Hazardous and toxic materials : safe handling and disposal - Fawcett, Howard H (New York : Wiley, 1988)
The ABCs of chemical safety ; Cliches ; Effective presentation : the key to successful hazard communication ; Emergency planning and community right-to-know ; Legal, cost/benefit, and ethical aspects ; Fires and explosions / Howard H. Fawcett -- Update : the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976 (PL 94-469) / Henry P. Lau -- Toxicity, or biological action / Howard H. Fawcett -- Long-term toxicity / Elizabeth K. Weisberger -- Dioxin and related substances ; Personal protective equipment ; Respiration : system and protection ; Laboratories-- sources of knowledge and information / Howard H. Fawcett -- The Shad return to the Delaware / Philip J. Wingate -- Hazards of home chemistry / Howard H. Fawcett -- Medical care and surveillance program for hazardous-waste workers / D. J. Kilian, Pamela Harris, and Susan Goddard -- Occupational disease awareness-- the teaching of occupational medicine in British and Irish medical schools / Ralph W. Fawcett -- Superfund / Ronald D. Hill -- Prevention and control of oil and hazardous-material spills / Roy W. Hann, Jr. -- Vapor suppression by aqueous foams / Edward C. Norman -- Innovative on-site treatment/destruction technologies for remediation of contaminated sites / Masood Ghassemi -- Social dimensions of facility siting / Audrey Armour -- What we learned from the Rhine / Howard H. Fawcett -- The design of safe means for transport of dangerous goods : an underdeveloped area? / J. C. Astro and J. van der Schaaf -- Data and training resources / Howard H. Fawcett -- Scenerios of mock trials to train lawyers / James M. Brown -- Extremely hazardous substances and their threshold planning quantities (Section 302 of SARA) -- Acutely toxic chemicals (CEPP) with CAS numbers -- Emergency response commissions in the fifty states -- Chemicals to be reported to state commissions under Section 372.45 of SARA by facilities in standard industrial classification codes 20 through 39 -- Toxic pollutant effluent limitations and standards that use end-of-pipe biological treatment
"A Wiley/Interscience publication."
Revised edition of: Hazardous and toxic materials / Howard H. Fawcett. 1st edition c1984
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Hazardous wastes -- United States -- Safety measures; Poisons -- Safety measures