Health and safety in the workplace

Ernsting's Aviation and Space Medicine applies current understanding in medicine, physiology and the behavioural sciences to the medical challenges and stresses that are faced by both civil and military aircrew, and their passengers, on a daily basis.

Disaster medicine is a broad and dynamic field that encompasses the medical and surgical response to mass casualty incidents including rail, air, and road traffic accidents; domestic terrorism; and pandemic outbreaks.

Winnerof the 2011 BMA book awards: medicine categoryIn the five decades since its first publication, Hunter's Diseases of Occupations has remained the pre-eminent text on diseases caused by work, universally recognized as the most authoritative source of information in the field.

Beyond the Factory Gates examines the issue of asbestos and health in the USA between the early 1900's to the mid-1970s.

Health economics is concerned with the study of the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions.

Written to provide clinicians, educators, researchers, and students in rehabilitation with a comprehensive overview of the theory, practice, and evidence base of goal setting, this first-of-its-kind reference provides an authoritative, state-of-the-art knowledge of the practice.

A clear and accessible text on work physiology, this book focuses on important issues in the modern working world.

Even though most organizations have extensive safety, health, and environmental protocols in place, things often go wrong.

The two-volume Handbook of Environmental Health and Safety has been a standard reference for over 20 years.

Every organization must comply with occupational health and safety regulations.

Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Principles: for Oil, Gas, Chemical and Related Facilities is a general engineering handbook that provides an overview for understanding problems of fire and explosion at oil, gas, and chemical facilities.

In the last twenty years considerable progress has been made in process safety, particularly in regard to regulatory compliance.

2010 was a defining year for the offshore oil and gas industry in the United States.

Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries: Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews, Third Edition, describes the responsibilities, methods, and documentation required for the performance of qualitative hazard analysis for industrial and commercial processes, specifically Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), What-If, and Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) reviews.

In this important reference work, Zeliger catalogs the known effects of chemical mixtureson the human body and also proposes a framework for understanding and predicting theiractions in terms of lipophile (fat soluble) / hydrophile (water soluble) interactions.

Recent global developments have fundamentally changed the landscape for conducting businesses and undertaking social transactions.

Liberally illustrated with actual design examples, this book demonstrates how people acquire and interpret information and examines the factors that undermine this process.

In the 20 years since the publication of the first edition of Bodyspace the knowledge base upon which ergonomics rests has increased significantly.

With definitions from areas such as toxicology, industrial hygiene, environmental compliance, environmental engineering, and occupational medicine the Lewis Dictionary of Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health contains THE MOST definitions for the words, related phrases, and terms encountered in these fields.

Although radiation accidents are rare and often complex in nature, they are of great concern not only to the patient and involved medical staff, but to the media and public as well.

Accident: an undesired event that results in loss.

The Illustrated Dictionary and Resource Directory of Environmental and Occupational Health, Second Edition is a one-of-a-kind, comprehensive reference source for the vast and diverse collection of interrelated terms and topics that encompass the fields of environmental science, occupational health and safety, and preventive medicine.

Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an extensive re-working of the material from the earlier edition.

Is your school ready to respond to a crisis?

This book introduces Vision Zero, a commitment to create workplaces free from serious accidents, harm and work- related diseases while delivering excellence in Safety, Health and Wellbeing (SHW).

In the world of work, accountability can often translate into punishment.

In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma.

In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma.

This textbook - now thoroughly revised and updated - provides a practical guide for those in training, or practising within, occupational health nursing.

This textbook - now thoroughly revised and updated - provides a practical guide for those in training, or practising within, occupational health nursing.

This book will advance the understanding of leadership beyond the inherited myths and modalities of command and control.

This book will advance the understanding of leadership beyond the inherited myths and modalities of command and control.

Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm.

Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm.

This new textbook fills an important gap in the existing literature, in that it prepares construction engineering and built environment students for their first experience of the jobsite.

This new textbook fills an important gap in the existing literature, in that it prepares construction engineering and built environment students for their first experience of the jobsite.

Professional safety is in danger of extinction.

Professional safety is in danger of extinction.

Prevention of Accidents at Work collects papers presented at the 9th International Conference on the Prevention of Accidents at Work (WOS 2017) held in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 3-6, 2017, organized by the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava.

Prevention of Accidents at Work collects papers presented at the 9th International Conference on the Prevention of Accidents at Work (WOS 2017) held in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 3-6, 2017, organized by the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava.

The public health movement involved numerous individuals who made the case for change and put new practices into place.

The public health movement involved numerous individuals who made the case for change and put new practices into place.

Occupational Safety and Hygiene V contains selected contributions from the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SHO 2017, 10-11 April 2017, Guimaraes, Portugal).

Occupational Safety and Hygiene V contains selected contributions from the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SHO 2017, 10-11 April 2017, Guimaraes, Portugal).

In a present where there are countless opportunities for the spread of exotic diseases, the expansion and creation of far more illness in our global population through globalization and rapid transportation, and the contamination of water, air and land, we find ourselves accountable.

This book provides chemists with technical insight on pyrotechnics and explosives.

This book provides chemists with technical insight on pyrotechnics and explosives.

This book explores the formation of small and medium-sized construction company's (SME) compliance with health and safety issues in developing countries.

This book explores the formation of small and medium-sized construction company's (SME) compliance with health and safety issues in developing countries.