Handbook of Pollution and Hazardous Materials Compliance (Environmental Science and Pollution Control Series)

Offers a guide to current environmental health and safety statutes—providing a working knowledge of the major legislations and regulations and demonstrating the steps necessary for compliance. Illustrates overall health and safety management skills for multimedia facilities. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Hazard Communication Act -- What Is the Hazard Communication Act? -- Purposes of the Hazard Communication Act -- Hazard Communication: A Historical Perspective -- Impacts of Other Agencies -- What Are Hazards? -- What Are Hazardous Chemicals? -- Scope and Application of the Standard -- Hazard Determination -- The Written Hazard Communication Program -- Labels and Placards -- The Material Safety Data Sheet -- Employee Information and Training -- Trade Secrets -- Chapter 2. The Occupational Safety and Health Act: Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response -- Introduction -- Safety and Health Programs -- Employee Training and Medical Surveillance Program -- Respiratory Protection and Personal Protective Equipment -- Decontamination Procedures -- Air Monitoring and Instrumentation -- Emergency Response Operations -- Enforcement and Interaction with Other Regulations -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 3. The Clean Air Act -- Introduction -- Historical Perspective -- National Ambient Air Quality Standards -- Title III - Hazardous Air Pollutants -- State Hazardous Pollutant Control Programs -- Solid Waste Combustion -- Incinerators -- Enforcement -- Case Studies -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 4. The Clean Water Act -- Introduction -- The Causes of Water Pollution 93 -- Regulatory Intent -- Industries Affected by the Act -- The Permit and Enforcement Program -- The CWA and Current Wastewater Treatment Technologies -- The CWA and Its Relations to Other Statutes. -- Pending Reauthorization of the CWA -- Key CWA Technologies and Concepts -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 5. The Safe Drinking Water Act -- Introduction and Overview -- Key Provisions -- Enforcement -- Chronological Listing of Federal Register Notices for Drinking Water Regulations This practical reference offers a guide to current environmental health and safely statutes - providing a working knowledge of the major legislations and regulations, demonstrating the steps necessary for compliance, and illustrating overall health and safety management skills for multimedia facilities. Covering the relationships between the Federal Hazard Communication Act and individual states' Right-to-Know legislations, the Handbook of Pollution and Hazardous Materials Compliance furnishes an overview of the Occupational Safety and Health Act regulations, emphasizing hazardous waste handling operations and emergency response...examines the Clean Air Act and its amendments, the Clean Water Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act...explains the Comprehensive Environmental Responsibility, Compensation, and Liability Act; the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act; and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act...elucidates the technical requirements for managing facilities and the issues associated with facility and property transfers...and more "Offers a guide to current environmental health and safety statutes--providing a working knowledge of the major legislations and regulations and demonstrating the steps necessary for compliance. Illustrates overall health and safety management skills for multimedia facilities."--Provided by publisher