Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

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.

Most transport operators have little experience of the regulations surrounding the carriage of dangerous goods.

Designing Coffee Shops and Cafes for Community brings together research, theory, and practical applications for designing coffee shops and cafes as places to enhance community connections.

The #1 Guide to Flight Physiology_Now Updated and Expanded with the Latest INSIGHTS for ENHANCING AIRCREW SAFE PERFORMANCE!

The Subjectivities and Politics of Occupational Risk links restructuring in three industries to shifts in risk subjectivities and politics, both within workplaces and within the safety management and regulative spheres, often leading to conflict and changes in law, political discourses and management approaches.

Nuclear Radioactive Materials in the Oil and Gas Industry comprehensively discusses the TENORMs generated from various types of oil and gas processes and their associated adverse human health effects, effective TENORM waste management strategies, and the quantitative risk analysis.

The curbing of trade union power is often seen as one of the major achievements of Margaret Thatcher's premiership.

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.

Volume 25 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains eight new peer-reviewed papers highlighting key aspects of employment relations from a global perspective.

Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's "e;first line of defense"e; against Communism.

This book argues that, collectively, unions can help shape how the rules governing the global economy are made.

En collaboration avec Hélène Bois, Jean-Paul Rouleau, Gilles Routhier et Jean SextonLes combats de Gérard Dion pour la démocratisation de notre société et la modernisation du Québec feront de ce pionnier des relations du travail l’un des grands artisans de la Révolution tranquille : à preuve, son engagement en faveur de la déconfessionalisation de la CTCC (future CSN), de la réforme de notre système scolaire, de l’obtention du Code du travail en 1964, du droit de grève dans le secteur public et de la défense des intérêts du Québec.

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

This book aims to fill a gap in the current construction health and safety research and discover new knowledge about work stress induced chronic diseases among construction industry professionals.

This is a reprint of ISBN 978-0-901357-46-5Disasters: learning the lessons for a safer world is both a tribute to the victims of past safety failures and a warning against complacency and cutting corners today.

This volume brings together a massive body of much-needed research information on a problem of crucial importance to labor economists, policy makers, and society in general: unemployment among the young.

The broad chronological sweep and comprehensive nature of Reconsidering Southern Labor History set this volume apart from any other collection on the topic in the past forty years.

A central motor of Argentine historical and political development since the early twentieth century, unions have been the site of active citizenship in both political participation and the distribution of social, economic, political, and cultural rights.

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

This work examines the causes of airplane accidents and what private and public policies are needed to improve aviation safety.

Provides guidance to managers, safety professionals, educators and students on having operational risk management systems that meet the requirements of Z10.

This softbound workbook is the ideal guide for readers of Gulatis Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices, 2nd edition, as well as for students in a classroom or seminar/workshop setting.

Significant loss to business occurs through fires in the workplace.

The privatization revolution, profit or revenue sharing, and employee participation in enterprise decision making are some of the major characteristics of modern capitalism.

This book explores the representation of women and their interests in the world of work across four trade unions in France and the UK.

Guides the reader in the development and maintenance of a rope access program Provides comprehensive guidance for employers, safety managers and rope access technicians to develop, maintain, and manage a rope access program Offers specific guidance for writing a comprehensive managed fall protection plan that includes rope access Thoroughly describes how to perform specific rope access maneuvers that can be used to offer greater safety when working at height Shows how a well-managed rope access program can be used as a tool to get more work accomplished at a lower cost and with greater efficiency than conventional methods can achieve Discusses and clarifies unique distinctions of equipment for rope access, as compared with equipment for fall arrest, positioning, and restraint

Thousands of people continue to die from heat.

Identify and Control Safety Hazards on Construction Sites to Reduce Worker Injuries and Increase ProductivityConstruction Safety Engineering Principles: Designing & Managing Safer Job Sites equips architects, engineers, and construction managers with a step-by-step methodology for identifying and controlling hazards before construction starts.

The New Deal Collective Bargaining Policy offers a meticulously detailed exploration of the transformative labor policies that emerged during the early years of Franklin D.

Alexander examines the history of the labor movement in Brazil during its two key phases.

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.

Resonance Self-Shielding Calculation Methods in Nuclear Reactors presents the latest progress in resonance self-shielding methods for both deterministic and Mote Carlo methods, including key advances over the last decade such as high-fidelity resonance treatment, resonance interference effect and multi-group equivalence.

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.

Drawing a transdisciplinary perspective, this book investigates the ways in which gender intersect with rebuilding and post-disaster recovery process.

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

This book explores the formation of small and medium-sized construction company's (SME) compliance with health and safety issues in developing countries.

Dynamic Risk Assessment is the key tool to support a holistic risk management framework.

Occupational Safety and Hygiene IV covers a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to:- Occupational Safety- Risk Assessment- Ergonomics- Management Systems- Physical Environment - Construction Safety, and - Human FactorsThis compilation of papers in the domain of occupational safety and hygiene is mainly based on research works carried

This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption.

In recent years, the Canadian labour movement has undergone fundamental change in response to demands for greater inclusion and representation by women, visible and sexual minorities, and people with disabilities.

Wellbeing is now at the top of almost everyone's agenda and many technical books have been published on the topic.

Ramparts of Resistance examines the experience of British and US workers during the last three decades to show the urgency of the need for a new independent politics of trade unionism.

Based on real-world experience this invaluable guide and reference tells the whole story of maintenance planning from beginning to end in a concise and easy-to-follow manner.

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.

Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction has been specially written for the thousands of students who complete the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety each year.

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.

Interwoven within our semiconductor technology development had been the development of technologies aimed at identifying, evaluating and mitigating the environmental, health and safety (EH&S) risks and exposures associated with the manufacturing and packaging of integrated circuits.

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

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.