Chemical Safety

Writer of Foreword: Philip, HRH Prince
A pragmatic guide to the basic tools of health and safety assessment and pollution prevention from information retrieval, through hazard and risk assessment, to safety evaluation and legal aspects. It covers natural and artificial hazards to the environment.

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This text provides a pragmatic guide to the basic tools of health and safety assessment and pollution prevention from information retrieval, through hazard and risk assessment, to safety evaluation and legal aspects. It is global in coverage, with 30 contributions drawn from East and West, North and South. It covers natural and artificial hazards to the environment, including the potentially catastrophic effects of modern warfare, and encompasses pollution of air, water (ground, surface and marine) and soil as well as occupational exposure to chemicals. Anyone with a professional interest in health, safety and pollution control should find this a useful source of information - chemists, environmental scientists, chemical engineers, toxicologists, ecotoxicologists in the academae, industry, local and national governments, international agencies, political scientists and politicians.