Asbestos Information for Fire Departments
Author | : Dottie Boyd |
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Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 2018 |
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Author | : Dottie Boyd |
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Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 2018 |
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Author | : Rachel Maines |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-08-30 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0813570239 |
For much of the industrial era, asbestos was a widely acclaimed benchmark material. During its heyday, it was manufactured into nearly three thousand different products, most of which protected life and property from heat, flame, and electricity. It was used in virtually every industry from hotel keeping to military technology to chemical manufacturing, and was integral to building construction from shacks to skyscrapers in every community across the United States. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, this once popular mineral began a rapid fall from grace as growing attention to the serious health risks associated with it began to overshadow the protections and benefits it provided. In this thought-provoking and controversial book, Rachel Maines challenges the recent vilification of asbestos by providing a historical perspective on Americans’ changing perceptions about risk. She suggests that the very success of asbestos and other fire-prevention technologies in containing deadly blazes has led to a sort of historical amnesia about the very risks they were supposed to reduce. Asbestos and Fire is not only the most thoroughly researched and balanced look at the history of asbestos, it is also an important contribution to a larger debate that considers how the risks of technological solutions should be evaluated. As technology offers us ever-increasing opportunities to protect and prevent, Maines urges that learning to accept and effectively address the unintended consequences of technological innovations is a growing part of our collective responsibility.
Author | : Steven Markowitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Asbestos in building |
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Author | : Kirk B. Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2012 |
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This research has enabled the Orange County Fire Authority to develop new procedures for internal sampling, with local and out-of-state decontamination options identified. Results from this research may be found useful to other fire departments and industries facing similar concerns. Recommended were offered for the implementation of the new procedures and for future work to continue to improve firefighter safety and survival.
Author | : |
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Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Fire extinction |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Administrative procedure |
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Author | : Dale Keyes |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 1998-05 |
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ISBN | : 078814314X |
Provides guidance on controlling asbestos-containing materials (ACM) found in buildings. Provides a current summary of data on exposure to airborne asbestos; gives survey procedures for determining if ACM is present in buildings; explains how to establish a special operations and maintenance program in a building found to contain asbestos; reviews technical issues confronted when assessing the potential for exposure to airborne asbestos, in particular indoor settings; suggests a structured process for selecting a particular course of action, and much more. Commonly referred to as the Blue Book.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Fire prevention |
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Author | : California. Asbestos Assessment Task Force |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Asbestos |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Asbestos |
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