Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

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'.

In the summer of 2022, the little-known leader of a small union became a 'working-class hero'.

Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment.

The second edition of the Health and Safety Pocket Book has been fully revised and updated to include all the relevant legal, HSE ACoP/Guidance and practice references.

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.

Examines key aspects of quantifying fire safety: property damage, performance of fire services/measures, fire safety modeling and verification, and stochastic modeling.

Winner of the "e;Outstanding Academic Title"e; recognition by Choice for the 2020 OAT Awards.

Risk, Surprises and Black Swans provides an in depth analysis of the risk concept with a focus on the critical link to knowledge; and the lack of knowledge, that risk and probability judgements are based on.

This collection covers essential concepts in the management of coastal disasters, outlining several field surveys of such events that have taken place in the 21st century, including the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, and the storm surges generated by Hurricane Katrina, Cyclone Nargis, and Typhoon Haiyan.

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.

Against all odds, the miners of Bienfait, Saskatchewan attempted, in 1931, to change their miserable situation by organizing a union.

Silver in healthcare has many different facets and since the early concepts of microbiology of the 1880's, has been developed from usage in surgical clips, staples, foil wound dressings and surgical implants, to the widespread and clinically effective antiseptic wound dressings, sutures, catheters, bone and dental implants, and cardiovascular devices of today.

A leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front lines to help us organize our own workplaces and ';better understand the aims and goals for a resurgent trade union movement and how workers all over the country can join in solidarity with it' (Senator Bernie Sanders).

The Grenfell Tower tragedy was the worst residential fire in London since World War II.

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

Provides a clear road map to instilling a culture of safety excellence in any organization Did you know that accidental injury is among the top ten leading causes of death in every age group?

This timely and comprehensive volume will spur and strengthen public debate over the role of teachers unions in education reform for years to come.

When health and safety regulatory frameworks took their present form in the 1970s, they were seen as a triumph of welfare state intervention.

Work-related stress and resulting sickness absence costs the UK economy about GBP3.

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Home, School and Work: A Study of the Education and Employment of Young People in Britain describes the events during the period of transition from school to work.

How is it possible that the desire for a perfectly safe world with perfectly safe workplaces helps generate the opposite?

Disease, injury, or congenital disorders result in an inability to perform activities of daily living as effectively as others.

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.

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

This book analyses the literary response to the 1926 General Strike and sheds light on the relationship between modernist politics and literature.

In The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age, Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic life in an era of industrial strife.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

There is an urgent need to disseminate ergonomics "e;know-how"e; to the work place.

This unique and practical book describes 42 real-life events and/or situations in the careers of the three authors from which they gained insights into the applicable best practices in maintenance and reliability.

The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011.

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

Environmental health law is a wide-ranging, detailed and complex body of law within the UK.

Safety in the process industries is critical for those who work with chemicals and hazardous substances or processes.

The purpose of this book is to awaken leaders to the unique opportunities now present in the areas typically delegated to Health and Safety.

In the last two decades, the rise of global health studies at universities across the world reflects the interest of a growing generation of students motivated to be involved in progressive global change.

This book explores the transformative power of swarm intelligence and digital innovations in shaping the cities of the future.

Environmental stress caused by water continuously exposes buildings to microbial colonization.

Sie stehen mitten im Leben, verfügen über einen reichen Schatz an beruflicher Erfahrung und wollen endlich die Ideen verwirklichen, die Sie seit Jahren in sich tragen?

Micropolitics and Canadian Business explores the internal structure of industry politics in contemporary Canada.

The International Board for the Certification of Safety Managers (IBFCSM) has designated this text as the Primary Study Reference for those preparing to sit for the Certified Hazard Control Manager (CHCM) and the Certified Hazard Control Manager-Security (CHCM-SEC) Examinations.

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.

In this gripping ethnography, Jeffrey J.

Introduction to Occupational Health in Public Health Practice Bernard J.

From mining to sex work and from the classroom to the docks, violence has always been a part of work.

Analysis of the direction in which Ghana's policy makers will need to steer the economy for Ghana to fulfil the promise of its independence over 50 years ago.

Air Transportation Industry considers the influence of political, legal, economic, social, and technological factors on the developments in the industry.

How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation''s largest port.