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Employers with 11 or more employees must maintain "Log and Summary of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses." throughout the year and post it every year in February. The form is to be displayed wherever notices to employees are usually posted. Get the 300, 300A, 301 Forms here free: as PDF (352 KB) (Then click the printer icon to print) or Excel (150 KB). Get all OSHA other forms, posters and instructions here. For those looking for the 100 / 200 forms? They're history! Find out what happened here. | |
In alphabetical order by subject. Note: Pages designed for the general public are preceded by an asterisk - * - the other pages are more technical or regulatory pages of more interest to EHS professionals.
- * Aflatoxin (typically in peanut butter)
- * Acid Rain (overview, regs and publications)
- Acronyms for environmental health and safety issues
- Acronyms, terms and links to for Superfund, CERCLA and related agencies
- Air pollution
- * Smog, Ozone and Air Pollution - guide and current local conditions
- Free publications about air pollution and your health
- *
Air regs, issues, guidance
- * Clean Air Act overview
- * Frequently asked questions about air pollution
- Guidance Manuals and other free downloads
- Fact sheets
- CAA Operating Permits Guidance, Links & Downloads
- Memos
- State Agency contact information
- Federal Register notices
- CAA Operating Permit Forms
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New Source Performance Standards (NSPS)
and Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) - Clean Air Act 112r requirements
- All about AP-42 Air Emission Factors (Free software here)
- * Air -
Indoor air quality
- * Sick building syndrome
- * Alphabetized list of free guides and resources about indoor air quality issues
- * Free Indoor Air Quality Publications from the EPA and Other Agencies
- * Even More Free Indoor Air Quality Publications from the EPA and Other Agencies
- * Free Indoor Air Quality Telephone Hotlines and Resources
- Allergy information
- * Dust mites in your bedding
- * Cockroaches and allergies
- * Fungi and allergies
- * Pollen Calendar A very useful website to tell you what is blooming when in your area! Works anywhere in the world.
- * Allergy and allegan glossary If you can name the allergy, pollen or allergan, it, it is listed here
- * Alzheimer's Disease and aluminum
- Analytical
- Animal Waste - issues, resources, links
- * Anthrax
- * Ants in the home and yard - and pesticides
- *
Asbestos in the home - Overview Information, health effects, background
- * Where Can I Find Asbestos And When Can It Be A Problem?
- * How To Identify Materials That Contain Asbestos
- * Asbestos Exposure: Questions and Answers
- *
What Should Be Done About Asbestos In The Home?
includes:- How To Manage An Asbestos Problem
- Asbestos Do's And Don'ts For The Homeowner
- * In California: Asbestos in the home and Workplace in California - what to do
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Asbestos Professionals: Who Are They And What Can They Do?
includes:- If You Hire A Professional Asbestos Inspector
- Selecting a laboratory to analyze the samples
- If You Hire A Corrective-Action Contractor
- Laboratories Accredited to Analyze Samples for Asbestos
- * Asbestos shingles on your house
- * Asbestos-related
diseases:: Overview of Mesothelioma and Asbestos
- * Mesothelioma: Facts and Resources - symptoms, treatment, etc.
- * Looking for a Mesothelioma lawyrer?
- * Asbestos regulations
- * FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
- * Asbestos resource links
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Asbestos Main Page, for EHS professionals
- Quick summary of asbestos in the workplace - overview and requirements
- Asbestos Federal Register notices
- T he 1970's and 1980's asbestos usage bans
- Asbestos training materials
- Laboratories Accredited to Analyze Samples for Asbestos
- * Asbestos publications
- Asbestos OSHA self-inspection list for companies (NOT for homes!)
- Respiratory protection programs
- * Aspartame (Nutrasweet), diet drinks and your health
- Assessments - environmental site assessments, Phase I and II's, compliance assessments, etc., and some excellent guides to download.
- * Asthma
- Auditing - Environmental auditing, state and EPA policies regarding audits.
- Automobiles
- Choosing and Maintaining an Automobile - Environmental Factors and Information to Consider in Choosing Your Next Car or Operating Your Present Car (including fuel economy charts)
- * Chronology of automobile emission reduction efforts in the U.S.
- * Additional documents on emission standards for cars and light trucks
- * Information on the Tier 2 standards
- * Alternative Fuels for Automobiles
- Environmental compliance information for the automobile service stations and repair shops
- Automotive compliance guides and publications (free)
- Environmental compliance information for the auto recyclers and junk yards
- Safety issues in an auto shop: " Managing Worker Health and Safety: An Auto Refinish Shop Success Story"
- * Bacteria - disease
- Battery recycling and disposal
- Bedbugs - everything you need to know about these blood-sucking pests, and why you should take precautions now.
- Beef
- Benzene in soft drinks - results from an FDA study.
