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Code

Written requirements that affect a facility and/or the process safety requirements that apply to a facility. Codes contain requirements that apply to the design and implementation of management systems, design and operation of process equipment, or similar activities. The difference between a code...

Cloud

Any type of pollutant mass moving through the atmosphere.

Client

The term used in this text to identify the company issuing the tolling contract to the toller. The toller's client.

Chronic Toxicity

Adverse (chronic) effects resulting from repeated doses of or exposures to a substance over a relatively prolonged period of time. Importance: Ordinarily used to denote effects in experimental animals.

Chronic Hazard

The potential for injury or damage to occur as a result of prolonged exposure to an undesirable condition (e.g., smoking, with the potential for causing lung cancer).

Chronic Exposure

A frequent or continuous exposure to a toxic agent over an unspecified, but generally lengthy, period of time.

Chronic Effect

An adverse effect on a human or animal body, with symptoms which develop slowly over a long period of time. Also, see "Acute". Importance: The length of time that a worker is exposed is the critical factor. Long periods of time pass, with repeated exposure to a chemical, before any ill effects are...

Chronic

Long-term, usually multiple exposures

Chemical Reactivity Hazard

A situation with the potential for an uncontrolled chemical reaction that can result directly or indirectly in serious harm to people, property or the environment. The uncontrolled chemical reaction might be accompanied by a temperature increase, pressure increase, gas evolution or other form of...

Chemical Reactivity

The tendency of substances to undergo chemical change. (NOAA 2002)

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