Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D.

Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War.

Nanotechnology is a new and emerging discipline that is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary.

Health economics is concerned with the study of the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions.

Operating at a high level of fuel efficiency, safety, proliferation-resistance, sustainability and cost, generation IV nuclear reactors promise enhanced features to an energy resource which is already seen as an outstanding source of reliable base load power.

Fachkräfte für Rückengesundheit erhalten vielfältige praxistaugliche Anregungen zum konkreten Vorgehen im betrieblichen Alltag sowie eine evidenzbasierte Grundlage für die Planung und Durchführung gesundheitsfördernder Angebote.

It is crucial for process safety professionals to be aware of best practices for post merger integration at any level.

Overpressure Protection in the Process Industry: A Critical View provides a practical and pragmatic guidance for anyone dealing with overpressure protection in the process industry.

Since the early 1970s there has been a considerable growth in the literature published on the topic of human reliability.

Rethinking Bhopal: A Definitive Guide to Investigating, Preventing, and Learning from Industrial Disasters is the go-to source for anyone seeking to learn how to improve process safety management (PSM) through applying fundamental asset reliability and incident investigation concepts.

Current safety and risk management guidelines necessitate that organizations develop and formally manage their understanding and knowledge of the standards and protocols of risk management.

Liberating Temporariness?

The construction industry in developing economies is responsible for creating deliverables such as infrastructure and housing while providing a means of livelihood to an ever-increasing number of management and frontline workers.

Physics of Nuclear Reactors presents a comprehensive analysis of nuclear reactor physics.

Expert Trevor Kletz examines the causes and aftermaths of numerous plant disasters--almost every one of which could have been prevented.

Crew Resource Management, Second Edition continues to focus on CRM in the cockpit, but also emphasizes that the concepts and training applications provide generic guidance and lessons learned for a wide variety of "e;crews"e; in the aviation system as well as in the complex and high-risk operations of many non-aviation settings.

Once a busy if impoverished center for the anthracite coal industry, northeastern Pennsylvania exists today as a region suffering inexorable decline--racked by economic hardship and rampant opioid abuse, abandoned by young people, and steeped in xenophobic fear.

This book equips the reader with a compact information source on all the most recent methodological tools available in the area of reliability prediction and analysis.

This book discusses the fundamental skills, techniques, and tools of auditing, and the characteristics of a good process safety management system.

Global economy and its business environment, and thus the world of work, have recently been influenced by demographic and social changes, globalisation, as well as rapid development and introduction of novel, sophisticated and previously unknown technologies and new business models, especially in the context of the so-called fourth industrial revolution.

An authoritative account of how the workplace has changed, and why it has changed, for both workers and employers.

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

Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors is the third volume in the JSME Series on Thermal and Nuclear Power Generation, which presents a comprehensive view of the latest research and activities from around the globe.

Animal products are vital components of the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa.

Hearing and understanding sound- auditory processing- greatly enriches everyday life and enhances our ability to perform many tasks essential to survival.

In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S.

Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath.

The Handbook of U.

Today, human factors and ergonomics professionals worldwide contribute to the design and evaluation of tasks, jobs, products, environments, and systems in order to make them compatible with the needs, abilities, and limitations of people.

In this volume, Alexander sketches the history of organized labor in the countries of Uruguay and Paraguay.

Japan's Quest for Nuclear Energy and the Price it has Paid: Accidents, Consequences, and Lessons Learned for the Global Nuclear Industry identifies major accidents in Japan that have happened at different stages of the nuclear fuel cycle in Japan, assesses the underlying causes of nuclear accidents, and identifies other systemic problems in the nuclear industry.

Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization.

Clear and effective instruction on MADM methods for students, researchers, and practitioners.

Whether the public or the environment is at risk is a commonly discussed question in numerous areas of public life, most recently and publicly with regard to issues like BSE, passive smoking and the dangers from pesticides in food production.

For more than thirty years Nelson Lichtenstein has deployed his scholarship--on labor, politics, and social thought--to chart the history and prospects of a progressive America.

A wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 1970s roiled urban communities.

Animal products are vital components of the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa.

Written by Adrian Belcham, author of Manual of Environmental Management, this is the essential guide to prepare you for the IEMA Associate Membership Exam and NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management.

Technology and the loss of manufacturing jobs have many worried about future mass unemployment.

The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries.

In this book author Michele P.

Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life.

Drawing on empirical work and secondary analysis from the UK and Finnish construction industries, this book contributes a deep-rooted analysis of construction industry harms that originate from corporate-industrialstate processes.

This collection of brief essays by thought-leaders, scholars, activists, psychologists, and social scientists imagines new workplace structures and policies that promote decent and fair work for all members of society, especially those who are most vulnerable.

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

Israel's 1977 political election resulted in a dramatic defeat for the ruling Labor movement, which had enjoyed more than four decades of economic, political, and cultural dominance.

In today's rapidly changing workplace, safety and loss prevention professionals cannot always "e;go by the book"e; for the answers to new and unique problems and issues.