Safety category: 688 books
Human Behavior in Hazardous Situations
Best Practice Safety Management in the Chemical and Process Industries
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Human Behavior in Hazardous Situations introduces a new generation within safety management, fully developed with neuropsychological insights, developed in collaboration with, and put to test by, the chemical and process industries. Until now, there has been little theoretical framework on how, and...
Introduction to Oil and Gas Operational Safety
Revision Guide for the NEBOSH International Technical Certificate in Oil and Gas Operational Safety
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This companion to Introduction to Oil and Gas Operational Safety will help you to prepare for the written assessment of the NEBOSH International Technical Certificate in Oil and Gas Operational Safety.
Aligned directly to the NEBOSH syllabus, this revision guide includes learning outcomes...
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...
by Frank R. Spellman, Kathern D. Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This book details how to start and maintain a successful safety program in a municipal or industrial water or wastewater plant with special emphasis on the practical implementation. This new edition provides the latest OSHA regulations and recommendations, and each chapter has been updated with new...
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...
Resilience Engineering
Concepts and Precepts
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
For Resilience Engineering, 'failure' is the result of the adaptations necessary to cope with the complexity of the real world, rather than a breakdown or malfunction. The performance of individuals and organizations must continually adjust to current conditions and, because resources and time are...
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...
Nonlinear Optimization of Vehicle Safety Structures
Modeling of Structures Subjected to Large Deformations
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Nonlinear Optimization of Vehicle Safety Structures: Modeling of Structures Subjected to Large Deformations provides a cutting-edge overview of the latest optimization methods for vehicle structural design. The book focuses on large deformation structural optimization algorithms and applications,...
by Patrick A. Michaud
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Accident Prevention and OSHA Compliance contains all the information you need to reduce or avoid injuries, illnesses, fires, and equipment damage resulting from an accident. The book provides valuable insight into how OSHA conducts its inspections and how to avoid losses and increase profits by complying...
The Risk Management of Safety and Dependability
A Guide for Directors, Managers and Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
The issue of risk should be embedded into the mindset of every engineer and manager to improve safety and dependability. Companies can be held accountable through law when a gross failing in health and safety management has fatal consequences. Here risk management, the organisational structure required...
by HSE Health and Safety Executive
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000 (PSSR) cover the safe design and use of pressure systems. The aim of PSSR is to prevent serious injury from the hazard of stored energy (pressure) as a result of the failure of a pressure system or one of its component parts.
The revised PSSR ACOP...
Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Safety in the process industries is critical for those who work with chemicals and hazardous substances or processes. The field of loss prevention is, and continues to be, of supreme importance to countless companies, municipalities and governments around the world, and Lees’ is a detailed reference...
by Fred Sherratt
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Unpacking Construction Site Safety provides a different perspective of safety in practice. • examines how useful the concept of safety actually is to the development of effective management interventions • providing new insights and information to the audience, and assist in a more informed development...