Occupational Health and Safety

Forklift Health and Safety Best Practices Guideline by Government of Alberta. This document may be applicable to assist in establishing a forklift health and safety program at your worksite. However, it is critical that you evaluate your own unique circumstances to ensure that an appropriate program is established for your work site. It is strongly recommended that you consult relevant …

The fourth edition of Fundamentals of Fire Fighter Skills and Hazardous Materials Response was significantly updated to better serve Fire Fighter I and II instructors and students. Not only were the underpinnings of the textbook and curriculum shifted from the NFPA 472 standard to the professional qualifications standard of NFPA 1072, but the overall organization and design of the material …

Fire Service Hydraulics & Pump Operations by Paul Spurgeon. This text gives you a straightforward and clear understanding of fire service hydraulics by using a practical and realistic approach to the subject. This book is broken down into two sections. The first section deals with the theory and practice of pencil-sharp hydraulics. The purpose of this section is to give …

Human Fatigue Risk Management Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry by Matthew, S Thimgan. The book starts with a very succinct description of the consequences of lack of human fatigue risk management, and then goes into extensive detail about all the factors that are important in assessing fatigue, the impact of fatigue on human performance and incidents, and finally …

Practical Industrial Safety, Risk Assessment and Shutdown Systems for Industry by D.Macdonald. This book is an intensive practical and valuable exposure to the most vital, up-to-date information and practical know-how to enable you to participate in hazard studies and specify, design, install and operate the safety and emergency shutdown systems in your plant, using international safety practices. This book will …

Principles Of Fire Risk Assessment In Buildings by David Yung. This book has been prepared as a reference source for fire safety professionals working in the fire risk assessment field. It is also intended as a textbook for university students in fire protection engineering. It is my hope that it will serve both fields well. Auther clear and practical approach …

Handbook of Hazardous Chemical Properties by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff. This volume has been prepared as a reference source on the hazardous properties of industrial and consumer chemicals. It is designed to assist chemical handling specialists, emergency responders, and health and safety engineers, and technicians in the safe handling and shipping practices of chemicals. The reader should first review the Glossary …

Food Safety Management A Practical Guide for the Food Industry Y. Motarjemi. Food Safety Management: A Practical Guide for the Food Industry is a unique book and a reference for the future. For the first time, it gathers all essential and basic information that managers and professionals need to know about the management of food safety in the food industry …

Safety at Work, Seventh Edition 7th Edition by  John Ridley. A major objective of this book has been to provide an authoritative, up-to-date guide in all areas of health and safety. The contributing authors are recognized specialists in their fields and each has drawn on his or her personal knowledge and experience in compiling the text, emphasizing those facets most relevant …

HAZOP Guide to Best Practice Guidelines to Best Practice for the Process and Chemical Industries 3rd edition. This book is intended to provide guidance on a specific technique developed for use in the process and chemical industries. The technique described is HAZOP (hazard and operability) study, a detailed method for systematic examination of a well-defined process or operation, either planned …

Safety Professionals Reference and Study Guide by W. David Yates. This book is written to assist you in achieving that ultimate designation as a safety professional. It includes such topics as History of the Safety Profession, Regulations, OSHA Record Keeping, Particulates and Gases, Toxicology, Industrial Hygiene, Ventilation, Noise, Illumination, Biological Hazards, Thermal Stressors, Personal Protective Equipment, Math Review, Statistics for the Safety Professional, …

A Quick Guide to Health and Safety by R Gilbert. Health and safety issues now impose upon almost every part of business life. The system of enforcement is managed and implemented in the UK by The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) – but at times it can be difficult to know exactly which bits of this elaborate spider’s web should …