Occupational Health and Safety

Occupational Ergonomics A Practical Approach

Occupational Ergonomics A Practical Approach

Occupational Ergonomics A Practical Approach by Cheryl A. Wilhelmsen. The book contains all the important building blocks of occupational ergonomics – it revisits the fundamentals of workplace ergonomics and takes you to step by step through more advanced workplace evaluations. The Book is a collaborative effort that merges engineering principles with practical applications to improve worker health, safety, and morale. …

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Job Hazard Analysis A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond

Job Hazard Analysis A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond

Job Hazard Analysis A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond 2nd edition by James E. Roughton. This book methodically develops the risk assessment basis needed for ANSI/AIHA Z10 and other safety and health management systems. It is supported by numerous real-life examples, end of chapter review questions, sample checklists, action plans, and forms. The books include Safety Culture: An Innovative, …

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Electrical Safety of Low Voltage Systems

Electrical Safety of Low Voltage Systems

Electrical Safety of Low Voltage Systems by Massimo Mitolo. The book’s audience consists of electrical engineering students who need to know the principles of electrical safety as well as professional engineers who are involved in the bonding and grounding of power systems. Background requirements include knowledge of a.c. electric circuits, algebra, complex numbers, and basic calculus. Electrical safety may be …

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Risk Assessment A Practical Guide to Assessing Operational Risks

Risk Assessment A Practical Guide to Assessing Operational Risks

Risk Assessment A Practical Guide to Assessing Operational Risks by Bruce Hollcroft, Bruce K. Lyon, and Georgi Popov. The book provides the fundamentals of risk assessment, with many practical applications, for undergraduate and graduate students and employed safety, health, and environmental professionals who recognize that they are expected to have risk assessment capabilities. This text serves the needs of professors …

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Career Guide to the Safety Profession

Career Guide to the Safety Profession

A career guide to the safety profession by American Society of Safety Engineers Foundation. The Career Guide to the Safety Professionbprovides an overview of the variety of careers available in the safety profession. It also provides guidance in the selection of undergraduate and graduates academic programs, and profiles some safety professionals now employed in both the public and private sectors. …

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Introduction to Process Safety for Undergraduates and Engineers

Introduction to Process Safety for Undergraduates and Engineers

Introduction to Process Safety for Undergraduates and Engineers by CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety). This book is intended to be used as reference material for either a stand-alone process safety course or as supplemental material for existing curricula. This book is not a technical book; rather, the intent of the material is to familiarize the student or an engineer new …

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Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Chemical Industry

Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Chemical Industry

Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Chemical Industry by Frank R. Spellman and Revonna M. Bieber. This book is written to help professionals and nonprofessionals associated with the chemical industry to have access to the most current information and should be used as a reference book for quick answers and complicated questions. This book is an effort to simplify …

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Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Industrial Workplace

Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Industrial Workplace

Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Industrial Workplace by Frank R. Spellman. Throughout this book, the focus is placed on the need for professionalism, scientific analysis of risks and safety measures, concern for human and environmental needs, and real-world examples of effective occupational safety and health management. Materials included within the text include pertinent terminology and information, case studies, …

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Accident Incident Prevention Techniques

Accident Incident Prevention Techniques

Accident Incident Prevention Techniques Second Edition by Charles D. Reese. The 2nd edition of Accident/Incident Prevention Techniques provided clear, comprehensive guidance on how to mitigate the cost, in personnel, and to the bottom line, of accidents/incidents in the workplace. The objectives of the book are to Reduce death from work-related injuries, Reduce nonfatal work-related injuries, Reduce work-related assaults, and to …

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Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design

Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design

Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design by Jane I. Lataille. A clear and concise reference guide on integrating fire protection design, Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design encompasses not only the basic information on the functions, design, and applications of fire protection systems; but also reveals how this information can and should be integrated with every other major engineering discipline. …

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A Guide to Fire Safety Engineering

A Guide to Fire Safety Engineering

A Guide to Fire Safety Engineering by Don Christian British Standards Institution-BSI (2003). This document aims to provide an introduction and initial understanding of the principles of fire safety engineering and its relationship to fire precautions. It also suggests why such engineered solutions might be offered in achieving the objective of satisfactory safety levels in case of fire. This document …

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IOSH A Healthy Return Books

IOSH A Healthy Return Books

IOSH A Healthy Return Good practice guide to rehabilitating people at work. The aim of this guide is to give occupational safety and health practitioners a grounding in rehabilitation and to provide them with practical support. Others, including managers and human resources personnel, will also find it useful. The guide contains: – an overview of rehabilitation – a ‘Work adjustment …

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