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Sources of Information for Haz-Map

Online Books and Databases

  1. Akron "The Chemical Database" from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Akron with information about 20,177 hazardous chemicals.
  2. ATSDR Case Studies in Environmental Medicine. Atlanta: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 1990-97. New editions are now available on the web.
  3. ATSDR Medical Management "The Medical Management Guidelines (MMGs) for Acute Chemical Exposures were developed by ATSDR to aid emergency department physicians and other emergency healthcare professionals who manage acute exposures resulting from chemical incidents."
  4. ATSDR ToxFAQs  "The ATSDR ToxFAQs is a series of summaries about hazardous substances developed by the ATSDR Division of Toxicology." Each ToxFAQ is linked to the full Toxicological Profile.
  5. ATSDR ToxProfiles  "The ATSDR toxicological profile succintly characterizes the toxicologic and adverse health effects information for the hazardous substance described here. Each peer-reviewed profile identifies and reviews the key literature that describes a hazardous substance's toxicologic properties."
  6. ChemFinder Find a chemical by name, CAS #, or synonym and find linked information on the web.
  7. ChemIDplus  A database of 367,465 records and 174,362 chemical structures at the National Library of Medicine.
  8. CHRIS  Chemical Hazards Response Information System from the United States Coast Guard.
  9. EPA Pesticides  Reigart JR, Roberts JR (eds). Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings, 5th Ed. Washington DC: EPA, 1999.
  10. EXTOXNET  Pesticide Information Profiles.
  11. HSDB  Hazardous Substances Data Bank "The HSDB® (Hazardous Substances Data Bank®) database contains data profiles on 4,500 potentially toxic chemical substances. It is created and updated by specialists at the US National Library of Medicine. Compiled from an extensive range of authoritative sources, HSDB is widely recognized as a reliable and practical source of health and safety information. Much of the data is peer reviewed."
  12. ICSC  International Chemical Safety Cards.
  13. IDLH  Documentation for Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health Concentrations.
  14. Merck Manual  Beers MH, Berkow R, Burs M (eds). The Merck Manual, 17th Ed. Merck & Co., Inc., 1999. 
  15. NAERG  North American Emergency Response Guidebook.
  16. NCID  CDC National Center for Infectious Diseases.
  17. New Jersey DOH  N.J. Department of Health Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets.
  18. NIOSH CPC  Recommendations for Chemical Protective Clothing, February 1998/Updated April 12, 1999.
  19. NIOSH Guidelines for Chemical Hazards  Occupational Health Guidelines for Chemical Hazards was first published by NIOSH in 1981 with additions and revisions in 1988, 1992, and 1995. 467 chemicals are covered.
  20. NIOSHTIC  "NIOSHTIC® is a bibliographic database which provides comprehensive international coverage of documents on occupational health and safety, as well as related fields. It contains detailed summaries of over 200,000 articles, reports and publications, spanning over 100 years. OSHLINE™ complements the coverage of NIOSHTIC®, which was discontinued in mid-1998." Available at CCOHS.
  21. NIOSHTIC-2  "NIOSHTIC-2 contains approximately 32,000 occupational safety and health information resource citations. The majority of the resources (20,000) date from 1971 to the present."
  22. NTP  National Toxicology Program Chemical Health & Safety Data for over 2000 chemicals;
  23. OSHA  OSHA Technical Links.
  24. Pocket Guide  NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards. The web site has links to the DOT ID & Guide, IDLH documentation, ICSC Cards and "Medical Tests."

