Association for the advancement of automotive medicine annual meeting: Baltimore, Maryland, October 2–4, 1989. Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Des Plaines, IL, 1989. 429 pp.

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 159 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0001-4575
• DOI: 10.1016/0001-4575(90)90073-t

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and much of the material covered in this book are limited to chemical accidents; nuclear accidents, transport accidents, and other examples of occupational or environmental hazard receive little attention.

After three introductory chapters, there are three groups of chapters devoted to process and plant accidents, dispersion, and hazard and risk assessment respectively. The book is written in textbook format, with each chapter concluding with a summary listing the highlights of the chapter and a set of problems to be solved by readers.

Although chemical and other kinds of accident occurring in other countries and at other times have been used as examples, much of the discussion, especially of legislation, regulation, and regulatory programs, is limited to the United States.