Industrial Health Safety category: 514 books
Health and Environmental Safety of Nanomaterials
Polymer Nancomposites and Other Materials Containing Nanoparticles
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Health and Environmental Safety of Nanomaterials addresses concerns about the impact of nanomaterials on the environment and human health, and examines the safety of specific nanomaterials. Understanding the unique chemical and physical properties of nanostructures has led to many developments in...
Pre-Accident Investigations
Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Pre-Accident Investigations: Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning challenges safety and reliability professionals to get better answers by asking better questions. A provocative examination of human performance and safety management, the book delivers a thought-provoking...
by Swapan Basu
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Plant Hazard Analysis and Safety Instrumentation Systems is the first book to combine coverage of these two integral aspects of running a chemical processing plant. It helps engineers from various disciplines learn how various analysis techniques, international standards, and instrumentation and controls...
EMF Book: Radiation Nation - Complete Guide to EMF Protection & Safety
The Proven Health Risks of EMF Radiation & What You Can Do to Protect Yourself & Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
An Invisible Danger on the Rise
You eat organic and non-GMO food. You only drink purified water. You take care of yourself and your family's health. But could there be a silent, invisible danger causing potential harm to you and your loved ones? There could. And it's called electromagnetic...
by HSE Health and Safety Executive
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Packed with simple, straightforward advice, this book covers the most common workplace hazards. It shows how most small to medium-sized businesses can put measures in place to control the risks.
Easy to use, it will help you comply with the law and prevent workplace accidents and ill health....
Safety-I and Safety-II
The Past and Future of Safety Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Safety has traditionally been defined as a condition where the number of adverse outcomes was as low as possible (Safety-I). From a Safety-I perspective, the purpose of safety management is to make sure that the number of accidents and incidents is kept as low as possible, or as low as is reasonably...
by Zakari Mustapha, Clinton Aigbavboa, Wellington Thwala
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book explores the formation of small and medium-sized construction company's (SME) compliance with health and safety issues in developing countries. Little has been written about the formation of SME contractors' health and safety compliance for developing countries, especially, in the sub-sahara...
Resilience Engineering Perspectives, Volume 1
Remaining Sensitive to the Possibility of Failure
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In the resilience engineering approach to safety, failures and successes are seen as two different outcomes of the same underlying process, namely how people and organizations cope with complex, underspecified and therefore partly unpredictable work environments. Therefore safety can no longer be...
New Tools, Old Tasks
Safety Implications of New Technologies and Work Processes for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
New Tools, Old Tasks explores how Integrated Operations (IO) will influence the safety of offshore drilling operations. The book is based on several years of practical experience combined with a research study on the safety of IO within the drilling domain. The overall objective of the book is to...
Safety, Health and Environmental Auditing
A Practical Guide, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This new edition builds on the success of the first edition. It has been enhanced to embrace new topics including Due Dilgence, EHS Auditing, Process Safety, Auditing, and a chapter summarizing auditing with the relevant ISO standards. The rest of the book has been updated to fit with the guidance...
by John Durkee, Ph.D., P.E.
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2006
More stringent quality standards and environmental/safety regulations as well as new process and chemical technology have changed industrial cleaning from a “wet and wipe application to a valued and demanding process operation. This book will help cleaning operatives, designers of equipment, metal...
Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Principles
for Oil, Gas, Chemical and Related Facilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Written by an engineer for engineers, this book is both training manual and on-going reference, bringing together all the different facets of the complex processes that must be in place to minimize the risk to people, plant and the environment from fires, explosions, vapour releases and oil spills....
by Joel Lööw, Bo Johansson, Eira Andersson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
The mining industry has experienced important improvements with regard to its safety record and work environment. But there is still room for further improvement and the mining industry now faces the challenge of securing a future workforce: The current workforce is aging, and mining work increasingly...
by Fred A. Manuele
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Explains how to implement the best safety practices and why they work
Reviews from the Third Edition
"An excellent piece of work."
—Safety Health Practitioner (SHP)
"This is a book to be read now for its educational value and also to be kept on the shelf for easy...