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Books in Chemical health and safety

This collection emphasizes best practices in chemical hazard management, risk assessment, and safety protocols. Showcasing research and case studies, it supports safety professionals, engineers, and researchers in creating safer workplaces and environmental practices. Covering regulatory compliance, toxicology, and emergency response, these titles promote a safety-first approach in chemical industries and laboratories. The resources help mitigate risks, ensure regulatory adherence, and foster a culture of safety and responsibility.

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    • Databook of Biocides

      • 2nd Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Anna Wypych + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The Databook of Biocides, Second Edition is an essential resource for professionals working with biocidal products in the European Union and United States. This comprehensive volume presents a curated selection of both generic and commercial biocides that are currently approved for use, making it a practical reference for researchers, manufacturers, and regulatory personnel. Drawing from a wide array of sources, the book allows for easy comparison of data on physical properties, health and safety information, and environmental impact. It provides valuable guidance on best practices and application methods, supporting informed decision-making in biocide use.The book organizes biocides into four main categories: disinfectants (including washing liquids and powders), preservatives for microbial and algal prevention, pest control solutions, and other specialized biocidal products such as antifouling agents and embalming fluids. It details important attributes like volatility, solubility, concentration, and safety factors including flash point, autoignition temperature, and toxicological risks. Additionally, the text pays particular attention to ecological considerations, including biodegradability and aquatic toxicity.

    • High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries

      • 2nd Edition
      • March 15, 2025
      • J.R Thomson
      • English
      • Paperback
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      High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries, Second Edition serves as an overview of best practices as applied to high integrity systems, including their design, maintenance, regulation, and detailed guidance surrounding safety management processes. Across three parts, this book introduces current, key themes for all engineering managers of high-hazard plants, including aging plants, cybersecurity, crisis management, corporate social responsibility, and the significance of local culture to operational safety.This book uses real-world examples and a multidisciplinary approach to safety case management to bridge the disciplinary gap and help readers understand the latest advice and technology underpinning high integrity systems and safety management. It will be an invaluable guide for industry professionals, researchers, and students at graduate level or above working or researching in hazardous industries.

    • Nanotechnology Safety

      • 2nd Edition
      • November 21, 2024
      • Ramazan Asmatulu + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The second edition of Nanotechnology Safety outlines the safety, regulatory, and environmental issues related to nanotechnology per industry, offering guidelines for risk assessment and discussion of the legal and social-economic issues related to nanotechnology. This book serves as a guide to implementing nanotechnology in compliance with the current safety regulations. This revised edition is updated and provides full details of the latest advances in nanomaterials and nanotechnology, including their industrial applications, toxicity levels, and protection systems.Nanotechnolo... Safety remains an indispensable resource for academia and industries, offering updates on recent processes and nanosystems, the latest information about nanomanufacturing and their products for various industries, and information about legislative policies of nanomaterials, waste stream classifications, safety goals, processing facilities, and market developments for new products. The book provides researchers, academics, students, and policymakers with information for research into and the manufacturing of nanomaterials.

    • Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes

      • 1st Edition
      • February 29, 2024
      • Maulin P. Shah + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes: Emerging Technologies for Removal of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products: State of the Art, Challenges and Future Perspectives provides a holistic overview on the recent advances and challenges associated with pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCP) removal from water and wastewater. The book covers advanced remediation technologies such as microbial fuel cells (MFCs), microalgae, and hybrid technologies, and focuses on the environmental sustainability of each technology, using lifecycle assessment.This book will help students and researchers in carrying out research on further advancements in the field, also helping them apply this to the real-world conditions.

    • Safety in the Chemical Laboratory and Industry

      • 1st Edition
      • July 11, 2023
      • Muhammad Raza Shah
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Safety in the Chemical Laboratory and Industry: A Practical Guide provides an authoritative reference on chemical safety procedures and the handling and disposal of chemicals at both the laboratory and industrial level. The book serves as a practical guide for laboratory workers and offers prudent guidelines for the development of regulatory policy for academic and non-academic organizations. The book stresses that all accidental injuries can be minimized if systems and attitudes are in place to prevent them and that to fully materialize a safety culture, even with improved technology, everyone should be mindful of maintaining a safe environment. This handbook will assist faculty, researchers, staff and students to provide a safe and healthy laboratory environment to teach, learn and conduct research.

    • Fundamentals of Risk Management for Process Industry Engineers

      • 1st Edition
      • April 19, 2023
      • Maureen Hassall + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Fundamentals of Risk Management for Process Industry Engineers outlines foundational principles of human-centered, sociotechnical risk management, and how they can be applied to deliver real improvements in risk identification, understanding, analysis, control, communication, and governance. To maximize sustainable competitiveness requires the identification and optimization of the range of risks that can impact a business. Hence, understanding the foundational principles of sociotechnical risk management is required to design and execute effective risk identification, optimization, and management strategies.

    • Environmental Applications of Microbial Nanotechnology

      • 1st Edition
      • October 26, 2022
      • Pardeep Singh + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Environmental Applications of Microbial Nanotechnology: Emerging Trends in Environmental Remediation discusses emerging trends and recent advancements in environmental remediation. The book provides environmental applications of microbial nanotechnology that helps readers understand novel microbial systems and take advantage of recent advances in microbial nanotechnologies. It highlights established research and technology on microbial nanotechnology's environmental applications, moves to rapidly emerging aspects and then discusses future research directions. The book provides researchers in academia and industry with a high-tech start-up that will revolutionize the modern environmental applications of microbial nanotechnology research.

    • Handbook for Laboratory Safety

      • 1st Edition
      • April 29, 2022
      • Benjamin R. Sveinbjornsson + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Handbook for Laboratory Safety provides insights into what you should expect when you enter a laboratory, along with how to behave in these specialized work environments. It is a practical book that can be used as a general introduction to laboratory safety, but also works as a resource for employees or students who do laboratory work. Students could carry this book in their backpack, whereas university/institute... laboratories could place the book in every laboratory as a reference. This book is also ideally suited for essential courses for students, (new) employees or laboratory technicians who are starting their work in a laboratory environment.

    • Overpressure Protection in the Process Industry

      • 1st Edition
      • January 17, 2022
      • Marc Hellemans
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Overpressure Protection in the Process Industry: A Critical View provides a practical and pragmatic guidance for anyone dealing with overpressure protection in the process industry. The book explains the background of complicated international codes and regulations, offering a pragmatic and practical approach on how these codes can be interpreted for specific cases. The book also gives a critical view on these codes and regulations and where they do or don't make sense, along with the challenges in some instances, including technical and practical argumentations. Finally, the book covers specific problem areas and sizing methods when using safety relief devices as overpressure protection, such as how to handle installation, backpressures, blowdowns, the 3% rule, types of chatter and other destructive forces in relief devices.

    • Dynamic Risk Assessment and Management of Domino Effects and Cascading Events in the Process Industry

      • 1st Edition
      • June 8, 2021
      • Valerio Cozzani + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Dynamic Risk Assessment and Management of Domino Effects and Cascading Events in the Process Industry provides insights into emerging and state-of-the-art methods for the dynamic assessment of risk and safety barrier performance in the framework of domino effect risk management. The book presents methods and tools to manage the risk of cascading events involving the chemical and process industry. It is an ideal reference for both safety and security managers, industrial risk stakeholders, scientists and practitioners. In addition, laymen may find the state-of-the-art methods concerning domino effects (large-scale accidents) and how to prevent their propagation an interesting topic of study.