- * Biosolids (sewage and sludge as fertilizer)
- * Bird Fever
- * Birth Weight (low) from living near a landfill
- * Bleach - using bleach to destroy bacteria and biotoxins
- Bottled drinking water
- * Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease)
- * Breast cancer
- Britain Environmental
- * Caffeine and health effects (on fertility, etc.)
- * Cancer (unusually high number of exposure in area)
- * Candles - burning candles affects indoor air quality
- * Carcinogens - list of cancer-causing compounds - also see cancer above
- * Carpet Allergy
- Cell phones, Cancer and Brain Tumors
- * Cellular Communications Towers and Cancer
- CERCLA - Superfund
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Chemical Information - MSDS and data direct from chemical manufacturers - a super guide to manufacturer's MSDS sites.
- Formaldehyde
- * Chemical information (composition, properties, health and envi data) from OSHA
- * Chemical pollution fact sheets on many chemicals
- Chemical storage guidelines - complete guidelines to use in your school, lab or facility
- * Chemical Sensitivity also called MCS - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
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Children - issues affecting your children
- * Resources to teach kids about the environment
- * More resources from the EPA for kids and teachers
- * Studies of the effects of pollution on children
- * Effects of Indoor Air Pollution on Children
- * Tips about lead exposure and children
- * Teaching kids about Superfund and pollution
- Teen Worker Rights
- Chemical wastes (see Hazardous Waste)
- Chemical Waste Management, Inc.
- Are you a former WMI employee looking for your pension?
- trying to locate other WMI alumni? Email us!
- Christmas trees - natural, living, rooted trees and choose-and-cut tree farms
- Clean Air Act - see Air
- * Cleaning Products
- Clip art, photos and graphics (all free)
- Computers - household electronic waste
- Contact lens safety: FDA's Investigation of Serious Eye Infections Associated With Soft Contact Lens Use and Contact Lens (April 10, 2006)
- Contingency planning and emergency response, also see Emergency response, below
- * Cosmetics and your health
- * Consumer Health Information
- * Consumer protection
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Consumer product safety information
- * Consumer Product Labeling initiative - What does the label mean?
- * Paint - epoxy, urea-formaldehyde, paint fumes, etc.
- * Cockroaches and allergies
- Cookware: What types of pots and pans are safest to cook in?
- * Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
- * Crimes - polluters
- * Cryptosporidiosis (in drinking water)
- * Dams - are they worth the costs?
- DfE - Designing for the environmentDfE
- Publications - The DfE Publications page links to info on publications for each program area of DfE, to online documents, and to order info for available hard copies.
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DOL - Dept of Labor-Required Posters - download them here, free
- * Diet drinks, Aspartame (Nutrasweet) and your health
- Disease
- * Disasters
- Disease
- Dockets EPA (information related to the rulemaking process. A Docket is composed of Federal Register Notices, the rules, and supporting documentation for the rules)
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DOT - Transportation Main Page (start here if you are unsure)
- Also see "Transportation of hazardous materials" (below)
- DOT regulations
- DOT News
- DOT Federal Register notices
- How to Comply with DOT Hazardous Material Transportation Regulations
- DOT FMCSA permit applications, forms, spill incident report forms, training guides, etc.
- Publications & Guidance
- DOT contacts, links, phone numbers for information and issues
- Training resources to meet DOT requirements
- FAQs - Questions and answers about hazardous material; transportation issues
- State DOT agencies - links & phone numbers
- DOT and NAFTA
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Drinking Water
- * Drinking water information: bottled water or Tap water? Which is safer? (There are many related pages on drinking water here)
- * Frequently asked questions
- * How to choose a bottled drinking water - a guide for your taste and safety
- Is your tap water safe?
- Descriptions of the contaminants that are most commonly found in drinking water (both bottled and tap waters).
- Fact sheets
- * Tips to make your water at home safer and cleaner
- * Check out the quality of YOUR local tap water!
- Certified labs that test drinking water
- * National Drinking water standards (list of specific contaminants and levels)
- Overview of Regulations and standards
- State bottled drinking water regulations
- Training materials- Want to obtain your own Drinking Water operator's license to get a job in the industry? Here are free downloadable training materials.
- * Certified labs that test drinking water
- Dry cleaning
- * Dry Cleaning Dangers for the general public
- * FAQs about the safety of dry cleaning chemicals
- Regulations and safety issues - how to comply - for owners and operators of dry cleaners
- Dry Cleaning Proposed and Promulgated Rules: National Emission Standards for Perchloroethylene Dry Cleaning Facilities
- * Dust mites - those microscopic bugs that live in your bed, eating your skin and hair!
Earth Day - April 22nd, every year! Click for more information!
