The Comprehensive Handbook of Hazardous Materials: Regulations, handling, monitoring, and safety

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.

Features

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