Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

Risk assessment is the key to successful management of health and safety at work.

Architecture and Health recognizes the built environment and health as inextricable encouraging a new mind-set for the profession.

The Confederation Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers.

This collected volume of authoritative articles represents the state-of-the-art in arsenic research.

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

In 2009, cabin crew in the BASSA union embarked on a historic, two-year battle against British Airways which was seeking to impose reduced crew levels and to transform working conditions.

The book presents a detailed assessment of the health science of lead and the human health risk assessment models for lead's human health impacts, followed by an account of various regulatory efforts in the United States and elsewhere to eliminate or reduce human toxic exposures to lead.

Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an extensive re-working of the material from the earlier edition.

Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries: Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews, Third Edition, describes the responsibilities, methods, and documentation required for the performance of qualitative hazard analysis for industrial and commercial processes, specifically Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), What-If, and Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) reviews.

This book offers an extensive look into the ways living through the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened our understanding of the crises people experience in their relationships with work.

Electrical Safety and the Law describes the hazards and risks from the use of electricity, explaining with the help of case studies and accident statistics the types of accidents that occur and how they can be prevented by the use of safe installations, equipment and working practices.

From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution inspired millions of people beyond the territory of Russia.

Collective Bargaining and Productivity: The Longshore Mechanization Agreement provides a meticulous analysis of the transformative effects of collective bargaining on productivity within the Pacific Coast longshore industry.

This book is devoted to the efforts of Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs), their employers and supportive professional bodies world-wide in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This collection calls for improved technical communication for the public through an embodied, situated understanding of environmental risk that promotes social justice.

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Updated to account for ISO 55000,Benchmarking Best Practices for Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management, Third Edition, now includes an overview of this seminal and long-awaited standard and identifies the specific points where ISO 55000 will impact maintenance and reliability.

With the advancements in sensor and computation technologies, connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) services are being tested and deployed on public roads, sharing the road with human- driven vehicles (HVs).

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Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated.

This book explores theory and practice in the complex policy area of privately rented housing in England, with a particular focus on environmental and public health.

For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer.

A clear and accessible text on work physiology, this book focuses on important issues in the modern working world.

The aim of the monograph is to present a modern and original approach towards designing and implementation of effective solutions that ensure an induction towards positive climate change.

Labor in the Twentieth Century provides the comparative method of reviewing labor in five advanced democratic countries.

Community Wage Patterns offers an insightful analysis into the dynamics of wage levels and structures within Los Angeles County, providing a case study that extends its relevance to broader economic contexts.

Holden is one of the few brands that has an emotional grip on Australia (Qantas being another).

Museums and Well-being outlines the historical development of well-being within museums and offers a critical engagement with this field from a museum studies perspective.

The book will take a systematic look at nanoparticle risks within the paradigm of risk assessment, consider the limitations of this paradigm in dealing with the extreme uncertainties regarding many aspects of nanoparticle exposure and toxicity, and suggest new methods for assessing and managing risks in this context.

Unionism in the United States was quite successful during and after World War II, especially during the golden years of American capitalism (1947-73) as workers' wages increased quite dramatically in a number of industries.

This book is based on the FDA Food Code and will teach the food service manager and employees every aspect of food safety, HACCP & Sanitation from purchasing and receiving food to properly washing the dishes.

This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being.

Studying for exams, working in teams, writing detailed yet succinct reports and importantly time management aren't second nature to most, so this book provides clear guidance and will be an essential tool for anyone taking a health and safety course.

The definitive guide to distribution and transmission line technology-fully revised for the latest standardsThoroughly updated to reflect the 2017 National Electrical Safety Code (NESC ), this authoritative resource explains the principles and practices of electric transmission and distribution line construction, operation, and maintenance.

Accidents and cases of occupational ill-health are commonly associated with aspects of human behaviour and the potential for human error.

A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights.

Why are unions weaker in the US than they are in Canada, despite the countries'' many similarities?

The trend toward greater decentralization of governance activities, now accepted as commonplace in the West, has become a worldwide movement.

Damage from noise exposure of sufficient intensity and duration is well established and hearing loss may be temporary or permanent.

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.

Recognized as an authoritative treatment of an important subject area, and presented in a conversational and straightforward style, Industrial Hygiene Simplified, Second Edition is an updated edition of the original, well-received textbook.

Complemented by an estimating tool spreadsheet based on a fixed set of chemicals to assist in risk estimations, Probability of Ignition of a Released Flammable Mass converts a "e;best guess"e; to a calculated value based on available information and current technology.

Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, Andrew Walder's neo-traditional image of communist society in China will be of interest not only to those concerned with China and other communist countries, but also to students of industrial relations and comparative social science.

Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, Eighth Edition presents the latest updates on the unexpected, but predictable, loss of containment and explosion hazards from chemicals and their admixtures and actual accidents.

There is currently significant interest in the development of small modular reactors (SMRs) for the generation of both electricity and process heat.

Managing Electrical Safety provides an overview of electric basics, hazards, and established standards that enables you to understand the hazards you are likely to encounter in your workplace.