- * Earthquakes
- The economics of environmental issues
- Educational Resources
- Free Classroom materials for both teachers and students
- Kids (Ages 4-10, Pre-K through 4th grade) U.S. EPA Environmental Kids Club - Projects, Games, Art and Helpful Tips
- Students (Grades 5-8) U.S. EPA Student Center - Environmental Concepts, Activities and Tips
- High School (Grades 9-12) U.S. EPA High School Environmental Center
- Teachers (for classroom and non-traditional educators) Environmental Education Center - Basic Environmental Concepts and Teaching Aids
- Office of Environmental Education Grants, training, fellowships, and the President's Environmental Youth Awards
- Researchers Technical Documents, Research Funding and More
- * Eggs (smell of rotten eggs)
- * EMF - Electromagnetic Radiation and your health
- * Employee rights under OSHA
- Employment rights and rules: see "worker rights"
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Emergency Response & Spills
- Oil Spills
- Emergency Response Resources for Terrorism - Chemical Agents
- Hazardous material & Chemical Spills
How to respond to Emergencies - Guide
- ERG: The Emergency Response Guidebook from the DOT
(This is the little pocket-sized book with the UN/NA numbers and dangers)-
Full Version of the ERG2008 (2.8M)
(PDF) Print your own FREE copy. - ERG2008 State Coordinators List
- DOD Point of Contact for the ERG 2008
- Federal Agencies Point of Contact for the ERG 2008
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Summary of Changes from ERG2000
(PDF)
- Search the ERG by Name of Material
- Search the ERG by Identification Number
- Search the Table of Initial Isolation and Protective Action Distances
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Commercial Suppliers of the ERG and more - where to buy (197K)
of:
- Emergency Response Guidebook 2008 (ERG2008)
- DOT Chart 12 (Marking, Labeling, and Placarding Guides)
- Sources of Hazardous Materials Regulations and Other Publications
- Publications Containing International Requirements
- Available Documents and Files
- Spanish version of the 2004 Emergency Response Guide
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Full Version of the ERG2008 (2.8M)
- * Endocrine Disruptors And Human Health
- * Endotoxin Exposures (in Rural Settings and its Effects on Respiratory Disease)
Enforcement
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Enforcement of environmental regulations and laws, how to report a potential violation, lists of violators and guidance documents
- 2009 Pollutors and environmental criminals - actual summaries of convicted companies and individuals
- 2008 polluter cases
- 2007 polluter cases
- 2006 polluter cases
- 2005 polluter cases
- 2004 polluter cases
- 2003 polluter cases
- 2002 polluter cases (Note: EPA's online files stop at 2003)
- 2001 - The EPA didn't save them!
- 2000 polluter cases
- 1999 polluter cases
- Search your area for environmental crimes
- Enforcement publications
- Enforcement of Food and Product Safety laws and regulations
- Environmental causes of disease (both man-made and natural)
- Environmental Impact Statements (EIS)
- Environmental Professionals resource pages:
- Job networking and information for those already in the environmental and safety fields
- * Environmental Performance information - How safe and clean are the companies in YOUR community? Find out here, for free!
- * Environmental Policy for Native Americans on the Reservation
- Environmental Laws and Regulations (HTML)- Title 40 CFR<
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EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contacts, links, phone
numbers and downloads- * Comprehensive links to the EPA and other environmentally related federal web sites
- * Alphabetized list of ALL EPA subjects (may take a few minutes to load!)
- EPA News & Federal Register (new regulations) notices
- EPA/OSWER publications (free download here)
- * U.S. EPA Regional offices contact information
* EPA Employee locator: Locate the email, phone and mailing address of any employee of the U.S. EPA
- * EPA accomplishments (self-proclaimed)
- * Environmental laws that give the EPA it's legal support
- EPA environmental regulations - Title 40 of CFR - full text here
- * EPA's budget and work force - current and past
- * Free fact sheets, publications, brochures from the EPA
- EPA Test Methods - including SW-846 - to download free
- EPA Dockets (information related to the rulemaking process. A Docket is composed of Federal Register Notices, the rules, and supporting documentation for the rules)
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EPCRA - Community Right-to-Know - includes the Form R reporting forms to download, guidance documents, and free software. Also see
TRI below
- EPCRA Guide - detailed guide to the RTK program
- * Epoxy Paint Fumes
- * Ergonomics resources
- Exercise and Fitness: The Fitness and Health Science.org website provides loads of free information, based on years of research at major universities, and the experience of the university trainers, the information and fitness guides are easy to understand, easy to get in shape - just follow the free guide, completely illustrated and free workout routine and record sheet
- Exit requirements in the workplace - see the regs and guidance here!
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1910.36 - Design and construction requirements for exit routes.
