Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

This companion to Introduction to Oil and Gas Operational Safety will help you to prepare for the written assessment of the NEBOSH International Technical Certificate in Oil and Gas Operational Safety.

As unions face an ongoing crisis all over the industrialized world, they have often been portrayed as outmoded remnants of an old economic structure.

Advanced Security and Safeguarding in the Nuclear Power Industry: State of the art and future challenges presents an overview of a wide ranging scientific, engineering, policy, regulatory, and legal issues facing the nuclear power industry.

This book on TENR discusses the basic Physics and Chemistry principles of natural radiation.

This new history of British trade unionism offers the most concise and up-to-date account of 300 years of trade union development, from the earliest documented attempts at collective action by working people in the eighteenth century through to the very different world of `New Unionism' and `New Labour'.

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated.

Handbook on Thermal Hydraulics of Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactors, Volume 2, Modelling includes all new chapters which delve deeper into the topic, adding context and practical examples to help readers apply learnings to their own setting.

This second edition of the well-regarded Multiple Choice Questions and Revision Aid in Occupational Medicine continues as a comprehensive revision and study resource for those preparing for professional examinations in occupational health, occupational medicine and occupational health & safety.

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Providing a concise, yet comprehensive, reference on all aspects of industrial exposures and toxicants; this book aids toxicologists, industrial hygienists, and occupational physicians to investigate workplace health problems.

Laying out management and safety procedures that reduce injuries and the aggravation that follows, this book covers hiring, training, and managing employees with injury avoidance in mind.

When the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan reviewed safety-design guidelines for nuclear plants in 1990, the regulatory agency explicitly ruled out the need to consider prolonged AC power loss.

Bridging the gap between human-computer engineering and control engineering, Human Behavior Learning and Transfer delineates how to abstract human action and reaction skills into computational models.

Getting your qualification is just the start of the safety professional's journey towards effective workplace practice.

With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions?

The need for a skilled, motivated and effective workforce is fundamental to the creation of the built environment across the world.

Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used to involve the workforce in decisions at all levels of the organization - whether direct or indirect - conducted with employees or through their representatives.

The Fire Safety and Risk Management Revision Guide: for the NEBOSH Fire Certificate is the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management.

This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries.

The untold story of a British institution'Brilliant.

This social history chronicles the protest movements of early 20th century Glasgow and Western Scotland: “A moving story told with enthusiasm” (Sunday Herald, UK).

Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) is of worldwide significance, and is strongly related to the detection of damage in engineering structures (buildings, bridges, aircrafts, ships, pressure vessels, etc.

How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer''s account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center.

Renowned Marxist scholar Michael Lwy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary.

Despite the general decline of trade unions throughout the Western world, unions in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have prospered.

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.

Capitalism is a dynamic system, continually adapting itself to exploit workers in new ways.

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

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

The 1970s are of particular relevance for understanding the socio-economic changes still shaping Western societies today.

This book brings together in one volume what researchers have learned about workers, employers, and retirees that is important for formulating retirement income policies.

Cross Country Pipeline Risk Assessments and Mitigation Strategies describes the process of pipeline risk management and hazard identification, using qualitative risk assessment, consequence modeling/evaluation, pipeline failure rates, and risk calculations, as well as risk mitigation and control strategies.

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

From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate.

Sylos Labini suggests a strategy of institutional reform to tackle problems of underdevelopment.

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?

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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.

In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labor.

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.