APPENDIX Information on Locations ofInternational Poison Control Centres and

Supplementary Resource Documents

The International Programme on Chemical Safety maintains an updated listingof the locations throughout the world of poison control centres. Addresses(and in most cases, telephone numbers) can be secured from the InternationalProgramme on Chemical Safety, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27,Switzerland, (41) (22) 913574, Telex No. 27821 OMS.

RESOURCE DOCUMENTS

1. Hazardous Chemical Reporting, Emegency Planning and CommunityRight-To-Know Programs, 40 CFR 370, US Federal Register, pp. 2836-2855, Tuesday, 27 January 1987.

2. Hazardous Materials Emergency Planning Guide, US National ResponseTeam, March 1987.

3. Extremely Hazardous Substances List and Threshold Planning Quantities,Emergency Planning and Release Notification Requirements, 40 CFRParts 300 and 355, US Federal Register, pp. 13 378-13 410, Wednesday, 22April 1987.

4. Review of Emergency Systems, Report to US Congress under Section 305 ofthe Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act of 1986, US Environ-mental Protection Agency, May 1987.

5. Toxic Chemicals Release Reporting, Community Right-To-Know, 40CFT 372, US Federal Register, pp. 21151-21208, Thursday, 4 June 1987.

6. Site Specific Technical Guidance for Hazard Analysis: Emergency Plan-ning for Extremely Hazardous Substances, Draft, EP A, FEMA, and USDOT, 4 August 1987.

7. International Symposium on Preventing Major Chemical Accidents, 2-4February 1987, Washington, DC, John L. Woodward (Ed.) Proceedings ofthe Symposium, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1987.

8. Categories of Information Useful for the Identification of Hazards Duringthe Manufacture, Storage and Transport of Chemicals: An Annotated

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Checklist, First Draft, November 1986, International Programme onChemical Safety, ICS/86.28: 17 pages.

9. Purposes of and Criteriafor Development of Chemical Hazard Lists fromTen Domestic and International Organizations and Comparative Analysisof the EPA Acutely Toxic Chemicals List with Lists from other Domesticand International Organizations. Reports to the Economics and Technolo-gy Division, Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances, US EnvironmentalProtection Agency, ICF, Inc., Washington, DC, 31 December 1986: 124pages.

10. Acute Hazardous Events Data Base, Report to the Economics and Technol-ogy Division, Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances, US EnvironmentalProtection Agency, Industrial Economics Inc., Cambridge, Mas-sachusetts, EPA 560-5-85-029, December 1985: 200 pages.

11. Manual of Industrial Hazard Assessment Techniques, Office of Environ-mental and Scientific Affairs, The World Bank, October 1985: 163 pages.

12. Accidental Release Case Histories and Credible Scenarios, Jane M. Crum,Advanced Processes Branch, Air and Energy Engineering ResearchLaboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, 15 October 1987: 29pages.

13. Proposal for a Council Directive on the Approximation of the Laws,Regulations and Administrative Provisions of the Member States relatingto the Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Preparations,Commission of the European Communities, COM(85) 364, Brussels,Belgium, 17 July 1985: 37 pages.

14. Criteria and Methods for Preparing Emergency Exposure Guidance Level(EEGL) Documents, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Toxicologyand Environmental Health Hazards, National Research Council,Washington, DC, May 1985: 24 pages.

15. Report of the IVP A C Study Group on Safety in Production and Applicationof Chemical Products, IUPAC General Assembly, September 1985: 21pages.

16. A Guide to the Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards Regulations,1984 (CIMAH), Health and Safety Executive. Health and Safety SeriesBooklet HS (R) 21, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Government ofGreat Britain, 1985.

17. The Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1984(CIMAH): Further Guidance on Emergency Plans, Health and SafetySeries Booklet HS (G) 25, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Governmentof Great Britain, 1985.

