Author: Donald HandyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780999626719
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Silica Small Entity Compliance Guide
Author: Donald HandyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780999626719
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Small Entity Compliance Guide for the Revised Respiratory Protection Standard
Author: United States. Occupational Safety and Health AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Breathing apparatus
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Hazard Communication
Author: U.S. Department of LaborPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497376076
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Chemicals have become an important element of almost every aspect of modern life. All of these chemicals—from cleaning fluids to pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and paints—are produced in workplaces, and may be used in workplaces downstream. While these chemicals have utility and benefits in their applications, they also have the potential to cause adverse effects. These adverse effects include both health hazards (such as carcinogenicity and sensitization), and physical hazards (for example, flammability and reactivity properties). In order to protect workers from these effects—and to reduce the occurrence of chemical source illnesses and injuries— employers need information about the hazards of the chemicals they use, as well as recommended protective measures. Workers have both a right and a need to know this information too, especially so that they can take steps to protect themselves when necessary. No one knows exactly how many chemicals may be present in American workplaces. The total number of chemical substances that have been developed and registered in the Chemical Abstracts Service Registry reached 60 million in 2011—the last 10 million of those were added in less than two years. Many of them involve innovations such as the application of nanotechnology. While not all of these chemicals are produced commercially today, this vast number indicates the scope of the potential problems in workplaces with regard to the safe use of chemicals. In addition, most chemical substances are formulated into mixtures for use in the workplace. Therefore, the number of unique chemical mixtures is far greater than the number of substances, and most workers are exposed to mixtures. The scope of workplaces in which chemical exposures occur is also very broad. While most people can readily associate working in a chemical manufacturing plant as being a job that involves chemical exposures, there are many other types of facilities where such usage is also commonplace. For example, construction workers may be exposed to paints, lacquers, thinners, asphalt fumes, or crystalline silica. Hair stylists are exposed to chemical dyes and other hair products that contain hazardous chemicals. All of these types of exposures are of concern in terms of protecting workers, and ensuring that chemicals are used safely. This guide is intended to help small employers comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Hazard Communication Standard (HCS).
Guidance for Industry
Author: Physical Hazards of the Workplace
Author: Barry SpurlockPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1315356813
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The recognition and control of hazards in the work environment are the cornerstone of every company’s safety and health plan. Every workplace contains dangers, especially those devoted to technology, machinery, and potentially hazardous material. This book provides you with the information you need to understand the regulations that provide for facility safety and their successful implementation for profitable management of any business. FEATURES Explores both occupational and environmental hazards Describes the workplace threats from machines, confined spaces, chemicals, personnel, cumulative trauma, environmental issues, electricity, noise, fire and explosion, and the risk of falling Provides measures to protect the eyes, the head, the respiratory system, the circulatory system, and more Details common fire protection countermeasures from an experienced firefighter and fire instructor Addresses ladders, scaffolding and OSHA fall protection standards Includes sections on PPE, laser safety, and forklifts
A Guide for Protecting Workers from Woodworking Hazards
Author: Sarbanes-Oxley Ongoing Compliance Guide
Author: Anne M. MarchettiPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470144947
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Quick and easy implementation and maintenance guide for ongoingSarbanes-Oxley compliance For most companies, achieving compliance to the Sarbanes-OxleyAct (SOX) has proven to be more challenging, and more costly, thaninitially anticipated. In many cases, initial and second-yearcompliance efforts were found to have strained company resources,causing a shift of focus away from such areas as internal audit inorder to meet SOX requirements. Sarbanes-Oxley Ongoing Compliance Guide: Key Processes andSummary Checklists provides controllers, CFOs, and auditorswith step-by-step guidance to setting up an ongoing complianceprogram for SOX in a quick, easy-to-follow manner. This essentialbook discusses crucial issues such as who should spearheadSarbanes-Oxley compliance, how it should be set up, and which SOXissues need to be monitored by function. Highlighting the key issues that need to be addressed, this bookprovides your organization with practical tools includingcustomizable checklists sorted by function for the SOX implicationsthat correspond to various business functions, such as finance,accounting, IT, and management fields. Today, more than ever, a properly structured internal auditfunction can be a tremendous benefit to an organization, impactingnot only regulatory compliance, but also operational excellence.Concise and clear in presentation, Sarbanes-Oxley OngoingCompliance Guide: Key Processes and Summary Checklists showsyou how to help your organization put in place a successfulenterprise risk management program. This important book arms youwith the vital components of a detailed compliance plan that makesthe most of technology to assist in reducing ongoing compliancecosts.
