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This new edition of the critically acclaimed Handbook of LaboratoryHealth and Safety was designed to help safety officers, laboratorymanagers, principal investigators, and laboratory workers bring labhealth and safety into the twenty-first century. It does this bypresenting a timely, complete, and easy-to-implement approach toensuring a workplace that is safe for its workers as well as thesurrounding community. Further, the handbook lays out guidelines tohelp laboratories comply with the requirements set by OSHA, theEPA, FDA, DOT, DEA, and other relevant regulatory agencies.

While the overall philosophy that made the first edition sosuccessful has remained the same, the book has been extensivelyrevised and updated to reflect all new regulations and technicaladvances that have occurred in the field over the past five years.In addition, this Second Edition now features a multitude of sampleforms, checklists, protocols, and other valuable documents thatwill become an indispensable part of any laboratory health andsafety management program.

A valuable reference tool for those seeking detailed informationand guidance on specific safety and health issues, Handbook ofLaboratory Health and Safety, Second Edition is also much more. Byproviding a set of clear, easy-to-follow guidelines that serve as arational framework for creating site-specific health and safetyrequirements, it, in effect, arms laboratory managers with a solidfoundation upon which to build--or reengineer--a comprehensiveprogram for identifying, managing, and controlling health andsafety hazards in the laboratory. All of the authors' recommendedguidelines are clearly presented in the section entitled "SuggestedLaboratory Health and Safety Guidelines." Each chapter of thehandbook refers to the relevant sections of the SuggestedGuidelines, explains the basis for the recommendations, andprovides guidance on how to comply. Offering a feasible, easilyimplemented approach to designing and maintaining a safe workplace,Handbook of Laboratory Health and Safety is an indispensable toolfor all those responsible for safeguarding the health and safety oflab workers and the residents of the ambient community.

"R. Scott Stricoff...and Douglas B. Walters...have assembledinformation from a variety of sources that is not easily availableelsewhere....This is a useful book." -- Chemical & EngineeringNews

"...provides a useful contribution and will be a welcome additionto the laboratory safety adviser's library....the authors' breadthof knowledge and expertise gives a genuine sense of authority tothe information given." -- Chemistry and Industry

"...useful for laboratory managers and safety officers who are incharge of the safety of workplaces, but it is also useful forlaboratory architects and designers, supervisors, and others incharge of planning safe laboratories. Employees will also findinformation on the handling of toxic samples andchemicals....Although the book follows American standards andregulations, its interest may be considered worldwide. The book isespecially useful in practical safety work because it explainsthoroughly how to build a safe and pleasant laboratory and how tomaintain its safety." -- Scandinavian Journal of Work Environmentand Health

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Managing Health and Safety Risks
• Management Leadership and Employee Involvement
• Hazard Evaluation and Identification
• Responsibilities
• Laboratory Health and Safety Administrative Programs
• Documentation
• Training
• Medical Surveillance
• Chemical Hygiene Program
• Hazard Evaluation and Identification
• Chemical Exposure Evaluation
• Biosafety
• Radiation
• Controlled Substances Management
• Ergonomics Program Management
• Waste Management
• Engineering Controls
• General Laboratory Design
• Barrier System Design
• Ventilation
• Protective Equipment and Work Practice Controls
• Safety Showers and Eyewash Stations
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Respiratory Protective Equipment
• Chemical Handling
• Fire and Explosion Protection
• Emergency Response
• Emergency Response
• Appendices
• Index

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

This important book contains valuable guidelines for health and safety or chemical hygiene programs required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and other agencies. Among its strengths are the provision of outlines for such programs and checklists for ascertaining that safety programs are working. It is particularly strong on chemical safety, and it properly emphasizes worker involvement in planning and execution of chemical hygiene programs and in recognition and correction of hazards. There are some inconsistencies: e.g., the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) does cover academic laboratories; formaldehyde is not the only laboratory chemical covered by a separate OSHA standard (e.g., benzene). The radiation chapter would have been strengthened by illustrations of common NRC citations, e.g., the need for lab security when there is no employee in attendance (even during brief breaks). The chapter on medical surveillance emphasizes the early detection of adverse health effects, rather than the recognition of exposures. This book sets out to cover a broad range of topics and generally does a very good job. Laboratories that conform to its guidelines will certainly be safer places to work. Upper-division undergraduate through professional; two-year technical program students. M. Gochfeld; Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Author notes provided by Syndetics

R. Scott Stricoff is Vice President of Safety and EnvironmentalHealth for Arthur D. Little, Inc. as well as a Certified IndustrialHygienist and Certified Safety Professional. He earned a bachelor'sdegree in chemical engineering from MIT and an MBA fromNortheastern University. Mr. Stricoff is the author and coauthor ofnumerous publications in the field of occupational health andsafety.

Douglas B. Walters, PhD, is the Head of Laboratory Health andSafety in the National Toxicology Program of the National Instituteof Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Walters earned his doctoratein chemistry from the University of Georgia and is a CertifiedSafety Professional. He is the author of Health and Safety forToxicity Testing and Safe Handling of Chemical Carcinogens, as wellas numerous health- and safety-related publications.