This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety at Work will help you prepare for the written assessments on the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (2019 specification).
Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics provides the essential knowledge for the hazard evaluation of large outdoor fires, including wildland, WUI (wildland-urban interface), and urban fires.
This edited volume is an up-to-date guide for students, policy makers and engineers on earthquake engineering, including methods and technologies for seismic hazard detection and mitigation.
The book supplements Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis by providing the failure rate data needed to perform a chemical process quantitative risk analysis.
Provides managers, architects, plant engineers, technicians, and others with a concise background in the principles of fire protection and property loss control (a new chapter on life safety elements was added to the second edition).
As leaders increasingly understand the importance of good safety practice to support their business objectives, safety and health practitioners develop better tools and solutions.
This textbook is directly aligned to the NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management, with each element of the syllabus explained in detail.
The fast and easy way to score your best on the Firefighter Exam In addition to physical tests of strength, agility, and coordination, firefighters must also pass a difficult written test that requires serious preparation to fare well, and many applicants fail to succeed.
This textbook on fire dynamics provides a comprehensive description of fuels involved in fires, definitions related to fire, thermodynamics for fire calculations, basics of transport processes and fundamental aspects of combustion related to fire, physical descriptions of premixed and non-premixed flames, detailed analysis of the characteristics of fires from solid and liquid fuels, including ignition, spread and burning rates and physical aspects of fire plumes, compartment fires and dust fires.
This book provides an essential reference on the current state of the art in this field covering topics as diverse as physics, chemistry, toxicology and human behaviour.
Tested techniques for designing fire-resistant structuresStructural Fire Loads bridges the gap between prescriptive and performance-based methods for the design of fire-resistant buildings.
This book aims to take the reader through all aspects of fire safety and management in residential settings, from origin and ignition, risk assessment, protection and prevention, as well as comparing effective enforcement options from across all parts of the UK.
Fire Safety Law provides building-owners, managers, individual leaseholders, mortgage-lenders, landlords, and anyone involved in the purchase or sale of a flat situated within a multi-occupied block, with practical, yet comprehensive and well-researched information regarding the subject of fire safety and the associated responsibilities, obligations and rights.
Essential Bushfire Safety Tips provides scientifically verified bushfire safety information, clearing a path of understanding through the maze of policies and tangle of misconceptions and opinions.
Actionable strategies for the design and construction of fire-resistant structuresThis hands-on guide clearly explains the complex building codes and standards that relate to fire design and presents hands-on techniques engineers can apply to prevent or mitigate the effects of fire in structures.
This book provides essential understanding of flows in fire and smoke dynamics in enclosures, covering combustion, heat transfer and fire suppression in more detail than other introductory books.
This important new book, the first of its kind in the fire safety field, discusses the economic problems faced by decision-makers in the areas of fire safety and fire precautions.
The author of Heat ';captured words from the heart' in this collection of stories and firsthand accounts of life in the FDNY from fifteen of New York's Bravest (Library Journal).
This is the fascinating story of the development of early British steam fire engines by a renowned expert on emergency services vehicles and equipment.
Fire is rarely out of the headlines, from large natural wildfires raging across the Australian or Californian countrysides to the burning of buildings such as the disasters of Grenfell tower and Notre Dame.
Fire is rarely out of the headlines, from large natural wildfires raging across the Australian or Californian countrysides to the burning of buildings such as the disasters of Grenfell tower and Notre Dame.
Three years after Roger Kennedy retired as director of the National Park Service, from his Santa Fe home he watched as the Cerro Grande Fire moved across the Pajarito Plateau and into Los Alamos.
This book presents selected papers from the 3rd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management Program of the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, in collaboration with academic institutions and organizations across the world.
Gathering the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Disaster Prevention and Control (CADPC), held in Johor Baru, Malaysia, on April 25-27, 2025, jointly with the 3rd International Conference on Durability of Building and Infrastructures for Smart City (DuraBI), this book covers topics related to disaster prevention and control, such as disaster preparedness, assembled rapid disaster relief, geological hazards, earthquake-resistant buildings, mudslides, flood control and risk reduction, rocky slope, disaster prediction, prevention and control, application of Big Data in disaster rescue, and post-disaster reconstruction technology.
This book presents selected papers from the 3rd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation, and Management Program of the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, in collaboration with academic institutions and organizations across the world.
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of seismic engineering, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 3rd International Workshop on Energy-Based Seismic Engineering (IWEBSE), held in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 21–24, 2025.
This book presents selected papers from the 3rd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management Program of the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, in collaboration with academic institutions and organizations across the world.
This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 9th International Colloquium on Performance, Protection & Strengthening of Structures Under Extreme Loading & Events (PROTECT), held in Singapore on August 13-16, 2024.
This book presents selected papers from the 3rd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation, and Management Program of the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, in collaboration with academic institutions and organizations across the world.
