Chemical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security

The malicious acts against or within the chemical industrial sector pose a significant threat to both the employees working in the industry, to the communities around them, and to the nation they serve. This new book, the third in a series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, helps chemical manufacturers and processors prevent the devastating effects of such an attack by providing sound security principles and measures that they can implement in their chemical facilities. Addressing the security threats chemical production managers, chemical import managers, design engineers, and others must be prepared to meet on a daily basis, this book encourages a concerted effort to incorporate security upgrades in existing systems or to plan security in all new chemical processing sites. It addresses issues of monitoring, response, critical infrastructure redundancy, and recovery to minimize risk to the facility, the infrastructure, and the surrounding community.

Frank R. Spellman is assistant professor of environmental health at Old Dominion University and the author of more than fifty books, including Water Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (Gl, 2007) and Food Supply Protection and Homeland Security (Gl, 2008). Revonna M. Bieber works for the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in the field of industrial hygiene. She is coauthor, with Frank Spellman, of Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Chemical Industry (Gl, 2009) and Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Food Manufacturing Industry (Gl, 2007).