Environmental, Toxicological & Occupational Health and Safety

Here is a guide of the key resources for environmental, toxicological, and health & safety information for chemicals.

CRC Handbook of Laboratory Safety [online]: provides information on planning and building a facility, developing an organization infrastructure, planning for emergencies and contingencies, choosing the correct equipment, developing operational plans, and meeting regulatory requirements.

CRC Handbook of Chemicals and Safetay [online]: Provides basic and elementary information, and offers a comprehensive tool for the management of a range of chemical substances commonly used, handled, stored, transported, and disposed of as wastes.

Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials : The three-volume set includes Immediately Dangerous Life or Health (IDHL) levels for approximately 1000 chemicals and data on approximately 26,000 substances, proving essential for designing adequate ventilation systems and selection of respiratory protection.

Sittig's handbook of toxic and hazardous chemicals and carcinogens : Sittig's 5th Edition remains the lone comprehensive work providing a vast array of critical information on the 2,100 most heavily used, transported, and regulated substances of occupational and environmental concern.

Center for Chemical Process Safety: provides guidelines for use in the chemical process industry.

TOXNET: United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

Canadian Centre for Occupation Health & Safety (CCOHS) Academic Program: Consists of material safety databases maintained by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety. Includes: MSDS & FTSS, CHEMINFO, HSELINE, OSHLINE with NIOSHTIC, RTECS, CHEMINDEX, INCHEM, and Fatality Reports.

Health Canada Environmental and Workplace Health: This site offers information and advice on some of the most common environmental factors that affect human health: air, noise, soil and water pollution, climate change, environmental contaminants, occupational health and safety.

Labour Canada Workplace Health and Safety Links: This site includes links to CSA Standards for Occupational Health and Safety, and Compliance Policy, etc.

CanOSH - Canada's National Occupational Health and Safety Web Site: This site puts together workplace safety and health information from the Canadian federal, provincial and territorial governments.

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Updated on Dec. 20, 2010