See an interpretation letter here
See full
- Family Health Issues
- * Senior citizens health issues
- Kids - see * children, above
- Farmers
- FDA: Food and Drug Administration
- Federal Government
- * Federal Regulations - environmental regs and laws
- Federal Register Notices & News -all
- FIFRA - Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
& Rodenticide Act - also see "Pesticides" under letter P - Filters
- Air filters / purifiers
- Water filters / purifiers
- *Fire Safety
- * Fisteria (actually, Pfiesteria) a parasite in seafood
- Fitness and exercise: The Fitness and Health Science.org website provides loads of free information, based on years of research at major universities, and the experience of the university trainers, the information and fitness guides are easy to understand, easy to get in shape - just follow the free guide, completely illustrated and free workout routine and record sheet
- Grounding requirements (OSHA / NFPA 30) for flammable liquids
- * Floods:
- Fluorescent light flicker, and related health issues, such as headaches,
- Fluorescent Light disposal
- * Foam building insulation
- * Food additives - what are they, which are dangerous, etc. also see Food Supplements
- Food Chain issues - and man's interdependence with nature
- * Food issues
- Organic - What are the standards for organic foods? from www.pickyourown.org
- Sources for safer food - resources
- Food Irradiation
- Food Poisoning
- *
Food Safety
- * Consumer advice, Q&A and Where to report problems about food safety
- * General tips for food safety in the kitchen
- * Tips for retail businesses
- * Reporting Food Poisoning
- * Free publications
- Kids
- * FAQs - Frequently asked food safety questions
- * Food borne diseases
- * Food and FDA News
- * Food safety alerts
- * Food safety travel alerts and tips
- * Government agencies for food safety - state and federal
- * Search the FDA website
- * Food inspection (government)
- * U.S. Food Code
- Specific food issues
- Beef
- * This one is just amazing: Cattle are being fed chicken manure - legally!
- * Mad Cow Disease
- * Hot dogs & Listeriosis
- Poultry
- * Turkey - bacteria in them
- * Turkey tips - safe cooking, thawing, storing
- * Does eating turkey make you sleepy? (tryptophan)
- Vegetables
- Beef
- * Food safety information for kids - lots for children here!
- * Other related topics
- Food Supplements
- * Forests
- * Formaldehyde - and indoor air quality, your health
- Forms:
- * Freon - exposure to, and your health
- * Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the EPA, Environmental issues and EHSO
- Fruits - where to find a "pick your own" farm - www.pickyourown.org
- * Frog (deformities)
- Fuel economy guides for automobiles sold in the U.S. and further information
- Funeral Homes and environmental compliance
- * Fungus (fatal in infants)
- * Garden environmental tips and precautions
- * Gasoline - MTBE additive health hazards
- Generators of Haz Waste
- * Georgia - State of GA forms that you may need (such as ordering a birth certificate)
- Georgia, State of - DNR, EPD, environmental and regulatory information, forms, etc
- *
Global Warming - All About It!
- * Emissions data
- * Climate, man and global warming, explained
- * Trends
- *Impacts on Health or Wildlife and Water Resources
- * Free Publications
- * Links
- * EPA pages on global warming
- * Global warming news from LawPublish
- * Greenhouse Gases and CO2 (Is it Worth a Dam?)
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Government search engines* - find ANY government regulation in the CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) here!
- Contact lists - look by agency name (EPA, DOT, OSHA)
- Hotlines
- Government environmental web sites, listed alphabetically
- All U.S. government environmental websites sorted alphabetically by topic or subject area
- All EPA Topics and major EPA web pages, sorted alphabetically
- Alphabetized links to EPA offices, programs, and subject areas
- Links to all Government web sites (not just environmental web sites)
- Great Britain - Environmental
- Grounding requirements (OSHA / NFPA 30) for flammable liquids
- Groundwater Contamination
- * Groundwater quality issues, overview, facts and FAQs
- * Halogen
- * Hamburgers - and e. coli, cooking safety
- * Hanta Virus - the deadly disease carried in rodent droppings
- * Hazardous Chemicals (Top 20 - courtesy of ATSDR)
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HazMat - Hazardous Materials - MSDS searches, chemical compound
information, etc. including used oil. Also see "Emergency response", above- Free guides and publications
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Hazardous Materials Safety (HAZMAT)—Emergency Response Guidelines
Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLs)
EPA web site describes dangers from exposure to airborne chemicals and recommends guideline levels for short-term exposures to airborne hazardous substances.
