Chemical Risk Analysis: A Practical Handbook - Hardcover

Martel, Bernard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560328355 ISBN 13: 9781560328353

Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2000

Synopsis

Included in this handbook are the principal methodological tools and data required to comprehend, evaluate, and execute analysis of chemical risk in practioal working situations. An outstanding feature of the book are the dangerous property tables providing data on more tha 1900 products, organic and inorganic. These tables are supplemented throughout the text by numerous figures and other tables, helping make this publication both comprehensive and accessible.

About this title

About the Author

Professor at the University of Paris-Nord, where he specialises in risk chemistry. He also is regularly employed as a risk expert for major industrial chemical groups. The English language edition consultant, Keith Cassidy, Franklin Medallist of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, lectures widely and is author of more than 100 papers on risk regulation, assessment and management and control of major chemical hazards. He is past Chairman of the UK Hazard and Risk Methodologies Group and until recently was Head of UK’s Health and Safety Major Hazards Unit.

Review

"An important addition to the literature on risk analysis, not only an information-packed, working handbook, but also a provocative inspiring theoretical treatise and record of numerous case studies by the author and others... It must be read by, and available to, all safety specialists in the process industries and those involved in the teaching, development and use of chemical hazard and risk analysis procedures."
―Occupational Safety and Health

Edition details

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1560328355
• ISBN 13: 9781560328353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Cassidy Keith