Safety category: 688 books
by Thomas D. Schneid, Shelby L. Schneid
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The goal of this book is to prepare safety and health professionals to recognize and address human resource issues, applicable laws and regulations, as well as change management techniques used to alter the safety culture within their operations. This book will provide awareness to avoid or address...
by Thomas D. Schneid
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
The purpose of this text to provide a "one stop" source for safety professionals to acquire a general knowledge regarding not only the OSH Act but also laws and standards which impact the safety profession on a daily basis. The safety professional today does not work in a vacuum and decision-making...
by Lon H. Ferguson, Christopher A. Dr. Janicak
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Fundamentals of Fire Protection for the Safety Professional provides safety managers with a guide for incorporating fire hazard awareness and protection into their safety management plans.
Industrial fires pose one of the greatest threats to organizations in terms of financial, human, and property...
International Health and Safety at Work
for the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
International Health and Safety at Work has been specially written in simple English for the thousands of students who complete the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Health and Safety each year. Fully revised in alignment with the April 2015 syllabus, this third edition provides students...
International Health and Safety at Work Revision Guide
for the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This companion to the bestselling International Health and Safety at Work is an essential revision aid for students preparing for their written assessments on the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety.
Fully updated to the April 2015 specification, the revision...
by Roger L. Brauer
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Safety and Health for Engineers, 3rd Edition, addresses the fundamentals of safety, legal aspects, hazard recognition and control, and techniques for managing safety decisions, as well as:
Completely revises and updates all 38 chapters in the book
New edition adds more than 110 stories and cases...
Multimodal Safety Management and Human Factors
Crossing the Borders of Medical, Aviation, Road and Rail Industries
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Safety management and human factors disciplines are often regarded as subjective and nebulous. This perhaps stems from a variety of, sometimes disparate, activities in the realms of education, industry and research. Aviation is one of the safety-critical industries that has led the development of...
Health and Safety at Work Revision Guide
for the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety at Work is an essential revision aid for students preparing for their written assessments on the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety.
Fully updated to the latest NEBOSH National General Certificate...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The leading book on the subject of occupational health & safety revised in line with recent UK legislation and practice.
New to this edition is the foreword by Judith Hackitt CBE, Chair of the Health and Safety Executive and a brand new chapter on the latest EU and international regulations...
Simplicity in Safety Investigations
A Practitioner's Guide to Applying Safety Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This innovative book aims to bring the science of safety into a simple and practical approach to investigating workplace incidents. As a basis, it uses the ideas of some of the great safety science thinkers of our time. These include Sidney Dekker, Todd Conklin, Erik Hollnagel, Daniel Kahneman, James...
The Safety Anarchist
Relying on human expertise and innovation, reducing bureaucracy and compliance
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Work has never been as safe as it seems today. Safety has also never been as bureaucratized as it is today. Over the past two decades, the number of safety rules and statutes has exploded, and organizations themselves are creating ever more internal compliance requirements. At the same time, progress...
Safety at the Sharp End
A Guide to Non-Technical Skills
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Many 21st century operations are characterised by teams of workers dealing with significant risks and complex technology, in competitive, commercially-driven environments. Informed managers in such sectors have realised the necessity of understanding the human dimension to their operations if they...
Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Over the last three decades the process industries have grown very rapidly, with corresponding increases in the quantities of hazardous materials in process, storage or transport. Plants have become larger and are often situated in or close to densely populated areas. Increased hazard of loss of life...
Foundations of Safety Science
A Century of Understanding Accidents and Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
How are today’s ‘hearts and minds’ programs linked to a late-19th century definition of human factors as people’s moral and mental deficits? What do Heinrich’s ‘unsafe acts’ from the 1930’s have in common with the Swiss cheese model of the early 1990’s? Why was the reinvention of...