An easily accessible guide to scientific information, Hazardous Chemicals: Safety Management and Global Regulations covers proper management, precautions, and related global regulations on the safety management of chemical substances. The book helps workers and safety personnel prevent and minimize the consequences of catastrophic releases of toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive chemical substances, which often result in toxic or explosive hazards. It also details safety measures for transportation of chemical substances by different routes, such as by road, rail, air, and sea.
- Discusses different aspects of potentially toxic and hazardous chemicals in simple and comprehensive language
- Provides toxicity and health effects of chemicals in simple, nontechnical language
- Covers scientific information on hazardous and potentially dangerous chemical substances at workplaces
- Offers fundamental knowledge about the biological and health effects of hazardous and potentially toxic chemicals in a comprehensive way
- Includes recent developments on safety management of hazardous and potentially toxic chemicals and related global regulations
The author discusses the importance of knowledge in avoiding negligence during the use and handling of hazardous chemical substances. He stresses the importance of proper management and judicious application of each chemical substance irrespective of the workplace and eventually shows how safety and protection of the user, workplace, and the living environment can be achieved.
Turuvekere Subrahmanya Shanmukha Dikshith, PhD, was responsible for the establishment of the Pesticide Toxicology Laboratory at Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India, Lucknow, India. He was director of the Toxicology Research Laboratory, VIMTA Labs Ltd., Hyderabad, India. He also worked as a consultant, Pharmacology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, India. Dr. Dikshith served on the committees and expert panels constituted by different ministries of the Government of India. As an expert committee member, he also served the Central Insecticides Board (CIB), Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, India. He is a member of the World Health Organization Task Group on Environmental Health Criteria Documents and the International Program on Chemical Safety. Dr. Dikshith is the technical specialist for Standards Australia Quality Assurance Services (SAQAS), Australia, and Lloyd Register Quality Assurance Ltd. (LRQA), London, for the quality management of the laboratory and good laboratory practice. He is also the recipient of the Chandra Kanta Dandiya prize in pharmacology.
As a fellow of the World Health Organization, Dr. Dikshith has worked at the Institute of Comparative and Human Toxicology, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, and also at the International Center of Environmental Safety, Holloman, New Mexico. He has worked in several laboratories in France, Germany, and Canada. Dr. Dikshith has edited
Toxicology of Pesticides in Animals published by CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, and has authored a book chapter published by Plenum Press, New York. He has also authored several other books, including
Safety Evaluation of Environmental Chemicals published by New Age International Publishers, India;
Industrial Guide to Chemical and Drug Safety published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey; and
Safe Use of Chemicals: A Practical Guide and Handbook of Chemicals and Safety published by CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
