Small Industry

This easy-to-use new manual guides managers and specialists of small and medium size companies who must comply with State/Federal regulations-to protect both companies and their employees. This practical guide examines new areas of hazardous waste handling and toxic catastrophe prevention, provides responsibilities of federal and state agencies and information sources, and outlines medical, safety, worker education, and industrial hygiene programs-and the resources available to evaluate and correct workplace hazards.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

The small scale industrial sector has emerged as a vibrant and dynamic sector of the Indian economy since independence. With the twin objectives of employment generation and capital expansion, the small-scale sector was highly emphasized consistently in all the successive industrial policy resolutions. Considering the immense potentialities of the Small Scale Sector in the overall backdrop of Indian economy a natural level seminar was organised with the support of UGC. Thought provoking and highly illuminating papers were presented embracing a wide spectrum of issues revolving round the small-scale sector in the country. Those are clubbed together to put forth the viewpoints for reference to thinkers, policy makers, planners and academicians.