Handling and Storage of Chemicals

Twenty-three percent of the readers of Warehousing Management, in responding to a survey, reported that they experienced chemical spill incidents during the past year. 

Seventeen percent reported employee injuries as a result of the chemical spills. Most incidents involved eye irritation or skin exposure resulting in hospitalization and lost time. 

During fiscal 1995 OSH A statistics indicated that warehouses and motor freight transportation facilities were cited for spills or other chemical-related issues. According to the National Response Center (NRC), 27,427 spills were reported in 1997. If a facility stores, handles, or transports 

Noncompliance penalties can be severe, resulting in civil or even criminal charges and fines. The penalties levied against an employer can be as much as 25,000 to 75,000 per day, per violation. 

Chemical Safety Matters also provides useful advice on the precautions to be taken when handling those chemicals that present special problems in a laboratory, e.g., substances that have a high 

Awareness of very reactive chemicals is essential. Advice on handling highly flammable and/or potentially explosive reagents is provided in the lUPAC-IPCS book Chemical Safety Matters, and the properties of many common but hazardous laboratory chemicals are succinctly summarised in the yellow pages section of Hazards in the Chemical Laboratory, 5th edn., ed. S.G. Luxon, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 1992. One particular explosive hazard, peroxide-forming chemicals, is described in more detail in Section 11.8. 

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Deseribe the proper handling and storage of chemicals. Demonstrate actions necessary to handle chemieal spills. Describe the proper disposal of ehemicals. 

Do facility and warehouse control procedures properly implement chemical management procedures to ensure safe handling and storage of chemicals ... 

Normal precautions for chemicals of mild toxicity are appHcable to the safe handling and storage of commercial tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol. Discoloration in storage rarely occurs if the proper precautions are observed prevention of exposure to air wiH prevent autoxidation. The Hst price of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (1997) is 1.15/lb. 

Safe Handling and Storage of DOW Propylene Oxide, Product Bulletin, Form 109-609-788 SMG, The Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., 1988. 

Hydrazide method, for covalent ligand immobilization, 6 396t Hydrazine, 70 727 73 562-607. See also Anhydrous hydrazine analytical methods for, 73 588-589 aqueous grades of, 73 585 chemical properties of, 73 566-576 as a corrosion inhibitor, 73 595 economic aspects of, 73 584-585 electrode potentials of, 73 566t explosive limits of, 73 566 handling and storage of, 73 586-588 as a hazardous material, 73 585... 

Concise guidance targeted at companies engaged primarily in the bulk storage, handling, and use of chemicals to prevent inadvertent mixing of incompatible substances. 

Handling and Storage of Liquid Propellants, Chap. 19, Chemical Propulsion Information Agency, Silver Spring, Md., Jan. 1963. 

As a result of more demanding environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations all over the world, adequate storage, handling, and transport of chemicals will increasingly drive the success of chemical distributors. 

Prior to the initiation of chronic toxicity studies, there should be characterization of test chemical. Information on chemical identity and structure can sometimes be used in an analysis based on structure activity relationships to indicate biological or toxicologic activity. The physical and chemical characteristics of the test chemical provide important information for the selection of administration routes, study design, and handling and storage of the test chemical. 

After the Second World War, the expansion of the petroleum refining and chemical process industries far outstripped that of the rest of the manufacturing industries. The chemical industry also was different than the older established industries due to the nature of toxic and flammable liquids and gases. [12] Naturally, the handling and storage of hazardous materials presented a potential peril that was often far greater than those posed by the traditional industries. 

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