- * Hazardous waste - General information - - what is it - from solid waste to hazardous chemicals - all here
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Hazardous Waste - RCRA - Detailed information and regulations
- FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions
- General
- Monthly RCRA/Superfund/EPCRA Hotline Reports - Q&A, Facts, Statistics, new publications
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Identification of haz waste (how to determine whether you have a hazardous waste, under EPA regulations)
- Publications and guides to identification
- SW-846 - Test methods for hazardous waste and "Solid" waste, guidance and download
- TCLP (Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure) and the Characteristic waste determination (the D codes list) Guide , and free download of EPA Test Method 1311 - TCLP,
- TCLP FAQs - Questions and Answers
- Guidance memos related to identifying HW from the EPA
- Guidance memos about characteristic wastes from the EPA
- Mercury and other lamps
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Generators of Haz Waste
- Small quantity generators
- Large quantity generators
- Required notifications
- Guide to manifesting and shipping hazardous wastes (including the manifest forms and regs)
- Guide to the generator's self-inspection checklist
- Generator's self-inspection checklist
- RCRA, Superfund, and EPCRA Hotline Training Module: Introduction to Generators
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TSDFs (Treatment, Storage and/or Disposal Facilities, including landfills)
- Frequently Asked Questions about Managing, Transporting, Cleaning Up, Disposing of Hazardous Wastes
- Batteries: Battery Recycling Facilities in the United States
- Deep well injection: Commercial Hazardous Waste Deep Well Injection Facilities
- Fluorescent Light Recycling Facilities - map and contact information
- Incinerators: Commercial Hazardous Waste Incinerators Contact Information
- Kilns and Fuels: Hazardous Waste Fuel Blending and Cement Kilns
- Landfills: map and information about the hazardous waste landfills in the United States
- Recycling Facilities, Listed Alphabetically by Material Handled
- Solvent Recyclers - Facility Details by State
- Transportation of Hazardous Wastes - Regulations and Licensed Companies
- Used oil: Commercial Used Oil Recyclers Facility Information and Details by State
- Land Ban requirements (Part 268, land disposal)
- The Universal Waste Rule fact sheet
- HWIR - Hazardous Waste Identification Rule
- * Health Information - More links and resources here than you can imagine!
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Health & Safety (main page)
- Overview of OSHA requirements
- Contact information:
- Contact information for regional OSHA offices
- Contact information to State OSHA offices
-
OSHA, Federal & State Health Department Links
contacts, links, etc. (quite a lot here)
- OSHA Fact Sheets - free to download here
- OSHA publications
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OSHA News & FR notices - Back to 1985.
Search & Download any notice - PPE (personal protective equipment) Guide
- Respiratory Protection Standard (current reg)
- Asbestos
- Fire Safety
- Home environmental health & safety survey!
- * Hot dogs, luncheon meats and Listeriosis
- Hotlines: Free Telephone Hotlines:
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House and Home
- * Asbestos shingles on your house
- * Battery disposal for households, homes and individuals
- * Reducing household electronic waste
- * Recycling Household electronics - where to go
- * More about how and where to recycle household electronics (computers, tv's etc.)
- * Home Fire Safety Checklist - Is your home safe? Check it out!
- * Free publications about recycling at home
- * Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about recycling at home
- * General tips and guidance
- * Garden environmental tips and precautions
- * Household waste and recycling at home
- * Household hazardous waste - types and disposal methods
- * How and where to recycle household electronics (computers, tv's etc.)
- * Household Products
- *
Indoor Air Pollution
- * Introduction to IAQ (Indoor Air Quality)
- * Alphabetized list of free guides and resources about indoor air quality issues
- * An indoor air quality study
- * Effects of Indoor Air Pollution on Children
- * Sick building syndrome - indoor air quality and your health
- * Free Indoor Air Quality Publications from the EPA and Other Agencies
- * Even More Free Indoor Air Quality Publications from the EPA and Other Agencies
- * Free Indoor Air Quality Telephone Hotlines and Resources
- Industrial hygiene:
- Industry-specific Guidance - from Air transportation to Wood furniture
- * Infectious diseases
- *Insect repellents - Deet: effectiveness, safety for use against mosquitoes
- Insulation (house, building)
- International Environmental and Safety Affairs* - Everything from the Basel Convention to Whaling is here - and there are resources and links for continents to countries from Africa to Ukraine. We're adding more information from each region and country every week.
- Irradiated food
- ISO14001 - Environmental Management Systems overview, downloads, manuals and links
- Jobs for Environmental and safety professionals
- Resources for job and information networking for environmental health and safety professionals and information
- Looking for jobs in the environmental sector? Check these openings and environmental jobs web sites.
- Want to work for the US EPA? Check EPA job openings here.
- Journals:
- Kids Pages
- Labor rules - see DOL, employment and OSHA
- Lab Packs - Information about packing and removing small (less than 10 gallons each) containers of hazardous chemicals, cleaners, paints, etc. for disposal.
- Labpack firms - companies that pack and dispose of lab chemicals and other small quantities
- Laboratories
- * Landfill (contamination)
- * Laws: environmental regulations and laws
- * Lead Poisoning in the home and community
- * Legionnaire's Disease
- Links to the Federal Government
- Links to related (and unrelated, but useful) sites. Eg., environmental organizations, weather, affiliates, etc.
