Industrial Health Safety category: 514 books
Riesgos fisicos II
Iluminación
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
La obra presenta a la iluminación y las radiaciones ionizantes como factores de riesgo físico por encontrarse presente en el medio ambiente con la posibilidad de afectar al trabajador. Además de esto, las radiaciones constituyen hoy en día un problema de salud pública e higiene industrial; y...
by Trevor Kletz
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
Review of previous edition:
"Trevor Kletz's book makes an invaluable contribution to the systematic, professional and scientific approach to accident investigation". The Chemical Engineer
Fully revised and updated, the third edition of Learning from Accidents provides more information...
Dynamic Risk Assessment
The Practical Guide to Making Risk-Based Decisions with the 3-Level Risk Management Model
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Dynamic Risk Assessment is the key tool to support a holistic risk management framework. This book aims to help employers, managers and staff alike to understand how they can effectively integrate dynamic risk assessment into business management processes and systems to improve safety.
With...
Building Materials
Product Emission and Combustion Health Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The construction industry is bombarded with ever-changing building materials—components of which are more and more difficult, if not impossible, to identify. Building material emissions have been implicated as a major source of indoor air pollution, and toxic gases, often unidentified, are generated...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Operating at a high level of fuel efficiency, safety, proliferation-resistance, sustainability and cost, generation IV nuclear reactors promise enhanced features to an energy resource which is already seen as an outstanding source of reliable base load power. The performance and reliability of materials...
Lean Implementation
Applications and Hidden Costs
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This book will address key organizational issues that must be considered and addressed when implementing Lean business practices. The book offers solutions for many of the challenges, provides a resource that leaders can use in addressing cultural and regulatory issues, provides means to address the...
Physical Hazard Control
Preventing Injuries in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
People deal with physical hazards every day at the workplace, in their homes, on the roadways, and in many other areas. In any situation, people face potential hazards-often more than one hazard in each situation-and these hazards often lead to serious injury. But it is possible to mitigate the effects...
Construction Reliability
Safety, Variability and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
This book provides answers to the following problems: how to identify the most probable critical failures; how to describe and use data-concerning materials that are either heterogeneous, time-variant, or space-variant; how to quantify the reliability and lifetime of a system; how to use feedback...
Engineering Maintainability:
How to Design for Reliability and Easy Maintenance
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1999
This book provides the guidelines and fundamental methods of estimation and calculation needed by maintainability engineers. It also covers the management of maintainability efforts, including issues of organizational structure, cost, and planning processes. Questions and problems conclude each chapter.
by Catherine M. Burns, John Hajdukiewicz
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Ecological Interface Design delivers the techniques and examples that provide you with a foundation to succeed in designing advanced display graphics. The opening chapters introduce the "art" of interface design by exposing the analytical methods behind designs, the most common graphical...
Resilience Engineering in Practice
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Resilience engineering has since 2004 attracted widespread interest from industry as well as academia. Practitioners from various fields, such as aviation and air traffic management, patient safety, off-shore exploration and production, have quickly realised the potential of resilience engineering...
Systems Engineering
Design Principles and Models
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
For the past several decades, systems engineering has grown rapidly in its scope and application and shown significant benefits for the design of large, complex systems. However, current systems engineering textbooks are either too technical or at a high conceptual level. Written by an expert with...
Small Modular Reactors
Nuclear Power Fad or Future?
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
There is currently significant interest in the development of small modular reactors (SMRs) for the generation of both electricity and process heat. SMRs offer potential benefits in terms of better affordability and enhanced safety, and can also be sited more flexibly than traditional nuclear plants....
Floored!
Real-Life Stories from a Slip and Fall Expert Witness
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
When watching the evening news you can be led to believe that most slip and fall claims are bogus and nothing more than a scam designed to fleece business owners and the insurance industry for money. But not all Plaintiffs are scam artists, and not all victims are seeking to cash in on their injury....