Publisher's Synopsis
The second edition of this one-stop reference provides firefighters and emergency responders with critical fire suppression information on more than 800 hazardous chemicals.;For the professional who must find this data quickly under demanding circumstances, this handbook offers hazardous chemical information in the convenient forms of Material Safety Data Sheets, providing such specific data as chemical name, synonyms, DOT hazard class and guide number, a physical description, the chemical properties, associated with health hazards, first aid procedures, and fire, reactivity, corrosivity and radioactivity hazards. Where research show varying limits for the different characteristics, the books uses the most conservative figures.;All data entries have been reevaluated, updated, revised and enhanced in light of new findings. Additional synonyms are included for each entry, and a new category, providing label data, has also been added. Likewise, the glossary has been refined with the addition of new terms and revisions of others. In addition, the first aid procedures in the health hazards section have been made more specific.;Also new to the second edition is a massive yet easy-to-access 8,000 entry index that quickly pinpoints where additional information on a particular chemical can be found in one or more of 12 widely-used reference books.;This book should be of interest to firefighters, emergency responders.