- * Listeria -Hot dogs, luncheon meats and Listeriosis
- * Lyme Disease
- * Mad Cow Disease
- * Magazines: THE comprehensive list of Environmental Magazines and Journals
- * Man-Made Mineral Fibers and health effects - in insulation
- * Maps - Environmental Maps and topographical mapping for the United States, EPA regions and individual states
- Material Safety Data Sheets - see MSDS below
- * Medical Assistance on Environmental Disease
- Mercury recyclers
- * Mercury spills and mercury poisoning
- Mesothelioma: Facts and Resources - symptoms, treatment, etc.
- Miscellaneous
- Mixed Waste Overview (this is wastes which are both hazardous/chemical AND radioactive)
- Molds
- Municipal waste (trash, solid waste)
- * Mothballs
- MSDS: The most complete MSDS list on the internet -
An exhaustive A to Z list of chemical manufacturers and direct links to their Material Safety Data Sheet sites for information about the chemicals in commercial products. If you have a slow connection, try one of these (letter corresponds to the first letter of the manufacturer's name) links instead:
A to D
E to I
J to P
Q to Z
- * MSDS Chemical information (composition, properties, health and envi data) from OSHA databases
- MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) searches and other chemical information
- How to Write an MSDS for Your Company's Product
- * MTBE (gas compound)
- NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act
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News Plus (the latest environmental, safety, and gov't news services, subscriptions, etc.)
- Daily Environmental News, weather and general news from the wire services
- Newsletters & email subscriptions
- EPA News
- Daily Environmental News Stories
- About.com's environmental news
- Federal Register Notices & News
- NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG)
The NPG is a source of general industrial hygiene information on several hundred chemicals/classes for workers, employers, and occupational health professionals. It presents key information and data in abbreviated or tabular form for chemicals or substance groupings (e.g. cyanides, fluorides, manganese compounds) that are found in the work environment.
You can download a free stand-alone HTML version of the NPG compressed as a ZIP file. The ZIP file contains a condensed version of the NPG. All non-Pocket Guide links were removed so that this set of files acts as a "stand-alone" database. These files can be used with a standard web browser or on some mobile devices.-
NIOSH Pocket Guide - PDF version
(6.04 MB)
NIOSH publication number 2005-149
(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing and printing) -
NIOSH Pocket Guide - EXE - npg-only.exe (2 MB)
(Self-extracting zip file for Windows) -
NIOSH Pocket Guide - ZIP - npg-only.zip
(2MB)
(requires WinZip or other unzipping software)
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NIOSH Pocket Guide - PDF version
(6.04 MB)
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Nuclear wastes
- Nuclear wastes and materials - also see radioactive, below
- * State nuclear regulatory agencies links
- * Office: Health & Safety at work
- * Oil:
- Used Oil management for consumers: information, regulations, etc.
- Managing Used Oil: Advice for Small, Medium and Large Businesses
- * Oil Spills
- Organic - What are the standards for organic foods? from www.pickyourown.org
- OSHA -
Main Safety and Health Page
- See Health & Safety (above), Safety (below), PPE below, or Process Safety (below)
- * Overview of OSHA requirements
- OSHA compliance areas, by topic
-
OSHA-Required Posters - download them here, free
- Documents, Forms, Publications:
- OSHA Fact Sheets
- OSHA Forms, including the 300 injury reporting forms - download them here, free <----<-----<-----OSHA Forms <-----<----
- OSHA 100 and 200 forms are no longer valid - find out why here.
- Most commonly requested documents and publications
- Sample OSHA safety plans - free to download and use
- OSHA Sample Safety and Health Program and Plans for Small Businesses
- OSHA Recordkeeping information (also see forms)
- * OSHA publications
- Regulations
- OSHA top 10 violations cited in 2004
- Compliance Guidance and Interpretation
- OSHA Guidance - all free
- OSHA self-inspection checklist - prepare yourself with this!
- OSHA asbestos self-inspection list
- * OSHA compliance interpretations
- OSHA >Memorandums of Understanding >
- Search OSHA Interpretation memos
- OSHA Technical Guidance Manual
- OSHA Technical Links - Don't miss these alphabetized resource links!
- Specific OSHA Programs
- Small business information
- Contact information:
- Employee / Worker rights (under OSHA)
- OSHA Resources
- * Ozone Depletion and the hole in the ozone layer
- * Ozone generators that are sold as air cleaners - An Assessment of Effectiveness and Health Consequences
- * Paint Odor
- * PCBs - Overview Page
- PCB FAQs and Spills
- Free PCB Publications
- List of PCB disposal facilities
- List of PCB storage facilities
- * PCB Megarule
- * PCB Disposal
- * PCB Federal Register Notices (downloads)
- Peanut recalls
- Search for Peanut Containing Product Recalls
- Peanut Containing Product Recall (Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak): Main Page
- Do's and Don'ts During the Peanut Salmonella Outbreak: FDAs Dr. Stephen Sundlof (this is a video file)
- * Perc (perchloroethylene)
- * Hydrogen Peroxide mouth wash
- Perchlorate - dangers in drinking water supplies
- Pesticide information for Consumers
- Pesticide Information for Environmental and Safety Managers
- Pesticide names
- Pesticide fact sheets
- * Fleas
- * Taking Care of your Pet During Flea and Tick Season - Taking care of your pets responsibly includes protecting them from fleas and ticks. Before purchasing and applying pesticide products to pets to control fleas and ticks, there is important information you should know.
