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A wealth of vital haz-mat data consolidated in a compact field guide.

When you work with hazardous materials, comprehensive reliable information is critical to your success and safety. The new NFPA Pocket Guide to Hazardous Materials pulls together the essential requirements, tables, charts, lists, formulas, illustrations, and calculations you need into one handy volume.

It's an essential resource for fire service, EMS and law enforcement personnel; inspectors from the public and private sectors; industry emergency response teams; and personnel from related agencies such as EPA, DOT, FEMA, and the FBI.

Complete facts and figures from leading sources bring you the full safety picture.

This powerful on-the-job tool presents the most crucial data from NFPA codes and standards, plus information from OSHA, the Department of Transportation, National Paint and Coatings Association, and more. Topics covered include:

• Chemical classification schemes--NFPA, OSHA, DOT placards
• Health hazards--threshold limit values, permissible exposure limits, conversion factors, atmospheric monitoring
• Storage quantity requirements--flammable/combustible liquids, oxidizers, organic peroxides
• Container recognition--labeling systems, how to interpret label information
• Personal protective equipment-- how to select appropriate PPE, organization by type of material
• Fire and spill control--which foams to use with which chemicals, dilution rates
• Emergency response--when to respond and when to evacuate, how to bring dangerous levels back to safe levels

Take this convenient and portable reference with you on every job. Order your copy today!

Give yourself ready access to specialized facts. If your job involves haz-mat incident response, prevention, or inspection, this book could save your life...and many others, too. (Approx. 350 pp., 2003)