Safety category: 688 books
by Robert Whittingham
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
The Blame Machine describes how disasters and serious accidents result from recurring, but potentially avoidable, human errors. It shows how such errors are preventable because they result from defective systems within a company. From real incidents, you will be able to identify common causes of human...
Metatheory and Interviewing
Harm Reduction and Motorcycle Safety in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Metatheory and Interviewing: Harm Reduction and Motorcycle Safety in Practicedescribes and applies a unique approach for advancing harm reduction theory. Emily J. Haas and Marifran Mattson argue that using harm reduction as a metatheory to guide qualitative interviews strengthens the use and acceptance...
Falls Aren't Funny
America's Multi-Billion Dollar Slip-and-Fall Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Slip-and-fall accidents are a growing problem. The total cost of these accidents now approaches 80 billion dollars each year, and that number is expected to double within the next decade. In Falls Aren't Funny: America's Multi-Billion Dollar Slip-and-Fall Crisis, author Russell J. Kendzior provides...
by Darren Kay
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
This book aims to provide the reader with 100 practical steps and activities that can be delivered in the workplace, to improve occupational health and safety. It seeks to overcome corporate OHS inertia, by providing direction into the most common safety initiatives that can be implemented quickly, easily...
by Don Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Taking an integrated, systems approach to dealing exclusively with the human performance issues encountered on the flight deck of the modern airliner, this book describes the inter-relationships between the various application areas of human factors, recognising that the human contribution to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Loss prevention engineering describes all activities intended to help organizations in any industry to prevent loss, whether it be through injury, fire, explosion, toxic release, natural disaster, terrorism or other security threats. Compared to process safety, which only focusses on preventing loss...
Risky Work Environments
Reappraising Human Work Within Fallible Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Risky Work Environments provides new insights into the multiple and dynamic trajectories of both near misses and mistakes in complex work environments, based on actual case examples. It also studies the interactions between various activity systems or work practices (design, maintenance, incident...
by Kirk Mahoney, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
From the Foreword by John Loftus, Ultra-marathoner and Safety Consultant:
Why would someone write a running / walking book about SAFETY – managing the unforeseen, the training route, weather, gear, and personal security, about INJURY AVOIDANCE – minimizing hurt and pain to our body and...
Risk Assessment
A Practical Guide to Assessing Operational Risks
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Covers the fundamentals of risk assessment and emphasizes taking a practical approach in the application of the techniques
Written as a primer for students and employed safety professionals covering the fundamentals of risk assessment and emphasizing a practical approach in the application of...
Operational Decision-making in High-hazard Organizations
Drawing a Line in the Sand
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book takes a fresh look at safety decision-making by documenting and examining stories told by front-line managers in three different high-hazard industries: a chemical plant, a nuclear power station and an air-navigation service provider. From Piper Alpha to Deepwater Horizon, accident analysis...
Safer Surgery
Analysing Behaviour in the Operating Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Operating theatres are very private workplaces. There have been few research investigations into how highly trained doctors and nurses work together to achieve safe and efficient anaesthesia and surgery. While there have been major advances in surgical and anaesthetic procedures, there are still significant...
Bowtie Methodology
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Bow Tie Methodology (BTM) consists of two methods, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA), which are connected by a single event. The methodology is holistic and provides the tools and pre-event analysis, which is also called the risk calculations, and post-event analysis, also called...
by Ian Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Plant Design and Operations provides practical guidance on the design, operation, and maintenance of process facilities. The book is based on years of hands-on experience gathered during the design and operation of a wide range of facilities in many different types of industry including chemicals,...
Professional Rope Access
A Guide To Working Safely at Height
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Guides the reader in the development and maintenance of a rope access program
Provides comprehensive guidance for employers, safety managers and rope access technicians to develop, maintain, and manage a rope access program
Offers specific guidance for writing a comprehensive managed fall protection...