Safety Notables: Information from the Literature

Abstract

A review. This mini-review is broken into two parts. The first part reviews recent articles taken from the literature which address safety issues. This section is not intended to be all-inclusive of the safety literature,nor should the information presented be used to make decisions regarding safety without reading the full text of the article. The intent is to give a flavor of the issues facing other chemists and engineers and how they are solving these problems. In the second part several major industrial accidents whose aftermath has impacted public perceptions and influenced the regulatory environment through enhancements to process safety stds. are discussed. [on SciFinder(R)]