chemical hazard Articles
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Approaches to the risk assessment and control of major industrial chemical and related hazards in the United Kingdom
This paper outlines the role and use in the UK of hazard and risk assessment in the control and management of risks from major chemical industrial and other related hazards.Keywords: hazard analysis, major hazards, risk assessment, transportation, United Kingdom, UK, chemical ...
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New Chemical hazards in the workplace
In the days when Industrial Hygiene became a recognized scientific discipline, smoke stacks belched black smoke in River Rouge, MI and Pittsburgh, PA. Men worked in clouds of coal and asbestos dust and labor was hard, physical and usually dangerous. Personal protective equipment was rare; its use, even rarer and its protective effect marginal. Today, the face of manufacturing has changed ...
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An open framework for automated chemical hazard assessment based on GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals: A proof of concept
GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals is a framework for comparative chemical hazard assessment. It is the first transparent, open and publicly accessible framework of its kind, allowing manufacturers and governmental agencies to make informed decisions about the chemicals and substances used in consumer products and buildings. In the GreenScreen benchmarking process, chemical hazards are assessed ...
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My Voice - how you can demand better protection of human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals
INTRODUCTION A new start for controlling chemicals are you concerned about hazardous chemicals in the environment, and how they may be affecting your health? Did you know that a new EU law on how chemicals are regulated has come into force? Known as reach, this law took nearly nine years to develop, and provoked ‘the fiercest lobbying battle in EU history’ mainly between the chemical industry ...
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PetroGuard Suitability for Flammable Solvents & Hazardous Chemicals - Case Study
Request the document that gives definitive information about various chemicals and their compatibility with PetroGuard with flammable solvents & hazardous ...
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The applicability of chemical alternatives assessment for engineered nanomaterials
The use of alternatives assessment to substitute hazardous chemicals with inherently safer options is gaining momentum worldwide as a legislative and corporate strategy to minimize consumer, occupational, and environmental risks. Engineered nanomaterials represent an interesting case for alternatives assessment approaches as they can be considered both emerging “chemicals” of concern, as well ...
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Development of algal interspecies correlation estimation (ICE) models for chemical hazard assessment
Web‐ICE (Web‐based Interspecies Correlation Estimation) is an application developed to predict the acute toxicity of a chemical from one species to another taxon. ICE models use the acute toxicity value for a surrogate species to predict effect values for other species, thus potentially filling in data gaps for a variety of environmental assessment purposes. Web‐ICE has historically been ...
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OSHA gives Enforcement Update on HCS 2012
At the Fall meeting of the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC) held on September 30, 2014 Mr. Sven Rundman with the Directorate of Enforcement Programs for OSHA gave an Enforcement Overview of the Hazard Communication Standard 2012 (HCS 2012). He began by breaking down the number of OSHA inspections conducted from December 1, 2013 through September 1, 2014. This period marks the ...
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The Volatile Issue of Reactive Chemicals
Regulation of “reactive” chemicals -- chemicals that become unstable under certain conditions -- has been the subject of debate for years. Underlying the debate, and perhaps fueling it, is the fact that reactive chemicals are involved in many accidents. According to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board’s (CSB’s) 2002 report addressing reactive chemicals, entitled “Hazard ...
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PCB Decontamination Methods for Achieving TSCA Compliance During Facility Decommissioning Projects
ABSTRACT Facility decommissioning projects often include an environmental component that involves the identification of chemicals and hazardous building materials used at the site, decontamination or abatement of those materials, and proper disposal. PCBs are one chemical hazard that may need to be addressed during the dismantling of older industrial facilities. The continued use and ...
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Risk–based land use planning around hazardous chemical installations
This paper presents a framework for supporting land use planning decisions around hazardous chemical facilities taking risk into consideration. The proposed methodology contains all the steps that a planner needs to fully define the problem based on multi–criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and incorporating the needs of major local stakeholders. The decision is supported by the generation of the ...
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Karin Baron Shares Asian Market Regulation Information at Exporting Chemicals and Hazardous Material
On February 23, 2017, Karin Baron, MSPH, Senior Regulatory Consultant with Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) and The Acta Group (Acta®), presented “South Korean and China Regulations and Other Asian Market Regulations & Opportunities” at Exporting Chemicals and Hazardous Materials: Major Global Markets Regulatory Compliance. Ms. Baron’s presentation covered ...
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Toxic Chemicals in Toys and Children’s products: Limitations of Current Responses and Recommendations for Government and Industry
The company World Environmental Regulatory Compliance Solutions (The WERCS) has developed a tool called the GreenWERCS Chemical Screening Tool that evaluates chemical products such as paints and cleaning products for human and environmental health risks and scores products on this basis. The WERCS keeps formulation data confidential but provides retailers with information on chemical hazards. In ...
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Policy by analogy: precautionary principle, science and polybrominated diphenyl ethers
Through the acquisition of scientific data, knowledge is gained about the environmental fate and human exposure of chemical substances. From this knowledge, the risk of using chemicals can be assessed. As a means of facilitating the regulatory process, risk assessments can also compare the substance under investigation to other substances that display similar behaviour or structure, especially ...
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Drilling down into chemical hazards in the mining industry
Industries worldwide rely on the steady supply of minerals and metals harvested by the mining industry such as coal, iron ore, bauxite, and potash. Though the final products of mining may not be hazardous, there are many chemical risks that mine workers are exposed to daily. Mineral production involves a series of physical and chemical processes. These occur throughout the excavation of ore ...
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7 Tips for Chemical Inventory Management
Regulations require all manufacturers and suppliers of hazardous chemical products to provide SDS'. Besides products and substances which are classified as hazardous, the legislation also considers chemicals with occupational exposure limits as hazardous. Chemical inventory should include all of the products you use that meet these criteria. The purpose of the inventory is to help staff and ...
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Hazard Standards
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed on Sept. 30, 2009, to align the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) with provisions of the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). The HCS requires chemical manufacturers and importers to evaluate chemical hazards and provide information to subsequent users. The standard now ...
By Acta Group
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Assessment and management of environmental risks from industries at Trans-Thane Creek, Bombay
This paper gives an overview of the risk assessment study carried out as part of the Inter-Agency Project on Assessment and Management of risks from industries in the Trans-Thane Creek area near Bombay. The scope of the study includes identification of hazardous chemicals in the industrial area, reviewing the possible sources of release of the chemicals, evaluating probable reasons for such ...
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The way forward - Case Study
Vessel owners continue to seek ways to reduce operational and maintenance costs in an era of variable demand and increased environmental regulations Oil analysis is a critical shipboard tool for the early detection of problems that have the potential to damage vital systems and for enabling the efficient allocation of maintenance resources. Current onboard tests typically duplicate lab-based ...
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FAST-ACT Chemical hazard containment and neutralization system - Technical Report
ABSTRACT FAST-ACT is a proprietary formulation of non-toxic high-performance specialty materials effective at neutralizing a wide range of toxic chemicals with the added capability to destroy chemical warfare agents. The FAST-ACT formulation is non-flammable, non-corrosive, and significantly reduces both liquid and vapor hazards. Since the dry powder neutralizes threats upon contact, on-site ...
By FAST-ACT
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