Industrial Health category: 2135 books
by Thomas D Schneid
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
In today's rapidly changing workplace, safety and loss prevention professionals cannot always "go by the book" for the answers to new and unique problems and issues. When there is no tried-and-true solution to a problem, safety and loss prevention professionals must think outside of the box of conventional solutions and develop new and creative sol
by Adrian Belcham
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Manual of Environmental Management is a practical guide for those involved in the control and reduction of environmental impacts in organisations. This comprehensive and practical guide takes you through the main environmental challenges organisations face and the improvement strategies used to manage...
by Gary E. Musgrave Ph.D, Axel Larsen, Tommaso Sgobba
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Progress in space safety lies in the acceptance of safety design and engineering as an integral part of the design and implementation process for new space systems. Safety must be seen as the principle design driver of utmost importance from the outset of the design process, which is only achieved...
by Rolf K. Eckhoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Explosion Hazards in the Process Industries, Second Edition, delivers the most current and comprehensive content for today’s process engineer. Process safety and petrochemical engineers inherently accept that there is a risk of explosions when working on process facilities such as plants and refineries....
Human Fatigue Risk Management
Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Human Fatigue Risk Management: Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry teaches users everything they need to know to mitigate the risk of fatigued workers in a plant or refinery. As human fatigue has been directly linked to several major disasters, the book explores the API RP 755 guidelines...
The Sustainable Laboratory Handbook
Design, Equipment, Operation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The first comprehensive guide to modern laboratory planning in ten years to address both construction and operating aspects.
Many of the 30 authors are affiliated with the European Association for Sustainable Laboratory Technologies (EGNATON), which has also endorsed this ready reference. This expert...
Physical Hazard Control
Preventing Injuries in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
People deal with physical hazards every day at the workplace, in their homes, on the roadways, and in many other areas. In any situation, people face potential hazards-often more than one hazard in each situation-and these hazards often lead to serious injury. But it is possible to mitigate the effects...
Basic Offshore Safety
Safety induction and emergency training for new entrants to the offshore oil and gas industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Comprehensive insight into the offshore oil and gas industry for those intending to choose it as a career
Full syllabus coverage for OPITO BOSIET, FOET, MIST and IMIST courses
Produced in full colour with over 180 images
Basic Offshore Safety covers everything that newcomers to the offshore...
Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management
Enhancing Individual and Team Performance in Fire and Emergency Services
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research that has been conducted within Australia, funded by the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre. The chapters source and contextualize their own research practice within the context of the international research literature. Therefore, while...
Construction Reliability
Safety, Variability and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
This book provides answers to the following problems: how to identify the most probable critical failures; how to describe and use data-concerning materials that are either heterogeneous, time-variant, or space-variant; how to quantify the reliability and lifetime of a system; how to use feedback...
by Linda K. Stroh, J. Stewart Black, Mark E. Mendenhall
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
Although firms have been sending employees on international assignments for decades, systematic understanding is sorely lacking. This volume looks at such critical aspects of the assignment process as the selection process, the training required, factors that affect adjustment, performance and commitment,...
Layer of Protection Analysis
Simplified Process Risk Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Layer of protection analysis (LOPA) is a recently developed, simplified method of risk assessment that provides the much-needed middle ground between a qualitative process hazard analysis and a traditional, expensive quantitative risk analysis. Beginning with an identified accident scenario, LOPA...
by CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Incidents That Define Process Safety describes approximately fifty incidents that have had a significant impact on the chemical and refining industries' approaches to modern process safety. Events are described in detail so readers get a fundamental understanding of the root causes, the consequences,...
System Safety for the 21st Century
The Updated and Revised Edition of System Safety 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Summarizes the current state of "front-end" risk-control techniques
Many approaches to risk control are possible. However, only through careful reading, evaluation, and study can one make the best choice of a practical philosophy for a system safety program. The goal is to apply the best...