Books and Compact Discs

  1. Adams, RM (ed). Occupational Skin Diseases, 3rd Ed. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1999.
  2. Burgess WA. Recognition of Health Hazards in Industry, 2nd Ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
  3. Chin J (ed). Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 17th Ed. Washington DC: APHA, 2000.
  4. CSH  Baldwin DG, Williams ME, Murphy PL. Chemical Safety Handbook: For the Semiconductor/Electronics Industry, 3rd Ed. Berverly Farms, MA: OEM Press, 2002.
  5. Ford MD, Delaney KA, Ling LJ, Erickson T (eds). Clinical Toxicology. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 2001.
  6. Frazier LM, Hage ML (eds). Reproductive Hazards of the Workplace. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
  7. Harber P, Schenker MB, Balmes JR (eds). Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Diseases. St. Louis: Mosby, 1996.
  8. Hawley  Lewis RJ. Hawley’s Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 12th Ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1993.
  9. ILO Encyclo  Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety, 4th ed., CD-ROM. Stellman JM, ed. (ILO, 1998)
  10. Kanerva L, Elsner P, Wahlberg JE, Maibach HI (eds). Handbook of Occupational Dermatology. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2000.
  11. LaDou J (ed). Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 2nd Ed. Stamford: Appleton & Lange, 1997.
  12. Levy BS, Wegman DH (eds). Occupational Health: Recognizing and Preventing Work-Related Disease, 3rd Ed. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1995.
  13. Malo J-L, Chan-Yeung M. Tables of Major Inducers of Occupational Asthma. In: Bernstein LI, Chan-Yeung M, Malo J-L, Bernstein DI (eds). Asthma in the Workplace. 2nd Ed. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1999.
  14. Marks JG, DeLeo VA. Contact and Occupational Dermatology, 2nd Ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 1997.
  15. Merck Index  Budavari S, O’Neil MJ, Smith A, Heckelman PE (eds). The Merck Index, An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals, 11th Ed. Rahway: Merck & Co., Inc., 1989.
  16. Quick CPC  Forsberg K, Mansdorf SZ. Quick Selection Guide to Chemical Protective Clothing, 4th Ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience, 2002.
  17. Rom WN (ed). Environmental & Occupational Medicine, 3rd Ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, 1998.
  18. Rosenstock L, Cullen MR (eds). Textbook of Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1994.
  19. Sullivan JB, Krieger GR (eds). Clinical Environmental Health and Toxic Exposures. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001.
  20. TDR  Ryan RP, Terry CE (eds). Toxicology Desk Reference: The Toxic Exposure and Medical Monitoring Index, 4th Ed. Washington DC: Taylor & Francis, 1997.
  21. TLVs and BEIs  Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents & Biological Exposure Indices. Cincinnati: ACGIH, 2003.
  22. Wald PH, Stave GM (eds). Physical and Biological Hazards of the Workplace, 2nd Ed. New York: Wiley Interscience, 2002.
  23. Wallach J, Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests, 5th Ed. Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1992.
  24. Weeks JL, Levy BS, Wagner GR (eds). Preventing Occupational Disease and Injury. Washington DC: APHA, 1991.
  25. Zenz C, Dickerson BO, Horvath EP (eds). Occupational Medicine, 3rd Ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 1994.

Journals & Monographs

  1. ACGIH  Documentation of the Threshold Limit Values and Biological Exposure Indices, 7th Ed. Cincinnati: ACGIH Worldwide, 2001.
  2. Mullan RJ, Murthy LI. Occupational Sentinel Health Events: An Up-Dated List for Physician Recognition and Public Health Surveillance. Am J Ind Med 1991;19:775-799.

Other Web Sites

  1. ACGIH Publications
  2. APHA Publications
  3. BC Cancer Agency Cancer Risk Factors
  4. Crossroads by the National Safety Council
  5. CFR  Code of Federal Regulations
  6. EHSfreeware  Environmental Health & Safety Software
  7. IARC  List of IARC Evaluations
  8. ICD-9  International Classification of Diseases, ICD-9-CM, 6th Edition
  9. NAICS North American Industry Classification System
  10. OEM Press Publications
  11. SIC  Standard Industrial Codes Search
  12. SOC  Standard Occupational Classification System

Words highlighted in bold are reference tags used throughout the Haz-Map database.



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