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• Home
• 1. Introduction and Purpose
• 2. Production Information and Product Characteristics
  • 2.1 General Description and Hazardous Properties
  • 2.2 Physical Properties
  • 2.3 Manufacturing and Quality
  • 2.4 Inhibition of Styrene (Chemistry, Mechanism and Levels)
    • 2.4.1 Safety and Quality
    • 2.4.2 Inhibition Chemistry
    • 2.4.3 Standard Inhibitor Levels
  • 2.5 Environmental Effects
  • 2.6 Transport Classifications (Europe)
  • 2.7 European Regulatory Environment
• 3. Health Aspects
  • 3.1 General
  • 3.2 Acute Toxicity
  • 3.3 Skin and Eye Irritation
  • 3.4 Sensitisation
  • 3.5 Carcinogenicity / Genotoxicity
  • 3.6 Conclusions
• 4. Environmental Aspects
  • 4.1 General
  • 4.2 Partition to Air Compartment
  • 4.3 Partition to Water Compartment
  • 4.4 Partition to Soil Compartment
  • 4.5 Bioaccumulation, Movement & Partition
  • 4.6 Degradation and Persistence
  • 4.7 Aquatic Toxicity
  • 4.8 Product Classification (Environmental Effects)
• 5. Design and construction of transport and storage equipment
  • 5.1 Railcars (Rail Tank Wagons)
  • 5.2. Tanktrucks (Road Tankers)
  • 5.3. Tank Containers
  • 5.4. Vessels and Barges
  • 5.5. Storage Tanks
  • 5.6. Loading and Unloading Facilities.
• 6. Transport, Loading and Storage Operations
  • 6.1. Training
  • 6.2. Operating Instructions and Regulations
  • 6.3. Inspections
  • 6.4. Loading Operations for Rail and Road Transport
  • 6.5. Unloading Operations for Rail and Road Transport
  • 6.6. Vapour Control
  • 6.7. Previous Cargoes and Cleanliness
  • 6.8. Blanketing
  • 6.9 Road Specific Operations
  • 6.10 Intermodal Transport
  • 6.11 Ferries Selection
  • 6.12 Rail Specific Operations
  • 6.13 Operations Common to Barges and Dea
  • 6.14 Barge Specific Operations
  • 6.15 Sea Specific Operations
  • 6.16 Tank Storage Operation
  • 6.17 Customer Collection
• 7. Emergency procedures
  • 7.1. Emergency Planning
  • 7.2. Measures in the event of a release of Styrene
  • 7.3. Fire Fighting
• 8. Personal protection, first aid and medical treatment
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Personal Protection
  • 8.3. First Aid & Medical Treatment
• 9. Styrene: REACH Consortium
  • 9.1. Purpose
  • 9.2. Preparing for Registration
  • 9.3. SIEFs and consortia
  • 9.4. Recommendations with respect to REACH consortia
  • 9.5. Benefits of contacting SPA
  • 9.6. Confidentiality
  • 9.7. Start up and contacts
  • 9.8. What SPA will not do
• Appendices
  • Appendix 1: Cefic and Responsible Care
  • Appendix 2: Styrene Polymerisation in Storage
  • Appendix 3: Design and Construction of Vessels and Barges
  • Appendix 4: Design & Construction of Tanks
  • Appendix 5: Inspection Loading List of Transport Equipment
  • Appendix 6: Inspection Unloading List of Transport Equipment
  • Appendix 7: Reception and Storage Facilities
  • Appendix 8: Cefic Ericard
  • Appendix 9: Cefic Tremcard
  • Appendix 10: Glossary of Abbreviations
• Bibliography

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