Health and safety in the workplace

This book provides a summary of the main obstacles for creating and maintaining high standards of health and safety in higher education and research organisations.

For decades, researchers have examined the job stressors and their outcomes for individuals and organizations.

This book covers system safety methods related to occupational health and safety.

"e;Uberization,"e; "e;digitalization,"e; "e;platform economy,"e; "e;gig economy,"e; and "e;sharing economy"e; are some of the buzzwords that characterize the current intense discussions about the development of the economy and work around the world, among both experts and laypersons.

The only book to not only discuss the technicalities of the European REACH chemicals registration process, but also to directly address the resulting business risks and business solutions.

We are experiencing the greatest global shift in the world of work for a century.

Housing is a social determinant of health and this book aims to provide a concise source of the theory and evidence on safe and healthy housing to inform students, academics, public and environmental health practitioners, and policy-makers, nationally and internationally.

The book provides a data-driven approach to real-world crew resource management (CRM) applicable to commercial pilot performance.

This book will offer companies in the food industry a comprehensive guide to preparing for a British Retail Consortium Standard evaluation (Issue 6).

FROM THE PREFACEThis book brings together (in one text) all of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's regulatory requirements for making safe and proper confined space entries.

Risk science is becoming increasingly important as businesses, policymakers and public sector leaders are tasked with decision-making and investment using varying levels of knowledge and information.

Burnout is a common metaphor for a state of extreme psychophysical exhaustion, usually work-related.

The repair of deteriorated, damaged and substandard civil infrastructures has become one of the most important issues for the civil engineer worldwide.

This book presents a powerful hybrid intelligent system based on fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms and related intelligent techniques.

In the last 15 years, the field of fire and gas mapping has grown extensively, yet very little is published on the subject.

The book demonstrates how Resilient Health Care principles can enable those on the frontline to work more effectively towards interdisciplinary care by gaining a deeper understanding of the boundaries that exist in everyday clinical settings.

This book covers fire and extinguishing theory and reliability theory and how to validate any survey within the field of engineering.

The latest edition of Protecting Personnel at Hazardous Waste Sites brings together a wide range of occupational safety and health recommendations and practices directly applying to hazardous waste site cleanups.

The Second Edition of the Wiley Guide to Chemical Incompatibilities provides chemists, technicians, and engineers with a thorough, lightening-quick resource to use during experimental preparation and in the event of an emergency.

Society has become more educated on the impacts on human health and environment, and there has been a noticeable decrease in the acceptance of this risk by workers and the public.

This accessible reference introduces firefighting and fire safety systems on ships and is written in line with the IACS Classification Rules for Firefighting Systems.

Engaging with some of the most debated topics in contemporary organizations, Health at Work: Critical Perspectives presents a critical, contingent view of the healthy employee and the very notion of organizational health.

Written by Adrian Belcham, author of Manual of Environmental Management, this is the essential guide to prepare you for the IEMA Associate Membership Exam and NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management.

Burnout is a common metaphor for a state of extreme psychophysical exhaustion, usually work-related.

With industrial systems becoming ever more mechanized and reliant on advanced technology, the complexity of equipment, especially in risky industries, is increasing on a daily basis.

Workplace stress and burnout is a multi-billion-dollar problem affecting organisations.

Protecting our environment has never been more important than it is today in the wake of climate change and the ever-increasing demand on natural resources due to the expanding world population.

Actively Caring for Safety: The Psychological Science of Injury Prevention outlines proactive applications of applied behavioural science and humanism (i.

It is widely acknowledged that there is an urgent need to transform our housing stock to a better energy performance level.

Office ergonomics - whether we realize it or not - directly or indirectly affects every one of us.

How do accidents and disasters occur?

The book considers what makes an excellent face-to-face health and safety contact in the workplace, and why these contacts are a fundamental building block of any strong, caring, and empowering workplace culture.

This book addresses the reliability, risk, and safety issues of real industrial systems with application of the latest reliability and risk-based modeling.

The EU Physical Agents Directive on Noise, which will be implemented into UK law in February 2006, will reduce noise action levels drastically.

The rising cost of illness and disability benefits are one of today's biggest social and labour market challenges.

Nanotechnology safety is the practice of handling engineered nanomaterials in production and manufacturing.

This special volume of Advances in Parasitology gives a comprehensive overview of the practical procedures involved in all aspects of global mapping.

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.

Bringing the hard-to-quantify aspects of lived experience to analysis, and emphasizing what might be lost in interventions if cultural insights are absent, this book includes case studies from across the Asia and Pacific regions -Bangladesh, Malaysia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Tuvalu and the Cook Islands.

The process of food inspection relies on an inspector's understanding of the intrinsic hazards associated with individual foods.

Exploring why prison officers leave His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the processes and trajectories involved in returning to 'civilian life', this book examines the reasons that prison officers want to leave HMPPS and how they transition back to 'civvy street'.

Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States.

'Protection against harmful bioaerosol is one of today's major concerns.

Health and Safety at Work: Key Terms provides instant information to readers on a range of key terms used in health and safety at work.

This influential text was fully revised and updated for the second edition with the addition of substantial new material, and takes the reader, in a logical sequence, through the main areas of ergonomics relevant to design, in a way that allows ergonomics to be integrated with all aspects of the design process.

The purpose of this book is to demonstrate how a Training-Within-Industry (TWI) Job-Program could reduce human factor-related harm in construction.

The key to success and reaching peak performance is integrating three processes to optimize business through the use of human performance improvement tools, lean thinking, operational excellence, along with a strong organizational culture as the underpinning.

Architecture and Social Behavior (1977) is a groundbreaking study that presents the findings from a five year programme of research concerned with evaluating the impact of architectural design on behavior.