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.
A comprehensive reference and classroom text on current environmental health and safety statutes, the steps necessary to comply with them, and overall health and safety management skills. The treatment recognizes that many companies are now combining environmental management with occupational health and safety into one department or position. Discusses the federal and state legislation on disclosure of hazardous material, hazardous waste handling operations and emergency response, the several general and specific acts and their amendments, technical requirement for managing facilities, issues relating to transferring facilities and property, and other aspects. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
