A wealth of vital haz-mat data consolidated in a compact field guide. When you work with hazardous materials, comprehensive reliable information is critical to your success and safety. The new NFPA Pocket Guide to Hazardous Materials pulls together the essential requirements, tables, charts, lists, formulas, illustrations, and calculations you need into one handy volume. Complete facts and figures from leading sources bring you the full safety picture. It's an essential resource for fire service, EMS and law enforcement personnel, inspectors from the public and private sectors, industry emergency response teams, and personnel from related agencies such as EPA, DOT, FEMA, and the FBI. This powerful on-the-job tool presents the most crucial data from NFPA codes and standards, plus information from OSHA, the Department of Transportation, National Paint and Coatings Association, and more. Topics covered include: bull; bull; Chemical classification schemes--NFPA, OSHA, DOT placards bull; Health hazards--threshold limit values, permissible exposure limits, conversion factors, atmospheric monitoring bull; Storage quantity requirements--flammable/combustible liquids, oxidizers, organic peroxides bull; Container recognition--labeling systems, how to interpret label information bull; Personal protective equipment-- how to select appropriate PPE, organization by type of material bull; Fire and spill control--which foams to use with which chemicals, dilution rates bull; Emergency response--when to respond and when to evacuate, how to bring dangerous levels back to safe levels Take this convenient and portable reference with you on every job, and give yourself ready access to specialized facts. If your job involves HazMat incident response, prevention, or inspection, this book could save your life, and many others, too.

Before starting work in hazardous locations, make sure your entire crew is prepared with a basic understanding of fire and explosion safety in these specialized sites. NFPA's guide provides practical advice on key issues such as...Hazardous vx. classified locations, special considerations for grouding and bonding, protection against ignition from static electricity and lightning. Follow the right precautions in every environment, from aircraft hangars to zirconium processing plants! This guide also includes lists of relevant codes and standards, books and technical articles.

Handbook for Process Safety in Laboratories and Pilot Plants Effectively manage physical and chemical risks in your laboratory or pilot plant In Handbook for Process Safety in Laboratories and Pilot Plants: A Risk-based Approach, the Center for Chemical Process Safety delivers a comprehensive and authoritative presentation of process safety procedures and methods for use in laboratories and pilot plants (LAPPs). Of the four broad hazard categories — chemical, physical, biological, and ionizing radiation — this book focuses on the two most common: chemical and physical hazards. It addresses the storage and handling of the hazardous materials associated with activities commonly performed in LAPPs and presents many of the physical and chemical analytical techniques used to verify and validate the efficacy of safety management systems. This book will present tools and techniques for effectively managing the risks in any laboratory or pilot plant using engineered and administrative controls, as well as the CCPS Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) Management Systems. Readers will also find: A thorough introduction to process safety Comprehensive explorations of understanding hazards and risks, as well as managing risk with engineered controls, administrative controls, and RBPS Management Systems Practical discussions of how to learn from the experiences of your own LAPP and others Detailed case reports and examples, as well as practical tools, control banding strategies, and glass equipment design Perfect for any LAPP staff member working with or managing hazardous materials, Handbook for Process Safety in Laboratories and Pilot Plants: A Risk-based Approach will also benefit LAPP engineering and scientific professionals, LAPP technical support staff, and LAPP managers. The Center for Chemical Process Safety is a world leader in developing and distributing information on process safety management and technology. Since 1985, CCPS has published over 100 books in its process safety guidelines and concept series, 33 training modules as part of its Safety in Chemical Engineering Education series, and over 220 online offerings.

Written by an engineer for engineers, this book is both training manual and on-going reference, bringing together all the different facets of the complex processes that must be in place to minimize the risk to people, plant and the environment from fires, explosions, vapour releases and oil spills. Fully compliant with international regulatory requirements, relatively compact but comprehensive in its coverage, engineers, safety professionals and concerned company management will buy this book to capitalize on the author's life-long expertise. This is the only book focusing specifically on oil and gas and related chemical facilities. This new edition includes updates on management practices, lessons learned from recent incidents, and new material on chemical processes, hazards and risk reviews (e.g. CHAZOP). Latest technology on fireproofing, fire and gas detection systems and applications is also covered. An introductory chapter on the philosophy of protection principles along with fundamental background material on the properties of the chemicals concerned and their behaviours under industrial conditions, combined with a detailed section on modern risk analysis techniques makes this book essential reading for students and professionals following Industrial Safety, Chemical Process Safety and Fire Protection Engineering courses. - A practical, results-oriented manual for practicing engineers, bringing protection principles and chemistry together with modern risk analysis techniques - Specific focus on oil and gas and related chemical facilities, making it comprehensive and compact - Includes the latest best practice guidance, as well as lessons learned from recent incidents

320 page book with eleven chapters containing over 3000 selections of information that all Firefighters should know. This book is designed to assist Firefighters prepare for the FIRE CAPTAIN-LIEUTENANT promotional WRITTEN EXAM. Topics included: fire administration, leadership management, fire prevention, fire behavior, hazardous materials, fire-fighting, as well as a 100 question practice exam and muchmore!