Overview
Chemistry of Hazardous Materials, Sixth Edition, 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. This text covers many essential hazardous materials topics, such as the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemical Substances (GHS); terrorist threats relative to biological, chemical, and radioactive agents; and the latest best practices for the handling and storage of hazardous materials. This new edition continues to emphasize the hazardous materials regulations established by the OSHA, the U.S. D.O.T., and the EPA.
Features
Online supplemental teaching materials are available to help instructors and students get the most from their EMS course.
- Resource Central, accessed through www.bradybooks.com, offers instructors online supplemental teaching material, such as test banks and customizable PowerPoint lectures to aid in the classroom. These instructor resources are also available through Pearson’s Instructor Resource Center.
Emphasizes the use of all three systems of hazard identification
- The NFPA hazard diamonds and GHS pictograms are components of the marginal art displayed throughout this book.
- Chapter 6 is solely devoted to the DOT labeling, marking, and placarding regulations that shippers and carriers use when transporting hazardous materials from place to place.
- The DOT shipping names of hazardous materials are provided in other chapters as the features of individual hazardous materials are noted.
- Explains how to interpret information on labels, signs, tags, and placards that are used to rapidly inform emergency responders of the potential hazards posed by hazardous materials.
Offers an introduction to the principles of basic chemistry, aligned with recommended actions to be executed when emergency responders encounter hazardous materials
- The text is written at a level that assumes little or no previous exposure to the subject.
- As students proceed from one chapter to the next, their comprehension of chemistry should expand so they can grasp the technical basis for the myriad of occupational, transportation, and environmental regulations that affect their daily work.
Solved exercises within each chapter and end-of-chapter review exercises help students apply chemical principles to actual situations.
- Many exercises were intentionally created to demonstrate how responders may use the material introduced in the chapters to predict the behavior of hazardous materials when they are encountered at disaster scenes.
- The exercises also provide the opportunity for students to determine just how effectively they comprehend the subject matter.
New to This Edition
Updated information provides students with essential knowledge on how to respond to emergency situations involving hazardous chemicals.
- Updated correlation guide to FESHE curriculum learning objectives
- Contemporary issues including the Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster, fracking natural gas from shale, dust explosions, biofuels, and more.
- Updated information regarding the global-warming potential of greenhouse gases.
- Updated DOT regulations pertaining to the labeling, marking, and placarding of hazardous materials for shipment.
- Updated information on acceptable practices for handling and storage of hazardous materials.
- Updated information on the contemporary use of alternative motor fuels, including hydrogen, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, methanol, ethanol, coal-derived liquid fuels, and biofuels.
New and expanded information addresses critical areas to help assess, identify, and manage hazardous materials.
- Information on the nature of contingency plans and emergency-action plans for implementation by emergency responders in the event of a release of hazardous substances to the environment.
- OSHA’s flammability criteria</para></listitem> and its consistency with GHS definitions
- Aspects of the Globally Harmonized System for Labeling and Characterizing Hazardous Chemicals (GHS), and the presentation of GHS pictograms and NFPA hazard diamonds in the marginal art throughout the book.
- Labeling Information Based on Canada’s Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS).
- Information concerning exposure </para></listitem>to carcinogenic hazardous materials.
- Adverse health effects resulting from exposure to specific hazardous materials.
- Expanded and updated coverage of warning labels and safety data sheets used by emergency responders</para></listitem>.
- New and updated lists of hazardous materials.
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- Includes references to the original technical sources upon which the author relied to prepare specific subject matters.
- New solved exercises and end-of-chapter review exercises.
- Updated color photos and illustrations throughout the text.
- Chapter objectives now grouped together at the beginning of the chapter.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Features of Matter and Energy
Chapter 3: Flammable Gases and Liquids
Chapter 4: Chemical Forms of Matter
Chapter 5: Principles of Chemical Reactions
Chapter 6: Use of the DOT Hazardous Materials Regulations by Emergency Responders
Chapter 7: Chemistry of Some Common Elements
Chapter 8: Chemistry of Some Corrosive Materials
Chapter 9: Chemistry of Some Water-Reactive Substances
Chapter 10: Chemistry of Some Toxic Substances
Chapter 11: Chemistry of Some Oxidizers
Chapter 12: Chemistry of Some Hazardous Organic Compounds I
Chapter 13: Chemistry of Some Hazardous Organic Compounds II
Chapter 14: Chemistry of Some Polymeric Materials
Chapter 15: Chemistry of Some Explosives
Chapter 16: Radioactive Materials
Appendix A: Table of Elements and Atomic Weights
Appendix A: Safety Data Sheet for Hydrogen Peroxide
Appendix B: Table of Elements and Their Atomic Weights
Appendix C: Hazardous Materials Table
Glossary
Index