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Pesticide is an umbrella term that covers insecticides, herbicides and fungicides. Although chemical pesticides in dry and liquid forms are widely used, there are other forms of lawn, garden mad [...]

New Enforcement Priority Weighting Scheme Enforcement Units. Enforcement cases will be assigned the following weight: GROUP A Includes the most time intensive, complex and high-priority inspections. 7 EUs a. Criminal [...]

Developing a laboratory chemical hygiene plan In January of this year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration published the final standard for "Occupational Exposures to Hazardous Chemicals in Laboratories." [1] [...]

Chemicals Training Plan Stresses Comprehension Hazard communication regulations require employees be informed about and understand the dangers Employees have a right to know about the chemical hazards in their workplaces. [...]

Cruisers need to know the proper use and storage of specialized chemicals onboard to ensure safety. An understanding of these chemicals and their hazards is crucial. These chemicals include muriatic acid, diesel oil, kerosene, alcohol-based products and liquor, ammonia and chlorine bleaches., A self-sufficient boat must carry a cache of specialized chemicals. Proper use and storage is vital to onboard safety. Here's how common compounds stack up The modern cruising boat is [...]

The first meeting between the west and the former Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) countries was organized by the European Petrochemical Association last Apr 1992 in hopes of promoting cooperation regarding logistics operations. Countries belonging to central and eastern Europe have shifted their economic trading to western Europe following the collapse of the COMECON. The logistic problems faced by the former COMECON countries include infrastructure and regulation, modernization of transport stock and lack of independent chemical storage facilities.

The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services reminds farmers it is important to always take precautions when transporting pesticides, including properly securing them and not transporting them in [...]

CHEMICAL SHIPMENTS on the Gulf Coast and nationwide are subject to disruption and/or delay by water, rail, truck, pipeline and the postal service as chemical plants, refineries and product shippers [...]

Online marketplaces designed to speed business-to-business transactions in the chemicals industry are now rushing to examine their security systems to look for blind spots that could allow terrorists to obtain […]

OFFICIALS FROM the US, the European Union and 90 other countries signed a treaty last week that will eliminate or minimize production and use of a dozen highly toxic pesticides, [...]

How to assess unregulated chemicals Less than one percent of all chemicals commercially used in the United States have an established occupational exposure limit such as a permissible exposure limit [...]

In this case history, efforts to minimize the hazard caused more problems and increased the risks to the task Preventing dangerous actions is something that is equated with being safe. [...]

It has been eight years since CFR 1910.119 was passed. Are companies really reaping the full benefits from safety audits and management programs? On May 26, 1992, the Occupational Safety [...]

This method provides reliable, fail-to-safe operation Dramatic shifts in electronics technology over the past five years have affected industrial safety system design for oil and gas applications--as well as for [...]

AIR PRODUCTS and Chemicals Inc., according to Responsible Care performance data recently released by the Chemical Manufacturers Association, had the best safety record among large-scale chemical manufacturers in the US [...]

TEE CLINTON Administration is proposing regulations that would establish a process for making sensitive information on potential accidents at thousands of chemical plants available to the public. The proposed rule [...]

Paola Gnemi, Chemical Safety Unit Head, and Antonio Canto, BDM, Industrial Toxicology, LCG BIOSCIENCE, Istituto di Ricerche Biomediche 'A. Marxer', RBM Spa The chemical sector's chances of growing are closely [...]

THE EUROPEAN chemical industry entered the new millennium without any Y2K problems after years of preparation by many companies. The transition to 2000 went so smoothly among both large and [...]

AS THE 20th Century winds down, companies involved in the logistics and distribution of liquid and dry bulk commodities can look back with considerable pride at what has been accomplished. [...]

Security professionals and environmentalists were united on the use of inherently safer technologies (ISTs) to lessen or eliminate the risks involved in manufacture and transport of hazardous chemicals. However, the issue of whether federal regulators can order use of ISTs remains controversial in the U.S. Congress in 2010. Details of a Senate bill on ISTs are also discussed.

While chemical safety includes many individual elements, ranging from right-to-know training, to personal protective equipment (PPE), to material safety data sheets (MSDS), these elements should be part of a larger, [...]

Though the chemical industry has always been concerned with the security and safety of its facilities, employees and communities, a heightened awareness of the matter has spread throughout all facets [...]

Handling Plant Chemicals Safely Chemical plant or not, concern over chemical safety is growing. In December 1984, in Bhopal, India, a leaking tank of methyl isocyanate killed thousands. A few [...]

EPA's new pulp and paper mill standard is 'one of the most expensive ever proposed for a single industry,' says the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) AF&PA President W. [...]

Highly reactive chemicals require special treatment in the laboratory. This article reviews safety criteria and provides information on how to stay up-to-date with your safety knowledge. Many categories of unstable [...]

IN THE early hours of December 3rd 1984, a poisonous gas escaped from a chemical plant near Bhopal in India. As a result of slipshod management and a breakdown of [...]

Today more than ever, plants that use chemicals must prove they are good community members. The press, as well as citizens groups, keep an eye on them, a reflection of [...]