- * How to spot counterfeit pet flea and tick products
- * Cats, pregnant women and toxoplasmosis
to search for alternatives
- EPA & OSWER publications (free download here)
- OSHA Publications (free to download here)
- * Radioactive wastes
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Radioactive wastes
- Nuclear waste overview
- Types of radiation
- All About Nuclear Waste Disposal
- Low-level radioactive wastes
- Man-made radiation
- Uranium mining - Uranium mill tailings
- Nuclear waste from weapons production
- Naturally-occurring radioactive waste
- Nuclear emergencies
- Nuclear / radioactive guidance documents
- Government agencies
- How to assess the danger from radiation
- Links to many federal government, scientific and reputable sources of information about radiactive materials
- State nuclear regulatory agencies links
- Mixed Waste Overview (this is wastes which are both hazardous/chemical AND radioactive)
- * Radon and your health
- RCRA - All About the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - the hazardous waste law.
- RCRA Superfund Hotline reports - Loads of questions and answers to hazardous waste issues
- Research:
- Recalls: Recent FDA Product Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts
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Recycling of Wastes
- * Find a recycling center in your area for your old tv, computer, cell phone, batters, washing machine and more
- *How and Where to Recycle Your Old Cell Phone, Smart Phone, PDA and other Mobile Household Electronics
- * Other options for recycling household electronics
- * Recycling at home (general information, facts, stats). Also see House and home
- * Free publications about recycling at home
- * Battery recycling ( for businesses and for households)
- * How and where to recycle old tv (television) sets
- * Reducing household electronic waste
- * Recycling Household electronics - where to go
- * More about how and where to recycle household electronics (computers, tv's etc.)
- * Recycling facts
- Fluorescent Lights
- Mercury Wastes
- Prices of recycled materials
- Add your company to the list of recyclers
- Industrial Waste and Material Exchanges
- Regulations
- All U.S. Federal Regulations - Regulations.gov is the U.S. Government web site that makes it easier for you to participate in Federal rulemaking - an essential part of the American democratic process. On this site, you can find, review, and submit comments on Federal documents that are open for comment and published in the Federal Register, the Government's legal newspaper.
- Safety / OSHA Regulations
- Transportation (DOT) Regulations, other DOT Information
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Regulations - environmental regs and laws
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EPA environmental regulations - Title 40 of CFR - master list. This is a huge page - separate sections below:
- SUBCHAPTER A-- GENERAL
- SUBCHAPTER B-- GRANTS AND FEDERAL ASSISTANCE
- SUBCHAPTER C-- AIR PROGRAMS
- SUBCHAPTER D-- WATER PROGRAMS
- SUBCHAPTER E-- PESTICIDE PROGRAMS
- SUBCHAPTER F-- RADIATION PROTECTION
- SUBCHAPTER G-- NOISE ABATEMENT
- SUBCHAPTER H-- OCEAN DUMPING
- SUBCHAPTER I -- SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTES
- SUBCHAPTER J-- SUPERFUND, EMERGENCY PLANNING, AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW PROGRAMS
- SUBCHAPTER N-- EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS
- SUBCHAPTER O-- SEWAGE SLUDGE
- SUBCHAPTER Q-- ENERGY POLICY
- SUBCHAPTER R--TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT
- SUBCHAPTER U--AIR POLLUTION
- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; UNIFORM NATIONAL DISCHARGE STANDARDS FOR VESSELS OF THE ARMED FORCES - 1700--UNIFORM NATIONAL DISCHARGE STANDARDS FOR VESSELS
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EPA environmental regulations - Title 40 of CFR - master list. This is a huge page - separate sections below:
- Respiratory Protection Pages * - OSHA Regulatory Standard - Intro page
- Overview
- The regulation - 29 CFR 1910.134
- OSHA 1910.134 interpretation memos
- How to select a respirator
- OSHA directive on inspecting respirators
- Training materials
- Free publications and manuals
- Notices and materials in both English and Spanish
- Glossary
- FAQs
- * Ricin and biotoxins
- Right-to-Know (RTK) - also known as, worker right to know, employee hazard communication programs
- Risk Management Plans (RMP)
- Safety Information (also see Health & safety; and OSHA)
- Sample Plans and checklists
- OSHA
- EPA / RCRA
- DOT
- Seminars and conferences
- * Sewage and Sludge (Biosolids)
- Search Engines
- 1. Search this site - your best option, as it includes links to government sites.
