Updated information provides students with essential knowledge on how to respond to emergency situations involving hazardous chemicals.
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Updated correlation guide to FESHE curriculum learning objectives
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Contemporary issues including the Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster, fracking natural gas from shale, dust explosions, biofuels, and more.
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Updated information regarding the global-warming potential of greenhouse gases.
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Updated DOT regulations pertaining to the labeling, marking, and placarding of hazardous materials for shipment.
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Updated information on acceptable practices for handling and storage of hazardous materials.
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Updated information on the contemporary use of alternative motor fuels, including hydrogen, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, methanol, ethanol, coal-derived liquid fuels, and biofuels.
New and expanded information addresses critical areas to help assess, identify, and manage hazardous materials.
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Information on the nature of contingency plans and emergency-action plans for implementation by emergency responders in the event of a release of hazardous substances to the environment.
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OSHA’s flammability criteria</para></listitem> and its consistency with GHS definitions
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Aspects of the Globally Harmonized System for Labeling and Characterizing Hazardous Chemicals (GHS), and the presentation of GHS pictograms and NFPA hazard diamonds in the marginal art throughout the book.
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Labeling Information Based on Canada’s Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS).
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Information concerning exposure </para></listitem>to carcinogenic hazardous materials.
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Adverse health effects resulting from exposure to specific hazardous materials.
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Expanded and updated coverage of warning labels and safety data sheets used by emergency responders</para></listitem>.
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New and updated lists of hazardous materials.
Text design has been updated to make reading easier and studying more effective.</inst><para>Identification of OSHA
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Includes references to the original technical sources upon which the author relied to prepare specific subject matters.
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New solved exercises and end-of-chapter review exercises.
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Updated color photos and illustrations throughout the text.
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Chapter objectives now grouped together at the beginning of the chapter.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Features of Matter and Energy
Chapter 3: Flammable Gases and Liquids
Chapter 4: Chemical Forms of Matter
Chapter 5: Principles of Chemical Reactions
Chapter 6: Use of the DOT Hazardous Materials Regulations by Emergency Responders
Chapter 7: Chemistry of Some Common Elements
Chapter 8: Chemistry of Some Corrosive Materials
Chapter 9: Chemistry of Some Water-Reactive Substances
Chapter 10: Chemistry of Some Toxic Substances
Chapter 11: Chemistry of Some Oxidizers
Chapter 12: Chemistry of Some Hazardous Organic Compounds I
Chapter 13: Chemistry of Some Hazardous Organic Compounds II
Chapter 14: Chemistry of Some Polymeric Materials
Chapter 15: Chemistry of Some Explosives
Chapter 16: Radioactive Materials
Appendix A: Table of Elements and Atomic Weights
Appendix A: Safety Data Sheet for Hydrogen Peroxide
Appendix B: Table of Elements and Their Atomic Weights
Appendix C: Hazardous Materials Table
Glossary
Index