18. Overview of Current State of Knowledge on Heavy Gas Dispersion andOutstanding Problems/Issues, J. McQuaid, Safety Engineering LaboratoryResearch and Laboratory Services Division, Health and Safety Executive,Sheffield, England. Presented to the Symposium on Refinement of Esti-

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19. Factors Affecting Cloud Formation from Releases of Liquefied Gases, C.J.Wheatley, Safety and Reliability Directorate of the United KingdomAtomic Energy Authority, Cheshire, UK. Presented to the Symposium onRefinement of Estimates of the Consequences of Heavy Toxic VapourReleases, British Institute of Chemical Engineers, 8 January 1986: 50pages.

20. Major Hazard Incident Data Service (MHIDAS), Health and SafetyExecutive and the Safety and Reliability Directorate of the United King-dom Atomic Energy Authority, Cheshire, UK.

21. Identification of the Fire Hazards of Materials, Chapter 3, FlammabilityHazards and Chapter 4, Reactivity (Instability) Factors, National FireProtection Association.

22. Hazard Identification, Analysis and Control, Henry Ozog, ChemicalEngineering, pp. 161-170, 18 February 1985.

23. Event Data Collection for the Rijmond Process Industry, E.F. Blokker andD. Goos, Central Environmental Control Agency, Rijmond, Schiedam,Netherlands. Presented at the Fifth Euredata Conference, Heidelberg,Germany, 9-11 April 1986: 15 pages.

24. Overview of Major Hazards Research, Part I, Of Risk and All That. InVilain, J., Two-Phase Flows in Major Technological Hazards, von KarmanInstitute for Fluid Dynamics Lecture Series, 24-28 March 1986: 77 pages.

25. Overview of Major Hazards Research, Part II, Source Term, Dispersion,Combustion, Blast, Missiles, Venting, Fire, Radiation, Runaway Reac-tions, Toxic Substances, Dust Explosions. In Vilain, J., Two-Phase Flowsin Major Technological Hazards, von Karman Institute for Fluid DynamicsLecture Series, 24-28 March 1986.

26. Bleve, The Tragedy at San Juanica, First Skania International InsuranceCorporation, Stockholm, Sweden, 1985: 23 pages.

27. Safety in LNG Terminals, Design and Operation, H.R. Wesson, Confer-ence on Natural Gas for Energy in Portugal, 19November 1984: 94 pages.

28. Management of Hazardous Substances, Strategies and Policies in FramingHazardous Substances Control Act and Structure and Functions of Author-ity Created Thereunder, Department of Environment, Government ofIndia, New Delhi, December 1984: 62 pages.

29. Report on Scientific Studies on the Factors Related to Bhopal Toxic GasLeakage, December 1985: 81 pages.

30. Fedra K (1985) Advanced Decision-Oriented Software for the Managementof Hazardous Substances, Report No. CP-85-18, International Institutefor Applied Systems Analysis, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria.

31. Health and Safety Commission (1979) Second Report of Advisory Commit-tee on Major Hazards, HMSO, London.

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32. Health and Safety Commission (1984) The Control of Major Hazards,Third Report of Advisory Committee on Major Hazards, HMSO, London.

33. Health and Safety Executive (1985) Guide to the Control of IndustrialMajor Accidents Hazards Regulations, HMSO, London.

34. Roberts, A.F. (1980) The Collection of Data from Chemical Plan Inci-dents, Third International Symposium on Loss Prevention, Basle.

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37. Chemical Industry Safety and Health Council (1976) RecommendedProcedures for Handling Major Emergencies, Chemical Industries Asso-ciation, London, SE1 7TU.

38. Cooper, M.G. (Ed) 1985, Risk: Man-Made Hazards to Man, ClarendonPress, Oxford.

39. Health and Safety Executive (1981). Canvey: A Second Report-A Reviewof Potential Hazards from Operation in the Canvey Island/Thurrock Area,HMSO, London.

40. Institution of Chemical Engineers (1987) Fire and Toxic Release -Emergency Simulation Program, I. Chern E., Rugby CV21 3HQ, UK.