Government Institutes imprint: 98 books

by Ron C. McKinnon
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007

Common safety paradigms, the author argues, hamper the progress of safety in the workplace, contributing to the more than four million serious injuries Americans suffer at work each year and to the rising work injury rate worldwide. Failure to reevaluate these accepted mindsets puts both safety professionals...
by Goldberg, CIH, Arleen F.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999

This 2nd Edition is a significantly expanded exploration of hazardous chemicals, their effects on human health, and the principles of hazards materials toxicology and industrial hygiene. It includes up-to-date coverage of industrial hygiene, risk assessment, and epidemiology as well as continued coverage...

Forklift Safety

A Practical Guide to Preventing Powered Industrial Truck Incidents and Injuries

by George Swartz
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999

Written for the more than 1.5 million powered industrial truck operators and supervisors in general industry, as well as those in the construction and marine industries, this Second Edition provides an updated guide to training operators in safety and complying with OSHA's 1999 forklift standard....

Managing Your Hazardous Wastes

A Step-by-Step RCRA Compliance Guide

by James K. Voyles Esq.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002

This 2nd Edition provides any facility that generates or processes hazardous waste—treatment facilities, recyclers, hazardous waste transporters, and storage facilities—with a practical guide for quickly and accurately identifying the extensive, detailed, and complicated Resource Conservation...

Safety is a People Business

A Practical Guide to the Human Side of Safety

by Michael V. Manning
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997

Filled with practical insights, solutions, and tools, this book will help even veteran safety professionals better understand behavioral approaches to safety, improve safety performance and employee involvement, and obtain senior management support. Manning's book presents a simplified, non-technical...
by Julie Todaro
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009

Despite the volumes of information they contain, few libraries, whose population at any given moment is as unpredictable as the weather, know how to prepare for, endure, and survive a disaster, whether natural or man-made, and even fewer put their know-how to paper. Emergency Preparedness for Libraries...
by Ridgway M. Hall Jr., Robert C. Davis Jr., Richard E. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001

This updated edition examines the latest regulatory and judicial developments involving the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and provides a clear, practical explanation of its requirements. Using this book, you will learn how to manage the "field side" of RCRA compliance,...

Warehouse Safety

A Practical Guide to Preventing Warehouse Incidents and Injuries

by George Swartz
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999

Because warehouses typically contain no dangerous machines or high-risk operations, employers and employees often develop a false sense of safety and security. With this book, you will learn how to proactively develop formal safety programs and reduce the number of safety incidents and losses that...

Wetlands

An Introduction to Ecology, the Law, and Permitting

by Theda Braddock, Lisa Berntsen
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007

This second edition explains what wetlands are and how they fit into our complex environmental systems. It incorporates recent court cases and regulations, discusses the functions and values of wetlands, and details the scientific classification of wetlands. Completely updated, this new edition includes...
by McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005

Prompted by important developments that have occurred since the publication of the third edition eight years ago, the newly updated TSCA Handbook provides anyone who manufactures, processes, distributes, or uses chemicals with a comprehensive look at their requirements under the Toxic Substances Control...

PSM/RMP Auditing Handbook

A Checklist Approach

by David Einolf, Luverna Menghini
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999

This book provides facility managers with an easy-to-use annotated guide to completing a Process Safety Management/Risk Management Planning (PSM/RMP) audit and determining compliance. Using this reference, you'll learn how to evaluate current regulatory thinking and interpretations and develop a compliant...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996

Conducted by NIOSH, these comprehensive case studies bring the latest research and technology to bear on workplace health problems which companies are likely to encounter at a variety of worksites. These hard-to-find case studies have been selected based on a number of variables, including type of...
by Mark E. Stelljes Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007

Toxicology for Non-Toxicologists provides non-scientific readers with basic toxicological concepts and explains how those concepts and their applications affect everyday life. It is designed for professionals in the environmental field as well as for a more general audience. Completely updated, this...

PPE Made Easy

A Comprehensive Checklist Approach to Selecting and Using Personal Protective Equipment

by Jeffrey O. Stull
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998

Using an easy-to-use checklist format, author Jeffrey Stull, an internationally recognized expert in the area of protective clothing, examines the types of industrial and fire hazards that warrant PPE protection. He also covers how to select equipment from the range of products available, which materials...
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