The regulations have excellent information on professional practices.
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The regulations have excellent information on professional practices.
The regulations have excellent information on professional practices.
IH professionals will find this resource beneficial for allocating resources to assess and manage occupational exposures to chemical, physical, and biological agents.
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The National Safety Council accident prevention manuals cover most safety topics in reasonable detail. Great source of material in preparing for the exam.
Buy on Amazon: Accident Prevention Manual for Business and Industry-Administration and Programs
The National Safety Council accident prevention manuals cover most safety topics in reasonable detail. Great source of material in preparing for the exam.
Buy on Amazon: Accident Prevention Manual for Business and Industry-Administration and Programs
The National Safety Council accident prevention manuals cover most safety topics in reasonable detail. A great resource for preparing for the ASP and CSP exams.
Buy on Amazon: Accident Prevention Manual for Business and Industry-Engineering and Technology
The National Safety Council accident prevention manuals cover most safety topics in reasonable detail. Great source of material in preparing for the exam.
A contemporary air sampling practices and procedures book. Theory chapters cover a broad array of critical topics, including sampling strategies in the workplace and the community, particle and gas phase interactions, size-selective health hazard sampling, and calibration of gas and vapor samplers and aerosol samplers.
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This book provides guidance on including prevention through design concepts within an occupational safety and health management system; through the application of these concepts, decisions pertaining to occupational hazards and risks can be incorporated into the process of design and redesign of work premises, tools, equipment, machinery, substances, and work processes, including their construction, manufacture, use, maintenance, and ultimate disposal or reuse.
This is a good text that covers IH issues for bacterial, viral, and fungal species. Many IHs find themselves working with mold-related issues. Another good reference source.
You'll find this one a bit less expensive than other references. No, it's not everything you need to know, but it's a great guide to the chemistry that emergency responders need to know, and the author doesn't assume that you have some sort of scientific Ph.D. By Eugene Meyer.
This text covers basic chemistry for emergency responders, guiding students who are often non-science majors through the process of understanding the chemical properties that make materials hazardous.
An essential set of questions for the Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) exam. This book is well laid out in 14 sections. The questions are well-introduced with a short narrative before the pertinent equations and solutions to the over 450 essential questions. The book serves as a formidable preparation for the CHMM exam, a good review of basic principles, a reference for many day-to-day technical issues confronting the practicing worker’s safety, and a guide to raising awareness of potential problems requiring alert action. The authors bring a breadth of experience and insight into the issues handled in the text. They provide context for the basic principles by highlighting examples in the questions and their solutions.
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An easy-to-understand text to help you understand the fundamental equations used in the CIH® exam formulas. Dr. Daniel Farcas, CIH, CSP, CHMM, wrote this book to help those preparing for the Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH®) exam. Its easy-to-understand manner will help you with the fundamental equations used in the exam formulas and grasp the basic concepts of the calculations. As the title suggests, each formula is explained in detail with examples.
An easy-to-understand text to help you understand the fundamental equations used in the CSP® exam formulas. Dr. Daniel Farcas, CIH, CSP, CHMM, wrote this book to help those preparing for the Certified Safety Professional (CSP®) exam. Its easy-to-understand manner will help you with the fundamental equations used in the exam formulas and grasp the basic concepts of the calculations. As the title suggests, each formula is explained in detail with examples.
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Provides very basic information on most industrial hygiene topics. Relatively easy read. Do not recommend purchasing if you have a good library or already own The Industrial Environment: Its Evaluation and Control.
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Haz-Map is an occupational health database designed for health and safety professionals and for consumers seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals and biologicals at work. Haz-Map links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms. It is one of the products and services made available by the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program.
This book has two main sections. The first covers the regulatory framework for hazardous materials, and the second focuses on programs to reduce risk and liability. It has great information for test preparation as well as ongoing on-the-job references. By Robert Jaffin.
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This desk reference is billed as a "one-stop science, regulatory, and management technical reference text." It is a comprehensive collection of up-to-date EH&S regulations and guidance to help you understand and apply this information. Published by the Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals (AHMP).
Back in the 1980s, these authors introduced their copyrighted Eight-Step Process for managing hazmat incidents. Plenty has changed since then, so they're up to their fifth edition. It's a good read by Gregory Noll and three other authors. A Complete Training Solution for Hazardous Materials Technicians and Incident Commanders!
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