Industrial Health Safety category: 514 books
Just Culture
Balancing Safety and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Building on the success of the 2007 original, Dekker revises, enhances and expands his view of just culture for this second edition, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice is created inside organizations. The goal remains the same: to create an environment where learning and accountability...
by CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The 2nd edition provides an update of information since the publication of the first edition including best practices for managing process safety developed by industry as well as incorporate the additional process safety elements. In addition the book includes a focus on maintaining and improving...
FRAM: The Functional Resonance Analysis Method
Modelling Complex Socio-technical Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Resilience engineering has consistently argued that safety is more than the absence of failures. Since the first book was published in 2006, several book chapters and papers have demonstrated the advantage in going behind 'human error' and beyond the failure concept, just as a number of serious accidents...
by V. Narayan
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This unique and practical book describes 42 real-life events and/or situations in the careers of the three authors from which they gained insights into the applicable best practices in maintenance and reliability. The authors explain the underlying philosophies where relevant, drawing on the teachings...
Industrial Design Engineering
Inventive Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Designing new products and improving existing ones is a continual process. Industrial design engineering is an industrial engineering process applied to product designs that are to be manufactured through techniques of production operations. Excellent industrial design engineering programs are essential...
Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries
Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Dennis Nolan, drawing on decades of experience as a well-known safety author and senior loss prevention specialist at Saudi Aramco, provides the essential procedures and checklists in Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries. In addition to guiding the reader through the selection and...
by Robert Whittingham
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
The Blame Machine describes how disasters and serious accidents result from recurring, but potentially avoidable, human errors. It shows how such errors are preventable because they result from defective systems within a company. From real incidents, you will be able to identify common causes of human...
by Daniel P. Jenkins, Neville A. Stanton, Guy H. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
'Complex sociotechnical systems' are systems made up of numerous interacting parts, both human and non-human, operating in dynamic, ambiguous and safety critical domains. Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a structured framework specifically developed for considering the development and analysis of...
Gas Mixtures
Preparation and Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Gas Mixtures provides practical suggestions and calculations for producing multicomponent test gas atmospheres. General topics addressed include sorbent evaluation, methods development, dosimeter testing, instrument calibration, atmospheric simulation, and gas analysis. Learn the tricks of the trade...
Bowtie Methodology
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Bow Tie Methodology (BTM) consists of two methods, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA), which are connected by a single event. The methodology is holistic and provides the tools and pre-event analysis, which is also called the risk calculations, and post-event analysis, also called...
Safety Management
A Qualitative Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Professionals striving for accident reduction must deal with systems in which both technical and human elements play equal and complementary roles. However, many of the existing techniques in ergonomics and risk management concentrate on plant and technical issues and downplay human factors and "subjectivity."...
The Story of Industrial Engineering
The Rise from Shop-Floor Management to Modern Digital Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Industrial engineering is the profession dedicated to making collective systems function better with less waste, better quality, and fewer resources, to serve the needs of society more efficiently and more effectively. This book uses a story-telling approach to advocate and elaborate the fundamental...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Adopting a strategic approach to risk management can maximize competitiveness and profitability. Total Safety and Productivity approaches offer managers a set of methods and tools to apply a Total Safety Management (TSM) philosophy to achieve this. The capability to anticipate, assess and plan for...
Fire Safety and Risk Management
for the NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
This textbook is directly aligned to the NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management, with each element of the syllabus explained in detail. Each chapter guides the student through the syllabus with references to legal frameworks and guidelines. Images, tables, case studies and...