Handbook for Vigilance in the Chemical and Biohazard Environments

Assessment and management of chemical and biohazard risk requires an understanding of risks in the laboratory, the environment, and the community. This handbook provides guidance on best management practices to help prevent costly oversights and dangers in practice, in industrial and scientific settings. It offers tools to actively avoid ill effects by addressing complacency, promoting good laboratory ethics, and encouraging proactive strategies to minimize risk. This handbook examines the safety culture of chemicals in a laboratory setting, simultaneously serving both as a proactive management exercise and as a means of preventing costly oversights and dangers in practice.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive resource for concepts, issues and competencies in the management of laboratory design and safety, chemical security, and biohazard security.
• In line with the principles of the WHO Good Laboratory Practice Handbook, this handbook has integrated regulation and quality improvement into the text.
• Offers tools to actively avoid negative effects by addressing complacency, good laboratory ethic, and proactive strategies to minimize risk.
• Examines the safety culture of chemicals and other consumables in a laboratory setting, serving as a proactive management key for workers and users.
• Re-examines laboratory design, physical and materials management, and system designs to minimize hazardous consequences.