title: Emergency Response and Hazardous Chemical Management: Principles and Practices (Advances in Environmental Management Series)
author: Clyde B. Strong
description: Management of hazardous chemicals and materials, particularly during emergency release situations, has become an important part of the regular training required for workers and professionals in the chemical, petrochemical, petroleum, and manufacturing industries. This is the most concise source book available on this critical issue for workers and management. Topics include preparing hazardous chemicals, materials, and wastes for transportation, properties and effects of hazardous substances, principles of toxicology, respiratory protection and protective clothing, monitoring and detection and protective clothing, decontamination procedures and containment and stabilization of hazardous substance spills. -- <i>From the Publisher</i>
zlib_text: Furr, A. Keith Ph.D. "EMERGENCIES"
  CRC Handbook of Laboratory Safety
  Edited by A. Keith Furr, Ph.D.
  Boca Raton: CRC Press LLC,2000
  
   ©2000 CRC Press LLC
  Chapter 2
  EMERGENCIES
  Emergencies are, by definition, not planned. However, planning for  emergencies can not only
  be done, but is an essential component of laboratory safety. This is especially true for the
  laboratory environment where the potential for incidents is much higher than in many other
  working situations. There are many regulatory standards that now require that organizations
  using chemicals  in laboratories and elsewhere, or that produce chemical waste, have formal
  emergency plans. These plans must cover emergency evacuation and response procedures,
  emergency equipment to be kept on hand, security, training of personnel handling hazardous
  chemicals, reference materials, identification of emergency personnel, and access to external
  resources, including aid agreements with local emergency organizations. For example, every
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