Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually?

Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America.

Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories.

Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories.

Talking Safety summarises in a short user-friendly read the key element of safety leadership - the management and supervisor 'walk and talk'.

Talking Safety summarises in a short user-friendly read the key element of safety leadership - the management and supervisor 'walk and talk'.

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.

The construction industry is vital to any national economy; it is also one of the industries most susceptible to workplace incidents.

The construction industry is vital to any national economy; it is also one of the industries most susceptible to workplace incidents.

The second edition of Environmental Health and Housing has been completely updated to cover the contemporary issues in public health that have emerged in recent years.

The second edition of Environmental Health and Housing has been completely updated to cover the contemporary issues in public health that have emerged in recent years.

Adopting a strategic approach to risk management can maximize competitiveness and profitability.

Adopting a strategic approach to risk management can maximize competitiveness and profitability.

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.

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 book holds the proceedings of the Conference on Applications of Structural Fire Engineering (ASFE 2017), held on September 7-8, 2017, in Manchester, UK.

This book holds the proceedings of the Conference on Applications of Structural Fire Engineering (ASFE 2017), held on September 7-8, 2017, in Manchester, UK.

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.

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.

This innovative book aims to bring the science of safety into a simple and practical approach to investigating workplace incidents.

This innovative book aims to bring the science of safety into a simple and practical approach to investigating workplace incidents.

This book is directly aligned to the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management, which is a qualification aimed primarily at those in business who influence the environmental performance of their organisation by the decisions that they make as managers or the actions that they take as operators.

This book is directly aligned to the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management, which is a qualification aimed primarily at those in business who influence the environmental performance of their organisation by the decisions that they make as managers or the actions that they take as operators.

Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities.

Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities.

This insightful book addresses recovery as a comprehensive concept for prevention of health-threats in modern societies through active lifestyles.

For many centuries, people have tried to learn about the state of their health.