Industrial Health Safety category: 514 books
Safety Metrics
Tools and Techniques for Measuring Safety Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This practical guide—and popular reference—helps you evaluate the efficiency of your company's current safety and health processes and make fact-based decisions that continually improve overall performance. Newly updated, this edition now also shows you how to incorporate safety management system...
Environmental Health and Safety Audits
A Compendium of Thoughts and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
EHS auditing has been around since the mid-1970’s when the Securities and Exchange Commission launched enforcement actions against three U.S. Fortune 500 companies that the Commission believed were misleading their shareholders about environmental liabilities. Since then the profession has continued...
Rethinking Bhopal
A Definitive Guide to Investigating, Preventing, and Learning from Industrial Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Rethinking Bhopal: A Definitive Guide to Investigating, Preventing, and Learning from Industrial Disasters is the go-to source for anyone seeking to learn how to improve process safety management (PSM) through applying fundamental asset reliability and incident investigation concepts.
The seeds...
by Erik Hollnagel, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Health care is everywhere under tremendous pressure with regard to efficiency, safety, and economic viability - to say nothing of having to meet various political agendas - and has responded by eagerly adopting techniques that have been useful in other industries, such as quality management, lean...
by C.M. van 't Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Expert insight and guidance on integrating safety into design to significantly reduce risks to people, systems, property, and communities
Safe design refers to the integration of hazard identification and risk assessment methods early in the design process so as to eliminate or minimize the...
Process Safety
Key Concepts and Practical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Effective process safety programs consist of three interrelated foundations—safety culture and leadership, process safety systems, and operational discipline—designed to prevent serious injuries and incidents resulting from toxic releases, fires, explosions, and uncontrolled reactions. Each of...
by Mark A. Friend, Theodore S. Ferry
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Safety and Health Management Planning addresses new regulations and practices to help you achieve safety and health management success. Emphasizing the reduction of costs through cost/benefit analysis, this book covers practical material and real-world examples of common exercises, including safety...
Process and Plant Safety
Applying Computational Fluid Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The safe operation of plants is of paramount importance in the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Best practice in process and plant safety allows both the prevention of hazards and the mitigation of consequences. Safety Technology is continuously advancing to new levels and Computational...
by R B Whittingham
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The passing of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill in the UK and increasing public and investor pressure for good Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility, means organizations now, more than ever, need to ensure they do all they can to prevent major accidents. However,...
by Stian Antonsen
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The aim of this book is to show how a cultural approach can contribute to the assessment, description and improvement of safety conditions in organizations. The relationship between organizational culture and safety, epitomized through the concept of 'safety culture', has undoubtedly become one of...
Fuel and Combustion Systems Safety
What you don't know can kill you!
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Practical, easy-to-follow advice that saves lives
Based on the author's thirty years of hands-on experience working in the field of industrial fuel systems and combustion equipment safety, this book integrates safety codes with practical, tested, and proven guidance that makes it viable to...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
What is required to make a workplace safe for employees and legally compliant with the Occupation Safety and Health Administration's regulations? Building on the success of the first two editions of Safety and Environmental Management, this updated and expanded third edition discusses the elements...
Health and Safety Management
An Alternative Approach to Reducing Accidents, Injury and Illness at Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
At a time when our knowledge and understanding of health and safety at work is at its highest, statistics show that ongoing improvements in accident rates and time taken off work due to injury and ill-health are stagnating. Alongside the fact that around 80% of accidents can be attributed to human...
by Jeremy Stranks
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
Accidents and cases of occupational ill-health are commonly associated with aspects of human behaviour and the potential for human error. Human Factors and Behavioural Safety is not written for psychologists, but instead gives health and safety professionals and students a broad overview of human...