Description: This new 5th edition offers toxicological data on industrial chemicals that pose potential health hazards to workers. It features a revised format and reorganization of material, and illustrates how the field of toxicology has developed. It also examines the evolution, recognition and control of workplace hazards.
Edited by: Bingham, Eula; Cohrssen, Barbara.; Powell, Charles H.
Knovel Release Date:
Sep 5, 2003
Knovel Subject Area(s):
Safety & Industrial Hygiene
Oil & Gas Engineering
Description:
Completely reorganized, this new edition encompasses 8 volumes. For the vast majority of chapters that focus on individual compounds or classes of compounds, a standardized format will be adopted to provide core identifying information for each compound, such as CAS Registry numbers, RTECS number, physical and chemical properties, threshold limit values, permissible exposure limits, maximum workplace concentrations, and biological tolerance values for occupational exposures.