CRC Handbook of Laboratory Safety
Subtitle: Fourth Edition (Crc Handbook of Laboratory Safety, 4th ed)
Edition: 4 edition
Publisher: CRC-Press
Published: May 29, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 816
ISBN-13: 9780849325182
Subjects: Chemistry; Occupational / industrial health & safety; Scientific equipment & techniques, laboratory equipment; Technology & Industrial Arts; Chemical Safety; Science/Mathematics; Industrial Health & Safety; Reference; Science / Environmental Science; Chemical laboratories; Safety measures
First sentence: Safety and health programs for industrial organizations began to be significant early in the 20th century, and since then, there were slow but steady improvements in the industrial working environment, until, in the early 1970s, the Federal Occupational Health and Safety Act was passed as a national program to establish minimum standards for safety for industrial workers.