hazardous chemical Articles
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The Use of Third-Party Review to Reduce Health and Environmental Hazards from Surfactants and Cleaning Products in the Janitorial Industry
The demand for environmentally preferable products is increasing in the area of Institutional and Industrial (I&I) cleaners. The GreenBlue Institute (GreenBlue) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S. EPA’s) Design for Environment (DfE) launched two programs to review surfactant ingredients and final cleaning products, with the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) conducting third-party ...
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A Guide on International Chemical Conventions
There are many international chemical conventions restricting or even banning the production, use and trade of certain hazardous chemicals for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment. We have prepared a guide on major international chemical conventions with a focus on their aims, controlled substance list, control measures and their impacts. Note: You do not need to read all ...
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Study on Hazardous Household Waste with a main Emphasis on Hazardous Chemicals
Introduction The aim of this study is to evaluate national experiences of the management of hazardous products likely to become hazardous household waste (HHW), and to make proposals for strategies for the appropriate management of such products within a lifecycle perspective. The study covers the fifteen Member States and two Accession Countries, namely Hungary and Romania. The data available ...
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Handling hazardous waste safely: More transparency in green production - Case Study
Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) processes and tasks are becoming increasingly complex. With the changes to the German energy law taking effect, companies are facing increased obligations to produce evidence and documentation. ARBURG, a mechanical engineering company, was looking for a solution to allow it to process the rising volume of data more quickly, as well as to consistently ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Sustainable environmental management in the aluminum industry - Case Study
According to the German Aluminum Industry Trade Association (GDA: Gesamtverband der Aluminiumindustrie), more than 600 companies and 74,000 employees are active in the German aluminum industry. As manufacturers of high-quality aluminum profiles, system components and slugs, Aluminium-Werke Wutöschingen is committed to the careful use of resources. The company uses Quentic, the web-based ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Are mining waste disasters inevitable?
On 5 November 2015 the dam of an iron ore tailings management facility in Bento Rodrigues, Brazil, suffered a catastrophic failure and flooded the area. The immediate consequences were dire: the accident killed at least 11 people, injured over a dozen more and left more than 500 people homeless. However, this is just the start: the environmental impact of the Bento Rodrigues dam disaster, with ...
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Health Hazards at Construction Sites
When we think of construction sites, especially those involving infrastructures like bridges, tunnels, and highways, we usually picture heavy equipment like bulldozers, excavators, steamrollers and heavy-duty dump trucks. These visible signs of construction activity tend to make us think more about safety problems than of health hazards. But the reality is that there can be just as many, if not ...
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Overview of Fluidscan Handheld Infrared Oil Analyzer
Oil analysis is a critical predictive maintenance technology. Service or reliability profes-sionals, whether managing a truck or locomotive fleet, a marine vessel or fixed assets in an industrial plant, rely on oil analysis information to schedule maintenance actions. The need to continuously improve uptime and reduce maintenance costs demands in situ oil analysis results for better ...
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Electronic Waste: The Rich Resource in the Urban Mine
Forgetting your mobile phone can be a real pain, playing on your mind during the day. Then as you think you can feel your phone vibrating in your pocket and you come to realise how dependent we are on our gadgets. Electrical equipment has changed our lives completely and we rely on phones, microwaves, TVs, kettles, computers to keep us informed, entertained and even alive. It is hard to imagine ...
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Setting the standards for headspace sampling by PID
Summary The responsiveness of PIDs to virtually all VOCs has seen them become the accepted tool for initial site entry assessment, ensuring optimal detection of unknown and often toxic or hazardous chemicals found at hazardous waste sites and chemical emergencies. The speed and accuracy of modern PID equipment means that many worker and community safety concerns during initial and ongoing ...
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Setting the standards for headspace sampling by PID
The responsiveness of PIDs to virtually all VOCs has seen them become the accepted tool for initial site entry assessment, ensuring optimal detection of unknown and often toxic or hazardous chemicals found at hazardous waste sites and chemical emergencies. The speed and accuracy of modern PID equipment means that many worker and community safety concerns during initial and ongoing operations can ...
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Why is Medical Waste Management So Important?
The term “medical waste” refers to hazardous material generated from healthcare activities. It needs to be carefully managed to prevent it from posing a threat to public health and/or the environment. This means that any business, organisation, or individual involved with delivering healthcare needs to take medical waste management very seriously. To explain further, Sarah Vernau, ...
By Flame UK
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Site Vulnerability Assessments for Facilities That Use, Store, or Transport Chemicals
In response to pressing issues facing the new Department of Homeland Security, over 15,000 chemical and industrial plants may have to evaluate their vulnerability to terrorist attack and improve countermeasures at their facilities. Federal lawmakers are considering two bills requiring facilities to submit site security plans: the Chemical Security Act (Senate Bill S. 157, reintroduced in January, ...
By AECOM
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Managing compliance: Going beyond ‘Be Prepared’
The recent earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan have prompted companies around the globe to re-examine their emergency response strategies. While some companies have comprehensive emergency response strategies in place, others just now are taking the steps necessary to review possible threats, analyze potential impacts and create expanded versions of their existing plans. If a company ...
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A Guide To Laboratory Etiquette
Working in a laboratory is important and essential work. However, it can also be dangerous if you don’t follow proper lab etiquette. Labs are meant to be productive spaces for discovery, education, development, and collaboration. It is not only a requirement of an employer to provide a safe and healthy work environment, but also of each employee to adhere to the proper rules and practices ...
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Cost reduction and operating results of RO-EDI
Electrodeionization (EDI) uses electrical current, in lieu of acid and caustic chemicals, to regenerate cation and anion resin. Reverse osmosis/EDI systems are now widely used to replace conventional mixed-bed ion-exchange (IX) technology in a broad range of applications. Proven effective at high flowrates, EDI has in recent years been incorporated in water treatment plants around the world, ...
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General Environmental Guidelines Industry - Pollution Prevention Guidelines
Introduction Pollution Prevention Guidelines to provide technical advice and guidance to staff and consultants involved in pollution-related projects. The guidelines represent state-of-the-art thinking on how to reduce pollution emissions from the production process. In many cases, the guidelines provide numerical targets for reducing pollution, as well as maximum emissions ...
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Profitability through improved work environment and sustainability
FluidWorker 100 offers a new method for the machine industry to improve work environment and profitability, in applications with process fluids used for metalworking, quenching and washing. The message around the new UV-based technology naturally focus on the ability to avoid exposure to harmful biocides. The financial implications are not as obvious, and are not always thoroughly analyzed and ...
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Rapid analysis of risk assessment using developed simulation of chemical industrial accidents software package
The environmental consequences are defined as consequences of accidental release of hazardous substances to the natural environment. This release can lead to many hazards depending on the material stored. The consequences of these hazards to the environment are widespread and have significant importance to human communities living in the surroundings. The mathematical models are extremely useful ...
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India: An emerging morgue for e-Products
India is a preferred destination for IT manufacturers all over the world. High percentage of literacy rate, improving lifestyle of the people and their economic standard are the attracting factors for the global IT players. The huge market for IT products is also luring manufacturers day by day. People’s passion for having the latest technologies is also equally attractive. Recycling and going ...
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