Chemical Hazards in Industry

Chemical Hazards in Industry, Royal Society of Chemistry Information Group, Cambridge, 1984 to date (monthly abstracts)... 

Chemical Hazards in Industry. Published monthly by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the bulletin gives information on the hazards caused by chemicals likely to be encountered in the chemical and allied industries, and how they might adversely affect health and safety. 

The Chemical Safety NewsBase corresponds to the printed Chemical Hazards in Industry, Laboratory Hazards Bulletin and Hazards in the Office. About 250 primary journals are scanned. These include both specialist occupational health publications and chemical, biochemical, toxicological, and medical research journals. Items selected include full articles, books, audiovisual material, technical reports, and references to conferences, courses, and forthcoming events. 

Toxicology. The toxicity of ethyl ether is low and its greatest hazards in industry are fire and explosion. The vapor is absorbed almost instandy from the lungs and very prompdy from the intestinal tract. It undergoes no chemical change in the body. Prevention and control of health hazards associated with the handling of ethyl ether depend primarily on prevention of exposure to toxic atmospheric concentrations and scmpulous precautions to prevent explosion and fire. 

D. R. Stull, Linking Thermodynamic and Kinetics to Predict Real Chemical Hazards, in Safety in the Chemical Industry, pp. 106-110. 

D. R. Stull, Linking Thermodynamics and Kinetics to Predict Real Chemical Hazards, in Safety in the Chemical Industry, v. 3, Norman V. Steere, ed. (Easton, PA Division of Chemical Education, American Chemical Society, 1974),... 

This chapter covered only a small proportion of the vast number of chemicals that can be found in the workplace. For more definitive information on a wide variety of toxic substances, the reader is referred to standard references on industrial toxicology. Of these, one of the most useful for a quick summary of toxic effects and management is Chemical Hazards in the Workplace by N. H. Proctor and J. P. Hughes. Definitive reviews of many chemicals are published by the American Industrial Hygiene Association and the National Safety Council among others. Sources are given in Appendix III. 

SME. In this area, France and the UK may have a lot to learn from Sweden s use of policy objectives with respect to promoting a culture of chemical safety in industry and through supply chains. For France, adopting a more hazard-based approach to risk management could limit the occurrence of victim associations . 

The purpose of the RMP is to reduce chemical risk at the local level. This information helps local fire, police, and emergency response personnel (who must prepare for and respond to chemical accidents) and is useful to individuals in understanding the chemical hazards in communities. Ideally, making the RMPs available to the public stimulates communication between industry and the public to improve accident prevention and emergency response practices at the local level. 

The herbicide would be irritant to the skin but potentially lethal if taken by mouth (see pp. 104-6). Both the antifreeze and the screenwash would also be potentially lethal if drunk (see below). All the solvents (white spirit, petrol, and paraffin) would be hazardous if drunk, especially as they could be drawn into the lungs. Cases of children drinking white spirit have occurred, in which the main effect was in the lungs, where the solvent easily spread through the small air spaces and changed the abihty of the lungs to function properly. Creosote is irritating to the skin and can cause acne-hke eruptions with repeated exposure, hke other solvents and chemicals used in industry (see pp. 122-30). 

EPCRA s primary purpose is to inform citizens of chemical hazards in their communities. Sections 311 and 312 of EPCRA require businesses to report the locations and quantities of chemicals stored on-site to State and local governments in order to help communities prepare to respond to chemical spills and similar emergencies. EPCRA Section 313 requires the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the States to annually collect data on releases and transfers of certain toxic chemicals from industrial facilities, and make the data available to the public in the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). 

Holmberg B, Sjostrom B. 1980. Toxicological aspects of chemical hazards in the rubber industry. J Toxicol Environ Health 6 1201-1209. 

Bikos, P.C. and Scarlatos, P. (2003). Practical application of E legislation on chemical hazards in the Hellenic Chemical Industry -results of a pan-hellenic survey, 8 International Symposium ofISSA Research Section, Abstracts, pp260-261, Athens. 

Consequently, the first section of this book contains a comprehensive description of the properties of substances, following the guidelines of the European Union for classifying chemicals as hazardous . In industry, trade and commerce, preparations are generally used much more often than substances hence, the basic rules for classifying preparations are of special importance in everyday life, and not only in the chemical industry and its related divisions. 

Key to the understanding of environmental, health and safety issues in the semiconductor industry i s an understanding ofthe chemicals used in the manufacture and packaging of semiconductors and semiconductor related technologies. Chapters, Chemical Hazards in Semiconductor Operations, co-authored by Tom Hawkinson and Daryl Korpela offers an overview ofthe types of ehemieals used in the semiconductor industry as well as the related processes. 

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