- 2. Search government sites, also has capabilities to search the Federal regulations and Federal Register
- 3. Search the Internet
- 4. Search for a book, article, or video at Amazon
- * SIC code list
- * Sick building syndrome - indoor air quality and your health
- Small business information and resources
- Smog, Ozone and Air Pollution
- * Smoking & Secondhand Smoking facts, policies, regulations
- Soft drinks and Sodas:
- * Soil Contamination
- Solid waste - also called municipal waste, trash, rubbish, nonhazardous waste:
- * Spills & Emergency Response - everything you need to know
- *
State environmental and general government contacts, links, address, & numbers for all 50 states; a comprehensive list just updated 2/99!
Other contacts: - * Sun - ultraviolet radiation and your health
- *
Superfund - All about hazardous waste sites
- * Superfund FAQs
- Acronyms, terms and links to related agencies
- * Site Information - find out about a site near you!
- * Superfund publications
- Also see CERCLA above
- Sustainable Development
- Tanks
- * Tattoos
- * Tension Wire - Electric (EMF)
- Tetanus and rust nails
- Terrorism:
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Test Methods - EPA test methods sorted by chemical/name, and for General, Air, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Solid Waste, Water
- SW-846 - Test methods for hazardous waste and "Solid" waste, guidance and download
- Guide to the TCLP (Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure) and the Characteristic waste determination (the D codes list), and free download of EPA Test Method 1311 - TCLP,
- TCLP FAQs - Questions and Answers
- Download other EPA Test Methods HERE.
- * Tetrachloroethylene
- * Tornados
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Toxic Reporting Inventory (TRI)
- Overview
- News, Updates, and New Regulations
- The Comprehensive Guide to EPCRA
- How to use the TRI
- Forms - all the forms you'll need for the July 2000 deadline.
- Free Software - The latest, just-released guidance software
- Guidance documents, including the chemical lists
- Links to government & other EPCRA sites
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Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
Also see "PCBs" and "Asbestos"- Premanufacture Notices (PMN) guidance, forms, etc.
- TSCA regulations and laws
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Training *(required DOT, OSHA, RCRA training)
- Hazwoper (OSHA 40/24/8 hr) Detailed information, regulations, etc. provided about the EPA/OSHA and DOT requirements.
- DOT HM Training
- OSHA Training
- Training materials (general, clip art, etc)
- EPA/OSWER publications (free download here)
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Transportation of Hazardous Materials *
- Hazardous material transportation regulations
- Trucking Safety Standards
- State DOT agencies - links & phone numbers
- FAQs - Questions and answers about hazardous material; transportation issues
- Publications & Guidance
- DOT contacts, links, phone numbers for information and issues and Hazmat transportation links
- Training resources to meet DOT requirements
- FAQs - Questions and answers about hazardous material; transportation issues
- Trash (Solid Waste)
- Trucking Safety Standards
- Turkey
- * Is your turkey safe? (food poisoning from turkey)
- * Turkey tips - safe cooking, thawing, storing
- * Tryptophan - does eating turkey make you sleepy?
- * Ultraviolet radiation and your health
- Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)
- United States Government information and links - see Federal, above
- United Kingdom - Environmental*
- * Used Oil information
- * Used Motor Oil Recycling – Find A Location Near You - Locate the nearest recycling facility or program near you that accepts used motor oil.
- Vegetables - where to find a "pick your own" farm - www.pickyourown.org
- * Violations - How to report environmental violations and pollutors
- * Waste - solid, nonhazardous, hazardous trash - all here
- Waste Management, Inc.
- Are you a former WMI employee looking for your pension?
- trying to locate other WMI Alumni? Email us - we have the list you're looking for!
- Wastewater
- Water & wastewater
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Water: Bottled water or Tap water? Which is safer?
- * Water Treatment Units
- also see the pages above on drinking water
- * Water Pollution - causes and management controls
- * West Nile Virus
- * Wetlands - introduction and fact sheets
- * Wine - sulfites
- * Women's Health, including environmental effects on pregnancy
- Worker Rights - Wages and Breaks
- Worker rights, laws, wages, links to state pages, etc. - Department of Labor
- What Breaks (Rest, Snack, Meals, Smoking, Health, Etc.) Am I Entitled To under FLSA (the Fair Labor Standards Act)?
- The FLSA - Fair Labor Standards Act
- Exemption for Salaried Executive, Administrative, Professional, Computer & Outside Sales Employees Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) - Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay Requirements
- Fact sheets - many free Department of Labor fact sheets on a wide variety of subjects
- Frequently asked questions about wages and benefits
- * Workplace health issues *- how to protect your health at work
- State labor laws and rules - find out about your state here.
- Teen Worker Rights
- Teen work: what may children legally do for work?
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