Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

The repair of deteriorated, damaged and substandard civil infrastructures has become one of the most important issues for the civil engineer worldwide.

This book presents a powerful hybrid intelligent system based on fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms and related intelligent techniques.

One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "e;reform and openness"e; will lead to political liberalization.

'A breath of fresh air' - Norman FinklesteinWorkers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world.

Closing Sysco presents a history of deindustrialization and working-class resistance in the Cape Breton steel industry between 1945 and 2001.

Jane Collins explores a phenomenon of growing importance in developing nations--the labor scarcity that emerges as farmers in Latin America and elsewhere are forced by economic necessity to seek seasonal work away from their home communities.

In the last 15 years, the field of fire and gas mapping has grown extensively, yet very little is published on the subject.

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.

This book covers fire and extinguishing theory and reliability theory and how to validate any survey within the field of engineering.

The latest edition of Protecting Personnel at Hazardous Waste Sites brings together a wide range of occupational safety and health recommendations and practices directly applying to hazardous waste site cleanups.

The Second Edition of the Wiley Guide to Chemical Incompatibilities provides chemists, technicians, and engineers with a thorough, lightening-quick resource to use during experimental preparation and in the event of an emergency.

Society has become more educated on the impacts on human health and environment, and there has been a noticeable decrease in the acceptance of this risk by workers and the public.

This accessible reference introduces firefighting and fire safety systems on ships and is written in line with the IACS Classification Rules for Firefighting Systems.

Applications of Nuclear and Radioisotope Technology: For Peace and Sustainable Development presents the latest technology and research on nuclear energy with a practical focus on a variety of applications.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "e;unproductive citizens.

Assembled in Japan investigates one of the great success stories of the twentieth century: the rise of the Japanese electronics industry.

Engaging with some of the most debated topics in contemporary organizations, Health at Work: Critical Perspectives presents a critical, contingent view of the healthy employee and the very notion of organizational health.

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This guide demystifies the often invisible impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world, from labor conditions to development by stealth, to the role of elites and the cultural impacts on both the visitor and the visited.

Explosion Hazards in the Process Industries, Second Edition, delivers the most current and comprehensive content for today's process engineer.

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.

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

Great Figures in the Labour Movement is a historical account of ten leading persons involved in the British Labor Movement.

To live is to communicate, and to communicate with confidence is a craft that one will do well to master early rather than later in life.

Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia.

With industrial systems becoming ever more mechanized and reliant on advanced technology, the complexity of equipment, especially in risky industries, is increasing on a daily basis.

Workplace stress and burnout is a multi-billion-dollar problem affecting organisations.

Protecting our environment has never been more important than it is today in the wake of climate change and the ever-increasing demand on natural resources due to the expanding world population.

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

Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history.

Actively Caring for Safety: The Psychological Science of Injury Prevention outlines proactive applications of applied behavioural science and humanism (i.

Liberating Temporariness?

It is widely acknowledged that there is an urgent need to transform our housing stock to a better energy performance level.

An accessible but thought-provoking introduction to labour law.

Office ergonomics - whether we realize it or not - directly or indirectly affects every one of us.

How do accidents and disasters occur?

The book considers what makes an excellent face-to-face health and safety contact in the workplace, and why these contacts are a fundamental building block of any strong, caring, and empowering workplace culture.

This book addresses the reliability, risk, and safety issues of real industrial systems with application of the latest reliability and risk-based modeling.

The EU Physical Agents Directive on Noise, which will be implemented into UK law in February 2006, will reduce noise action levels drastically.

The rising cost of illness and disability benefits are one of today's biggest social and labour market challenges.

Nanotechnology safety is the practice of handling engineered nanomaterials in production and manufacturing.

Handbook of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, Second Edition is a fully updated comprehensive reference on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), which reflects the latest research and technological advances in the field from the last five years.

The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System: A Worker-based Model for Community Investment articulates a new model for economic security based upon steelworkers' pension provisions and labor politics after World War II.

This special volume of Advances in Parasitology gives a comprehensive overview of the practical procedures involved in all aspects of global mapping.

A clear and concise reference guide on integrating fire protection design, Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design encompasses not only the basic information on the functions, design, and applications of fire protection systems; but also reveals how this information can and should be integrated with every other major engineering discipline.

Using an easy-to-use checklist format, author Jeffrey Stull, an internationally recognized expert in the area of protective clothing, examines the types of industrial and fire hazards that warrant PPE protection.