Acute exposure guideline levels for selected airborne chemicals. Volume 12 / Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Extremely hazardous substances (EHSs) can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving railroad cars and trucks transporting EHSs. Workers and residents in communities surrounding industrial facilities where EHSs are manufactured, used, or stored and in communities along the nation's railways and highways are potentially at risk of being exposed to airborne EHSs during accidental releases or intentional releases by terrorists. Using the 1993 and 2001 NRC guidelines reports, the National Advisory Committee - consisting of members from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation, other federal and state governments, the chemical industry, academia, and other organizations form the private sector has developed Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGL) for more than 270 EHSs. In 1998, the EPA and DOD requested that the NRC independently reviewed the AEGLs developed by the NAC. In response to that request, the NRC organized within its Committee on Toxicology the Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, which prepared this report, Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: Volume 12. This report explains the scientifically valid conclusions that are based on the data reviewed by NAC and consistent with the NRC guideline reports and provides comments and recommendations for how AEGL could be improved.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Contaminants, Volume 12""; ""National Research Council Committee Review of Acute Exposure Guideline Levels of Selected Airborne Chemicals""; ""Appendixes""; ""1 Butane""; ""2 Chloroacetaldehyde""; ""3 Chlorobenzene""; ""4 Chloroform""; ""5 Methyl Bromide""; ""6 Methyl Chloride""; ""7 Propane""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-67635-3

9786613653284

0-309-25502-3

OCLC:

794903753