Author: U.S. Coast Guard
Publisher: ProStar Publications, Inc.
Keywords: shipment, water, bulk, guide, data, chemical
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 1990-11-10
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 1577853318
ISBN-13: 9781577853312

Chemical Data Guide for Bulk Shipment by Water: Marine Technical and Hazardous Materials Division. The data in this guide was compiled from a number of sources in the interest of safe water movement of bulk chemicals. Hopefully, by providing key chemical information in an easy to use form, this guide can help prevent or at least minimize the harmful effects of chemical accidents on the waterways.

Author: Roy Parker
Publisher: Policy Press
Keywords: canada, children, poor, shipment, uprooted
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 2010-01-07
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1847426689
ISBN-13: 9781847426680

Some 80,000 British children - many of them under the age of ten - were shipped from Britain to Canada by Poor Law authorities and voluntary bodies during the 50 years following Confederation in 1867. How did this come about? What were the motives and methods of the people involved in both countries? Why did it come to an end? What effects did it have on the children involved and what eventually became of them? These are the questions Roy Parker explores in a meticulously researched work that brings together economic, political, social, medical, legal, administrative and religious aspects of t

Author:
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Keywords: hazardous, materials, identificat, special, research, board, shipments, transportation, assessment, information, shipment, emergency, response, committee, national
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 1993-04
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0309054214
ISBN-13: 9780309054218

"TRB Special Report 239 - Hazardous Materials Shipment Information For Emergency Response" examines the feasibility and necessity of a central reporting system and computerized telecommunications data center that is capable of receiving, storing, and retrieving data concerning all daily shipments of hazardous materials, and that can provide information to facilitate responses to accidents and incidents involving the transportation of hazardous materials. Federal law defines a hazardous material as any substance or material in a quantity and form that may pose an unreasonable risk to health, sa