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Handbook for Laboratory Safety provides insights into what you should expect when you enter a laboratory, along with how to behave in these specialized work environments. It is a practical book that can be used as a general introduction to laboratory safety, but also works as a resource for employees or students who do laboratory work. Students could carry this book in their backpack, whereas university/institute/company laboratories could place the book in every laboratory as a reference. This book is also ideally suited for essential courses for students, (new) employees or laboratory technicians who are starting their work in a laboratory environment.

Laboratories --- Chemical laboratories --- Safety measures. --- Laboratory facilities --- Research buildings --- Science laboratories --- Scientific laboratories --- Science rooms and equipment --- Laboratories. --- Laboratory Chemicals. --- Chemical Safety. --- Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points --- Chemical Safety Measures --- Chemical Safety Measure --- Measure, Chemical Safety --- Measures, Chemical Safety --- Safety Measure, Chemical --- Safety Measures, Chemical --- Safety, Chemical --- Chemicals, Laboratory --- Clinical Laboratory Services --- Laboratory --- Medical laboratories. --- Laboratory Chemicals --- Chemical Safety --- Safety --- Safety.

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This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health. The author is a medical scientist, with training in the law. The book documents current understanding about pesticides in food, the plastics revolution, toxic metals, air, water and electronic waste pollutants, chemical exposure in the workplace, radiation pollutants, chemical exposure and hearing loss, how our bodies deal with chemicals, genetic variability and the risk of disease, the effect of chemicals on genes, mitochondria and the immune system and what we can do about it all. Industrialisation has resulted in many thousands of chemicals, which are being continuously developed and often escaping from where they are used into our human environment, without us really knowing enough about them. In high dosages or with continuous small dosage, the evidence suggests, that many of them could interfere with human health and some of them are known to be doing so. But for the vast majority, we are left wondering whether some could be responsible for some diseases the causes of which are inadequately understood. Every chapter is thoroughly reinforced with several pages of references from the peer-reviewed literature.

Environmental chemistry. --- Chemistry, Environmental --- Chemistry --- Ecology --- Pollution. --- Environmental management. --- Refuse and refuse disposal. --- Environmental health. --- Chemicals—Safety measures. --- Environmental Management. --- Waste Management/Waste Technology. --- Environmental Health. --- Chemical Safety. --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Public health --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Discarded materials --- Disposal of refuse --- Garbage --- Household waste --- Household wastes --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Rubbish --- Solid waste management --- Trash --- Waste disposal --- Waste management --- Wastes, Household --- Sanitation --- Factory and trade waste --- Pollution --- Pollution control industry --- Salvage (Waste, etc.) --- Street cleaning --- Waste products --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects