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Course & Subject Guides

Chemical Safety - Pittsburgh Campus

This guide is designed primarily to support the chemical safety education effort of the Department of Chemistry on the Oakland campus, but it should be useful to anyone working with chemicals at the University of Pittsburgh.

Handbooks

NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards

Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards (7th ed.) by P. G. Urben (Editor)
Call Number: Available online through Knovel
Publication Date: 2007
Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders by Robert Burke
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2013
Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials (12th ed.) by Richard J. Lewis
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2012
For compounds with simple names (e.g., benzene), searching by CAS registry number may be the most efficient search.
Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens (6th ed.) by Richard P. Pohanish
Call Number: Available online through Knovel
Publication Date: 2008
Wiley Guide to Chemical Incompatibilities (3rd ed.) by Richard P. Pohanish; Stanley A. Greene
Publication Date: 2009
e-EROS: Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis by Leo A. Paquette
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 1995 - updated semiannually
Fire Protection Guide to Hazardous Materials (13th ed.) by National Fire Protection Association
Publication Date: 2002