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Assessment and management of chemical and biohazard risk requires an understanding of risks in the laboratory, the environment, and the community. This handbook provides guidance on best management practices to help prevent costly oversights and dangers in practice, in industrial and scientific settings. It offers tools to actively avoid ill effects by addressing complacency, promoting good laboratory ethics, and encouraging proactive strategies to minimize risk. This handbook examines the safety culture of chemicals in a laboratory setting, simultaneously serving both as a proactive management exercise and as a means of preventing costly oversights and dangers in practice.

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Dr. Maima is Associate Professor of Pharmacy and the Dean of the School of Pharmacy, Maseno University, Kenya. He holds a PhD in Community Health and Development and Master of Pharmacy in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Analysis. He is a former Dean and Program Leader of the School of Pharmacy & Health Sciences at the United States International University-Africa. He is a fellow of the Centre for Effective Global Action (CEGA) of the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) and the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID). He is also a Trained PhD supervisor. Maima is a pharmaceutical chemist and analyst, public health specialist and epidemiologist, implementation research scientist, registered pharmacist in Kenya, and Good Standing Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya. His other current and past memberships include the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), the Experts/Specialization Committee, the Training and Assessment Technical Committee of the Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Kenya, the board of management of the National Quality Control Laboratories, and the Ministerial Committee that prepared the Kenya National Pharmaceutical Policy (KNPP) of 2010. He is also the current President of the Association of Pharmacy Schools of Kenya (APSK) and the Editor-in-Chief of the Pharmaceutical Journal of Kenya.

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