materials subject to either cause or react to electrostatic discharge of vital importance to anyone associated with their handling or industrial bulk use. This book will provide a comprehensive guide to the dangers of static electricity and how to avoid them. It will prove invaluable to safety managers and professionals, as well as all personnel involved in the activities concerned, in the chemical, agricultural, pharmaceutical and petrochemical process industries.

The first and only book that can help you create a preventive risk management program specifically designed for firefighters and other emergency responders. This step-by step book discusses the practical meaning of the components that constitute a total risk management plan including: reporting and record keeping, risk evaluation, identification, and control, program monitoring, and establishing program priorities

The field of occupational safety and health combines science, technology, medicine, law, and management. But while most safety professionals have received training or have experience in some of these disciplines, rarely are they experts in all of them. This book covers the basics safety and health professionals need to understand in order to control hazards and losses and protect the health and lives of workers. Comprehensive in scope, it balances the management of safety with the relevant science and practical aspects of complying with regulations. Both basic principles and emerging trends are covered, including industrial hygiene, system safety, psychology and safety, safety management, ergonomics, workers' compensation, accident causation and investigation, training requirements, and more.

Armed with this current information, you can design a laboratory that is efficient, economical, energy-wise and flexible, New to this edition is coverage of two new types of labs-microelectronics labs (with discussion of clean room operations) and printmaking labs. Also new is a section on support services which includes designs for rooms for glassblowing, metal and woodworking and rooms to handle chemical, biological and radiation waste.

Laboratory supervisors and personnel who generate surplus or waste chemicals have an increasing legal responsibility to dispose of these chemicals in a manner which does not create a health hazard or endanger the environment. Since 1981, a grant-funded research group at the University of Alberta has been creating disposal procedures for a wide variety of chemicals. Literature has been collected and the procedures developed and tested in the laboratory. The procedures are designed to enable chemicals to be recycled or disposed of in-house, eliminating the need to incinerate them or take them to a landfill. Disposal methods of heavy metal salts, explosive chemicals such as picric acid, and toxic organic materials are included. The procedures developed are documented in a manner similar to that of the synthetic methods published in Organic Syntheses, so that they can be reproducibly performed by persons with some training in chemistry.

Provides concise and clear explanations and data on properties, exposure limits, flashpoints, monitoring techniques, personal protection and a host of other parameters and requirements relating to compliance with designated safe practice, control of health risks, and limitation of impact on the environment. It will be particularly useful for emergency services personnel, environmental health officers, safety advisors, and waste disposal personnel.

Provides step-by-step guidance for training your facility and on-site commanders under OSHA's HAZWOPER standard. With this new book, emergency responders receive training based on the successful two-day courses presented by the author at professional conferences. HAZWOPER Incident Command explains the Incident Command System (ICS), a hazardous materials management system that can be customized for the unique needs of each facility and each emergency. Incident commanders will also learn how to manage an emergency response team, how to develop facility emergency response plans, and how to develop a facility incident command structure. The only training manual of its kind, HAZWOPER Incident Command also contains practical information on auditing, local and federal emergency response systems, decontamination, spill prevention and control, and the selection of personal protective equipment.

Focusing on people--not physical conditions--as the main cause of on-the-job accidents, this preventive guide shows how to minimize safety risks that are a result of the introduction of new workplace technology

With recent tragedies such as Chernobyl, Bhopal, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill etched vividly in the public psyche, human reliability in high technology systems has come under serious question. Now you have the materials, tools and techniques for evaluating human reliability in engineering design and systems organization-and understanding the profound consequences of planning errors and human actions. Complete with dozens of real-life applications and case studies, the book also contains hard-to-come-by analytical data that enables you to undertake your own risk profile of virtually any high-tech industry!

This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of industrial hygiene from a management perspective. Describes how to coordinate industrial hygiene programs effectively and with maximum cost-efficiency. Covers all aspects of industrial hygiene management, including management and organizational principles, regulatory and legal considerations, program evaluation, recruiting, and budgeting. Contributors are among the most distinguished authorities in the field. The book follows the basic background for the American Academy of Industrial Hygiene certification exam questions as well as questions for a new certifiable specialty in this area.

Written for lab managers and safety officers, this book provides step-by-step guidelines for developing procedures that comply with the new standards for safety regarding occupational exposures to toxic substances. It describes the key components of a safety program and how each of the components fits into the chemical hygiene plan as outlined by OSHA.