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Handbook for Vigilance in the Chemical and Biohazard Environments

Handbook for Vigilance in the Chemical and Biohazard Environments


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Assessment and management of chemical and biohazard risk requires an understanding of risks in the laboratory, the environment, and the community. This handbook provides guidance on best management practices to help prevent costly oversights and dangers in practice, in industrial and scientific settings. It offers tools to actively avoid ill effects by addressing complacency, promoting good laboratory ethics, and encouraging proactive strategies to minimize risk. This handbook examines the safety culture of chemicals in a laboratory setting, simultaneously serving both as a proactive management exercise and as a means of preventing costly oversights and dangers in practice.

Key Features:

  • Comprehensive resource for concepts, issues and competencies in the management of laboratory design and safety, chemical security, and biohazard security.
  • In line with the principles of the WHO Good Laboratory Practice Handbook, this handbook has integrated regulation and quality improvement into the text.
  • Offers tools to actively avoid negative effects by addressing complacency, good laboratory ethic, and proactive strategies to minimize risk.
  • Examines the safety culture of chemicals and other consumables in a laboratory setting, serving as a proactive management key for workers and users.
  • Re-examines laboratory design, physical and materials management, and system designs to minimize hazardous consequences.


Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: OVERVIEW OF THE CHEMICAL AND BIOHAZARD ENVIRONMENT. Chapter 2: ROLE OF LABORATORIES IN SCIENCE CURRICULA DELIVERY. Chapter 3: LABORATORY SAFETY AND SECURITY MANAGEMENT. Chapter 4: COMPREHENSIVE LABORATORY SAFETY GUIDES. Chapter 5: EVALUATION OF CHEMICAL SECURITY STATUS. Chapter 6: MANAGEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN AND BIOHAZARD RISKS. Chapter 7: EXPOSURE TO ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: A SCOPING REVIEW. Chapter 8: REGULATORY CLASSIFICATION OF HAZARDOUS AGENTS
chapter 9 CHEMICAL SECURITY IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY: A FOCUS ON KENYA AND SOMALIA. Chapter 10: "REGULATION OF THE HANDLING, SAFETY AND SECURITY OF
HERBAL MEDICINES; THE CASE OF CHINA ". Chapter 11: INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT AND CHEMICAL INSECURITY IN THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT. Chapter 12: MANAGEMENT AND REGULATION OF CHEMICAL LABORATORY PRACTICE IN INDIA. Chapter 13: DESIGN FEATURES OF AN AFFORDABLE, QUALITY LABORATORY. Chapter 14: GENERAL DESIGN AND LAYOUT OF A LABORATORY. Chapter 15: LABORATORY OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT. Chapter 16: MANAGEMENT OF LABORATORY INVENTORIES & WASTE



About the Author :

Dr. Maima is Associate Professor of Pharmacy and the Dean of the School of Pharmacy, Maseno University, Kenya. He holds a PhD in Community Health and Development and Master of Pharmacy in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Analysis. He is a former Dean and Program Leader of the School of Pharmacy & Health Sciences at the United States International University-Africa. He is a fellow of the Centre for Effective Global Action (CEGA) of the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) and the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID). He is also a Trained PhD supervisor.

Maima is a pharmaceutical chemist and analyst, public health specialist and epidemiologist, implementation research scientist, registered pharmacist in Kenya, and Good Standing Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya. His other current and past memberships include the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), the Experts/Specialization Committee, the Training and Assessment Technical Committee of the Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Kenya, the board of management of the National Quality Control Laboratories, and the Ministerial Committee that prepared the Kenya National Pharmaceutical Policy (KNPP) of 2010. He is also the current President of the Association of Pharmacy Schools of Kenya (APSK) and the Editor-in-Chief of the Pharmaceutical Journal of Kenya.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781041048527
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 364
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1041048521
  • Publisher Date: 11 May 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 779 gr


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