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Document ID (ISN)58280
CIS number 92-1290
ISBN(s) 92-843-0052-5
Year 1991
Convention or series no.
Title Hazardous substances: Safety in transport and warehousing
Original title Gefährliche Arbietsstoffe: Sicherheit bei Transport und Lagerung - 14. Internationales Kolloquium [in German]
Bibliographic information International Section of the ISSA for the Prevention of Occupational Risks in the Chemical Industry, Gaisbergstrasse 11, D-W-6900 Heidelberg, Germany, 1991. 295p. Illus. Bibl.ref.
Abstract Proceedings of the 14th international symposium on the prevention of occupational risks in the chemical industry: safety in transport and warehousing of hazardous substances held in Frankfurt, Germany, 10-12 June 1991. Topics covered include: in-plant transport (safety of chemical containers; tank transport of hazardous goods; cleaning of tank wagons, tanker trucks and transport containers; loading and unloading of liquid hazardous goods); transport outside the plant (response to transport accidents in the USA, Switzerland and Germany; evaluation of product properties; safety superstructures and safety containers; road transport risks and improvement possibilities; psychophysiological aspects of the transport of hazardous materials; review and analysis of transportation accidents); warehousing (guidelines for safe warehousing of hazardous materials; combined storage of chemicals). Only abstracts (in German, English and French) are provided for many of the communications.
Descriptors (primary) occupational safety; dangerous substances; chemical industry; warehousing; rail transport; road transport; sea transport; transport of materials
Descriptors (secondary) occupational accidents; conference; analysis of accident causes; Netherlands; USA; neuropsychic stress; Switzerland; Germany (Federal Republic of); radioactive substances; piping; harbours; maintenance; tank wagons; tank trucks; transport containers; storage; loading and unloading; hazard evaluation; emergency organization; pollution control; classification systems; chlorine
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Transport and communications
Broad subject area(s) Chemical safety
Browse category(ies) Transport of materials
Chemical industry
Storage and warehousing
Rail transportation
Water transportation
Road transportation