This book is a glossary of terms and abbreviations used in the Hazardous Materials Response World. It contains definitions for everything from various government and hazardous materials management agencies to WMDs and Terrorist tools to chemical terms to Medical terminology for the effects of exposure to chemicals.

This text is intended to assist Chemical Health and Safety Professionals in preparing for their profession and for the appropriate Certification examinations to validate their training and expertise in the many different areas required to protect workers dealing with hazardous materials in the laboratory, semiworks or chemical production industries and in a research or university setting. This is also intended to be a useful reference to all of the areas that the Chemical Health and Safety Professional needs to protect the employees who rely on them to maintain a safe working environment. The...

Response to Hazardous Materials incidents has changed over the years. If one was a First Responder 20-30 years ago, one had to be concerned about transportation accidents involving hazardous cargoes, fires and hazardous materials and wastes at fixed sites. While many of us were trained in the basics of Weapons of Mass Destruction, it was generally theory and few expected to have to actually respond to an incident involving these materials. Responses to Clandestine Laboratories were not as common and terrorism was something that happened elsewhere and not in the United States. Today the world...