Study Resources & Links

Reading Materials

• OSHA Laboratory Standard 29CFR1910.1450
• Prudent Practices in the Laboratory, National Academies of Science, 2011

Preparatory Courses (Note: not affiliated with NRCC)

• ACS Div. of Chemical Health & Safety
• Laboratory Safety Institute
• Midwest Chemical Safety
• UNC OSHERC

Reading Materials:

• William Clarke, Contemporary Practice in Clinical Chemistry, 2nd Ed. AACC
  Press; Washington, DC, 2011
• Kaplan & Pesce, Clinical Chemistry: Theory, Analysis, Correlation, 5th Ed
• Bishop, Clinical Chemistry, 6th Ed, particularly the “Enzymology” chapter
• Strasinger SK, Di Lorenzo MJ, Urinalysis and Body Fluids, 5th ed.
  Philadelphia,
  PA; 2008
• Tietz Textbook of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics

Reading Materials:

• American Conference of Governmental industrial Hygienists (ACGIH),
  Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) and Biological Exposure Indices (BEIs) for
  Chemical Substances and Physical Agents by the ACGIH, Cincinnati, OH,
  published annually.
• Klonne, D. R., Occupational Exposure Limits in The Occupational
  Environment: its Evaluation, Control and Management, S. R. Di Nardi (ed.),
  American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), 2nd ed., Fairfax, VA 2003.
• Schaper, M. M. and M. S. Bisesi, Environmental and Occupational
  Toxicology in The Occupational Environment: its Evaluation, Control and
  Management, S. R. Di Nardi (ed.), American Industrial Hygiene Association
  (AIHA), 2nd ed., Fairfax, VA 2003.
• Cohen R. and K. Balzer, Industrial Toxicology in Fundamentals of Industrial
  Hygiene, B. A. Plog and P. A. Quinlan (ed.), 5th ed., National Safety Council,
  Itasca Il 2002.
• C. D. Klassen (ed.), Louis J. Casarett & John Doull, Casarett and Doull,
  Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York 1996.

Reading Materials

• The Clinical Toxicology Laboratory. Contemporary Practice of Poisoning
  Evaluation. AACC Press
• Clarke’s Analysis of Drugs and Poisons, Anthony Moffat Ed. (chapters on
  methodology are very good)
• Disposition of Toxic Drugs and Chemicals in Man, Baselt Ed.
  (monographs for individual drugs)
• Robert White, Reference Review Questions in Toxicology, AACC Press

Note: These organizations are not affiliated with NRCC

• forensicED
• AACC

• ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
• American Association for Clinical Chemistry
• American Industrial Hygiene Association