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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 19244 |
| CIS number |
73-215 |
| Year |
1972 |
| Convention or series no. |
Laboratory Animal Handbooks No.5
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| Author(s) |
Seamer J. |
| Title |
Safety in the animal house |
| Bibliographic information |
Laboratory Animals Ltd., 7 Warwich Court, London WC1R 5DP, United Kingdom, Sep. 1972. 100p. 191 ref. |
| Abstract |
This handbook examines safety and health hazards associated with work in animal breeding houses and in laboratories where experimental animals are employed. Chapters are devoted to: general hazards (the working environment, services and equipment, appointment of safety officers, first-aid treatment, health requirements of workers, fire precautions, possible emergency situations); hazards from animals (risk of bites and infection, dangers associated with specific laboratory animals); hazards and prevention of experimental infections; chemical agents (entry routes to the body, carcinogen hazards and precautions); radiation hazards; codes of practice (their importance, compilation and content concerning buildings, personnel, personal protection and hygiene, animal management and quarantine) and the administration of animal house safety. Curent legislation in the United Kingdom relating to work with laboratory animals is discussed in the last chapter. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
occupational safety; experimental animals; laboratory work |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
occupational hygiene |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Subject(s) |
Chemicals, plastics and rubber
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Animal hazards
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