Advances in Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine E-Book
Author: Carrie A. RedlichPublisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0323712908
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, guest-edited by Drs. Carrie A. Redlich, Kristin J. Cummings, and Peggy Lai, is focused on Advances in Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases. Topics discussed in this issue include but are not limited to: Master Clinician – selected occupational and environmental pulmonary cases; Chest imaging in the Diagnosis of Occupational Lung Diseases; Harnessing electronic medical records to enhance the diagnosis of work-related lung diseases; The impact of health disparities on lung disease; Respiratory health effects of exposure to cleaning products; Occupational upper airways disorders, including laryngeal dysfunction; Occupational bronchiolitis – including flavoring-related lung disease, deployment; Coal workers pneumoconiosis and other mining-related lung disease: the re-emergence of an old disease (including COPD in miners); Occupational contributions to ILD (including asbestos, overlap HP and ILD); Silicosis – Persistence of an old disease, old and new exposure settings and prevention; Occupational respiratory cancer: Chest CT screening; Occupational respiratory Infections: pneumonia, healthcare workers; Update on climate change: its impact on respiratory health at work, home, and at play; The changing nature of wildfires: update on the respiratory health of first responders and communities; The microbiome and damp Indoor environments; The on-going impact of World Trade Center exposures on respiratory health; The impact of Electronic cigarettes and smoking cessation; The respiratory risks of ambient /outdoor air pollution; and Indoor air pollution and respiratory health.
Physical Hazards of the Workplace
Author: Larry R. CollinsPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 142003300X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The recognition and control of hazards in the work environment is the cornerstone of every company's safety and health plan. There are dangers in every workplace, especially those devoted to technology, machinery, and potentially hazardous material. Employers and their management teams must understand the regulations that provide for facility safety. The successful implementation of these legal standards is required for the profitable and legitimate management of any business. Physical Hazards of the Workplace addresses environmental and occupational dangers on the factory floor and in the office. The author explores OSHA, DOT and other federal, state, and local regulatory compliance codes. He explains how to implement these regulations for the prevention and minimization of the growing number of hazards found in work environments. The author devotes individual chapters to dangers related to machines, the respiratory system, the circulatory system, confined spaces, chemicals, personnel, cumulative trauma, environmental issues, electricity, noise, fire and explosion, and the risk of falling. One key chapter discusses issues of emergency and disaster preparedness. The useful appendices concisely detail OSHA training requirements, posting standards, and more.
Practicing Archaeology
Author: Thomas W. NeumannPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538159392
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This comprehensive text and reference book addresses the questions and problems of cultural resources archaeology for undergraduate and graduate students and practicing archaeologists. Neumann, Sanford, and Neumann use their decades of field experience to discuss in great detail the complex processes involved in conducting a cultural resources management (CRM) project. Dealing with everything from law to logistics, archival research to artifact analysis, project proposals to report production, they provide an invaluable sourcebook for archaeologists who do contract archaeology. After introducing the legal and ethical aspects of CRM and stakeholder engagement, the authors describe the processes of designing a proposal and contracting for work, doing background research, conducting assessment, testing, mitigation work (Phase I, II, and III), laboratory analysis, and preparing reports for project sponsors. The volume’s emphasis on practical problems, use of extensive examples, and detailed advice on a host of subjects make it an ideal manual for archaeologists and field schools. This revised and expanded third edition of Practicing Archaeology: A Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology updates Federal and state contracting protocols and covers preparing safety plans for occupational hazards, organization of an archaeology laboratory, use of electronic technology and digital media, advice on field and personnel management, and how to make a living doing cultural resources archaeology.