Health and safety in the workplace

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

Crime, Violence, and Global Warming introduces the many connections between climate change and criminal activity.

This edited collection explores disease transmission and the ways that the designed environment has promoted or limited its spread.

When accidents occur in the oil and gas industry, the impacts can be profound.

The complexity of today's large organisations, businesses, and social institutions defeats management approaches based on monolithic thinking.

This new edition builds on the success of the first edition.

The authoritative articles in this book represent the state-of-the-art in arsenic research.

Construction Superintendents: Essential Skills for the Next Generation is the first college-level textbook designed to prepare you to take on a site supervisor role on a complex jobsite.

Are you complying with health and safety regulations in the workplace?

Technological risk and the process of explaining risks to the public have become major public issues.

Safety at Work features articles from 25 specialist contributors written in association with the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.

Provides knowledge, understanding and guidance to the detailed and complex requirements of health and safety legislation as applied to the construction industry.

One essential characteristic of life is the exchange of matter and energy between organisms and their environment.

Risk Assessment Explore the fundamentals of risk assessment with references to the latest standards, methodologies, and approaches The Second Edition of Risk Assessment: A Practical Guide to Assessing Operational Risks delivers a practical exploration of a wide array of risk assessment tools in the contexts of preliminary hazard analysis, job safety analysis, task analysis, job risk assessment, personnel protective equipment hazard assessment, failure mode and effect analysis, and more.

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.

Bullying is an increasing problem in the workplace.

The Environmental Management Revision Guide: For the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management is the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management.

Next Generation Safety Leadership illustrates practical applications that bring theory to life through case studies and stories from the author's years of experience in high-risk industries.

The Annotated Dictionary of Construction Safety and Health covers the most common types of risks or hazards that impact the safety and health of construction workers.

In a representative study made of European workers, twenty-eight per cent of employees reported that stress affects their health and their performance at work.

Nuclear Safety provides the methods and data needed to evaluate and manage the safety of nuclear facilities and related processes using risk-based safety analysis, and provides readers with the techniques to assess the consequences of radioactive releases.

Research Methods in Occupational Health Psychology: Measurement, Design, and Data Analysis provides a state-of-the-art review of current issues and best practices in the science of Occupational Health Psychology.

This text focuses on the applied physiology of work in modern industry.

Written by an engineer for engineers, this book is both training manual and on-going reference, bringing together all the different facets of the complex processes that must be in place to minimize the risk to people, plant and the environment from fires, explosions, vapour releases and oil spills.

This practical guide-and popular reference-helps you evaluate the efficiency of your company's current safety and health processes and make fact-based decisions that continually improve overall performance.

Almost all the major accident investigations--Texas City, Piper Alpha, the Phillips 66 explosion, Feyzin, Mexico City--show human error as the principal cause, either in design, operations, maintenance, or the management of safety.

This edited book presents a significant and timely contribution to our understanding of a broad range of issues pertaining to COVID-19 and its relationship to occupational safety, health and well-being (OSHW) in the global construction industry.

This book provides descriptions of current laboratory accreditation schemes and explains why these schemes fall short of assuring data purchasers that the data produced from accredited laboratories are always quality products.

Unique in its focus, this book provides an evidence-based framework for assessing work-related neurological and psychological injuries.

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM Regulations 2007) is a revision of a major piece of legislation within the wide portfolio of construction-related legislation.

Preventable dust explosions continue to occur in industry in spite of significant research and practice efforts worldwide over many years.

This book puts together a body of very recent information never before presented in one volume on the design of post-release mitigation systems.

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This book addresses smoke management in enclosures and provides a platform for understanding the principles of smoke propagation and spread, heat release rate, and the effect of sprinklers on suppression.

An increase in major natural disasters has led to heightened concerns about utility operations and public safety.

Occupational health psychology (OHP) involves the application of psychology to improving the quality of work life and to promoting and protecting the safety, health and well-being of employees.

The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history.

First-line managers have to maintain the integrity of facilities, control manufacturing processes, and handle unusual or emergency situations, as well as respond to the pressures of production demand.

This book provides safety professionals and risk managers with a step-by-step, illustrated guide to identifying and preventing occupational hazards in any job.

An essential guide that offers an understanding of and the practices needed to assess and strengthen process safety culture Essential Practices for Developing, Strengthening and Implementing Process Safety Culture presents a much-needed guide for understanding an organization's working culture and contains information on why a good culture is essential for safe, cost-effective, and high-quality operations.

This text guides the reader through the many forms of shiftwork, adopting a broad definition as being any regularly-taken employment outside the "e;day working window"e; 06.

Pressure from consultants, insurers, trainers or those supporting National & International Standards seem to create the feeling that somehow you haven't done enough to ensure people are safe yet.

In the US, UK and Europe there is in excess of one notifiable dust or electrostatic explosion every day of the year.

This book studies the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as an advocate for greater environmental responsibility and analyses the major achievements and outcomes of two landmark conferences - Stockholm (1972) and Rio (1992) - which set the agenda for the future role of the UNEP.

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.