Chemical Health Safety

Bernadette Spinoy, Sr. VP-Base Chemicals Health, Safety/Environment... 

Journal of Chemical Health Safety. Official publication of the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Health and Safety. Published by Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam. 

Kcl v. R. J., Review of Safety Guidelines for Peroxidizable Organic Chemicals. Chemical Health Safety September/October 1996,28. 

Wildes, S. Methyl soyate a new green alternative solvent. Chemical Health Safety 2002, 9 24-26. 

National Institutes of Health National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Chemical Health Safety Data... 

Bailey, J., Blair, D., Boada-Clista, L., Marsick, D., Quigley, D., Simmons, F., Whyte, H., Management of Time Sensitive Chemicals (I) Misconceptions Leading to Incidents , Chemical Health Safety, Vol. 11, No. 5, pgs. 14-17. 

Clark, Donald E., Peroxide and Peroxide-forming Chemicals , American Chemical Society, Chemical Health Safety, Sept./Oct, 2001, Pgs. 12-21. 

Sources Kelly, Richard J., Chemical Health Safety, American Chemical Society, 1996, Sept, 28-36 Revised 12/97. 

Anastas, N. D. and Warner, J. C., The incorporation of hazard reduction as a chemical design criterion in green chemistry. Journal of Chemical Health ) Safety, (March/April) 9-13, 2005. 

Hendershot, D. C., Inherent safety strategies for process chemistry, Chemical Health ) Safety, 5(4) 18-22, 1995. 

Phifer, R. W. (2007). Security vulnerability analysis for laboratories and small chemical facilities. Journal of Chemical Health Safety, 12-14. 

Kelly, R.J. (1996) Chemical Health Safety, September/October 1996, pp-28 -36. 

Comments This question requires that a student think about and then explain as many of the parameters about the use of a chemical hood as are appropriate to their present experience. A recent article in Chemical Health Safety listed 11 different guidelines dealing with certification, maintenance, and safe operation (4) and further suggestions can be found in other ACS publications (5). It would even be possible to turn this open-ended question into a ww/np/ -answer, multiple-choice, machine scorable question by listing the possible true or false statements the student might make. Then the question would ask students to choose which statements are appropriate guidelines and which are not. 

Exploration activities are potentially damaging to the environment. The cutting down of trees in preparation for an onshore seismic survey may result in severe soil erosion in years to come. Offshore, fragile ecological systems such as reefs can be permanently damaged by spills of crude or mud chemicals. Responsible companies will therefore carry out an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) prior to activity planning and draw up contingency plans should an accident occur. In Section 4.0 a more detailed description of health, safety and environmental considerations will be provided. 

Responsible Care is the incentive sponsored by the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA). Any CMA company must embrace the philosophy of continuous improvements of health, safety, and environmental efforts accompanied by an open communication to the pubHc about products and their production. Thus the total impact of any product on the environment, from the extraction of raw materials, their beneftciation, transportation, production of final product, and disposal of the product at the end of its useful life, must be taken into consideration. 

Chemical Manufacturers Association Code. In 1988, the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) adopted an initiative called Responsible Care A PubHc Commitment (33). Members of the CMA commit themselves, as an obligation of membership, to improving performance in response to pubHc concerns about the impact of chemicals on health, safety, and environmental quaUty. 

The Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) and its members are also concerned about health, safety, and environmental problems. 

CCPS G-38. Guidelines for Integrating Process Safety Management, Environment, Safety, Health, and Quality. American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Center for Chemical Process Safety, New York. 

CIA 1990. A Approach to the Categorization of Process Plant Hazard and Control Building Design. Prepared by Working Group 3 of the Major Hazards Steering Group. Issued by the Safety Committee of the Chemical Industry Safety and Health Council of the Chemical Industries Association, Eondon. 

This guideline describes methods to help the chemical processing industry apply the CCPS chemical process safety concepts to outsourced manufacturing operations, specifically the tolling vendor-client relationship. In addition to the focus on process safety, information and examples provided in this text foster good practices relative to community and worker health, and environmental responsibility. 

Does your company have a documented product stewardship policy, or a health, safety and environmental policy which incorporates the management of chemicals through their total life cycle, thus minimizing adverse effects on human health and well-being and on the environment If so please attach. ... 

Guidelines for Certification to ISO 9001 - Health, Safety and Environmental Management Systems (and BS7750 -Environmental Management Systems) in the Chemical Industry (1992)... 

Visithttp //ntp-support.niehs.nih.gov/Main Pages/Chem-HS.html. This is the site for the National Institute of Environmental Health Science. You will find MSDS-type chemical health and safety information from the National Toxicology Program. Chemical searches can be performed by chemical name, synonym, or CAS (Chemical Abstract Service) number. 

Marsick, Daniel J., Ph.D., "Resources for Right-to-Know Compliance," presented to American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Health and Safety, October 6, 1M7. 

Source C. J. Mumford, PSl Chemical Process Safety, October 1993, Reproduced with permission of the Occcupationai Health and Safety Training Unit, University of Portsmouth, U.K. 

Lutz, W. K. (1995b). Putting Safety into Chemical Plant Design. Chemical Health and Safety 2, 6 (November/December), 12-15. 

Tyler, B. J., A. R. Thomas, P. Doran, andT. R. Greig (1996). A Toxicity Hazard Index. Chemical Health and Safety 3 (January/February), 19-25. 

This is also known as Title III of SARA, EPCRA was enacted by Congress as the mitioiml legislation on community safety. This law was designed to help local communities protect public health, safety, and the environment from chemical hazards. To implement EPCRA, Congress required each state to appoint a State Emergency Response Commission (SERC). The SERCs were... 

A leader in applying PSA to other parts of the chemical process industry has been the AlChf. s Center for Chemical Process Safety. A major difference between PSA for nuclear power and PSA for chemical processing has been the lack of government regulations that require risk analysis for chemical processes. A primary impetuous has been the Occupational Safety and Health Administration s (OSHA) PSM rule that defines the application of PSA to the chemical industry for ihc proteciion of the public and workers. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agcrii, . (EPA) regulates waste disposal. 

A program of research has been supported for several years by the United Kingdom Health Safety Executive (HSE) to address the effects of sociotechnical factors on risk in the CPI. The initial emphasis of this work was to develop a methodology so that chemical process quantitative risk analysis (CPQRA) would take into accotmt the effects of the quality of the management factors of plant being assessed. This work has been described in a series of publications (e.g., Bellamy et al., 1990 Hurst et al., 1991 Geyer et al., 1990 and Hurst et al., 1992). 

HEALTH. SAFETY. AND ACCIDENT MANAGEMENT IN THE CHEMICAL PROCESS INDUSTRIES... 

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