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Safety First: Hazard Communications for Water and Wastewater Utilities DVD

In 2005 the Environmental Protection Agency promulgated that all Hazard Communication materials must be in compliance with OSHA standard for Globally Harmonized System for Hazard Communication (HCS) by the end of 2013.This video informs water and wastewater professionals the correct methodologies required for identifying and labeling ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Managing Hazardous Materials

REVISED VERSION published July 2009.Whether you are studying for the IHMM exam or looking for a professional reference, Managing Hazardous Materials is our comprehensive text covering the breadth and unity of the hazmat field. Managing Hazardous Materials was developed to reflect the core knowledge that is required for practice in this field. ...

By Institute of Hazardous Materials Management (IHMM)

Transportation of Hazardous Materials

This volume brings together leaders from industry and government, as well as leading scholars from economics, law, engineering, psychology, and sociology who have done research on the problems associated with the transportation of hazardous materials and wastes (hazmats) to produce a set of integrated insights and understandings of the ...

By Springer

Principles of Hazardous Materials Management, Second Edition

A comprehensive overview of the field of hazardous materials management, this second edition features updated information on toxic and hazardous substance and waste; sources, storage, and treatment; transportation; regulatory jurisdictions; emergency response planning; as well as industrial hygiene and worker safety. As in the best-selling first ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

A Guide to the Safe Handling of Hazardous Materials Accidents

In emergency situations the hazard classification system of the Department of Transportation is useful, familiar, and available on the scene. This document is arranged by Department of Transportation Hazard Class and shipment volume. Within some classes, a distinction is made between bulk and package shipments. Bulk shipments are those that equal ...

By ASTM International

Hazardous Materials Management: Compliance with the DOT Requirements

This manual takes you through every step in the transport of hazardous materials: determining what is a hazardous material; selecting the proper shipping name, package, label, and placard; completing shipping papers; loading and stowing; incident response; and hazmat security requirements. Also included are details on on exceptions for limited ...

By Environmental Resource Center

Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders, Second Edition

The second edition of a bestseller, Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders continues to provide the fundamentals of 'street chemistry' required by emergency response personnel. The information presented will assist you in responding to specific chemical spills, including identifying the exact chemicals involved and their individual ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Quantitative Risk Assessment of Hazardous Materials Transport Systems

This volume highlights the main procedures for assessing the regional risks resulting from dangerous goods storage, and transportation by means of different systems (i.e., road, rail, ship, and pipeline). The information in the book is based on a wide range of references and studies. The main procedural steps involved in quantitative risk ...

By Springer

The Complete Guide to Hazardous Materials Enforcement and Liability: California

Designed with compliance and enforcement in mind, The Complete Guide to Hazardous Materials Enforcement and Liability: California presents details of the many toxics requirements in effect in California today. Uncover the implications of these requirements for hazardous material storage and handling, air and water quality, hazardous waste ...

By Specialty Technical Publishers (STP)

A Guide to the Safe Handling of Hazardous Materials Accidents: 2nd Edition

Revision of a popular ASTM manual (STP 825) provides information essential to the training of on-scene emergency responders. Arranged by Department of Transportation Hazard Class and shipment volume, and includes terms used to describe classes or materials, and incident control tactics. Flow charts take the on-scene emergency responder through a ...

By ASTM International

Working Around Hazardous Materials On The Waterfront: Every Choice Counts (Handbook)

Ship your way to safety. HazMat can sink your operations so you must set up safety measures to stay afloat. Contain Hazmats with this handbook, part of an eight-program series – On The Waterfront: Every Choice Counts – that meets OSHA standards. It identifies various hazmat categories, from explosives and gases to flammables and ...

By Coastal Training Technologies (part of Dupont Sustainable Solutions)

Working Around Hazardous Materials On The Waterfront: Every Choice Counts (DVD)

Ship your way to safety. HazMat can sink your operations so you must set up safety measures to stay afloat. Contain Hazmats with this course, part of an eight-program series – On The Waterfront: Every Choice Counts – that meets OSHA standards. It identifies various hazmat categories, from explosives and gases to flammables and ...

By Coastal Training Technologies (part of Dupont Sustainable Solutions)

Working Around Hazardous Materials On The Waterfront: Every Choice Counts (Video)

Ship your way to safety. HazMat can sink your operations so you must set up safety measures to stay afloat. Contain Hazmats with this course, part of an eight-program series – On The Waterfront: Every Choice Counts – that meets OSHA standards. It identifies various hazmat categories, from explosives and gases to flammables and ...

By Coastal Training Technologies (part of Dupont Sustainable Solutions)

Tracking and Predicting the Atmospheric Dispersion of Hazardous Material Releases: Implications for Homeland Security

For many years, communities have prepared themselves to deal with accidental atmospheric releases from industrial sites, energy facilities, and vehicles transporting hazardous materials. Today, these communities must also worry about the terrorist threat of the intentional use of chemical, biological, and nuclear (C/B/N) agents. Because of this ...

By The National Academies Press (NAP)

Physical Hazards of the Workplace

The recognition and control of hazards in the work environment is the cornerstone of every company´s safety and health plan. There are dangers in every workplace, especially those devoted to technology, machinery, and potentially hazardous material. Employers and their management teams must understand the regulations that provide for facility ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Hazard Communication (Poster)

Reinforce HAZCOM standards with this poster.Keep your employees on the road to safety with this poster. It outlines OSHA’s Hazard Communication standard and reminds employees to read warning labels and use Material Safety Data Sheets. The poster is printed in English on one side and Spanish on the other.Posters are 18' x 24' laminated color. A ...

By Coastal Training Technologies (part of Dupont Sustainable Solutions)

Emergency Characterization of Unknown Materials

Deliberately, accidentally, or consequentially, first responders and waste site workers handle unknown substances of varying degrees of danger every day. Unidentified chemicals involved with clandestine production of WMD agents or drugs, explosive materials, unlabeled waste, and forensic samples all pose a threat to the worker and those they ...

By Taylor & Francis (USA)

Industrial Hazards and Plant Safety

Here is a new and analytical approach to chemical plant safety-encompassing design, construction, and operation to reduce the likelihood of hazardous incidents as well as actions to mitigate their consequences should they still occur. The most significant safety issues are addressed both from the viewpoint of the fundamental phenomena and the ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Mercury Hazards to Living Organisms

Complex and ever changing in its forms and functions, the element mercury follows a convoluted course through the environment and up the food chain. The process is complicated further by the fact that the difference between tolerable natural background levels and harmful effects in the environment is exceptionally small and still not completely ...

By Taylor & Francis (USA)

Hazardous Solid Waste Testing

The first in a series of publications provides a basis for new methodology in the testing of industrial solid wastes. This publication is one of the first technical testing manuals for identifying and characterizing hazardous solid wastes in terms of disposal options. The book is divided into five areas: • Laboratory Extractions and Leaching ...

By ASTM International

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