Safety category: 688 books
Life-Saving Tips For Any Emergency Disaster
Very Important Survival Skills For Dealing With Any Crisis Situation Such As First Aid Emergency, Earthquake Preparedness And Disaster Survival So You Can Properly Plan For Any Calamity, Save Lives And Lessen Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
The very best strategy to prepare for any emergency situation, whether a man-made tragedy or a natural disaster, is to plan for it. Yes, planning for a calamity to happen can be somewhat dismaying as you are conjuring up ideas of it. However, it is the only way you can fully be prepared for it when...
Safe: How to stay safe in a dangerous world
Survival techniques for everyday life from an SAS hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In today's increasingly hostile climate people are anxious about how to keep themselves safe.
Chris Ryan served in the SAS for seven years and in several war zones throughout the world. During this time he was the Regiment's top striker and in 1991 during the infamous Bravo Two Zero mission...
Just Culture
Balancing Safety and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Building on the success of the 2007 original, Dekker revises, enhances and expands his view of just culture for this second edition, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice is created inside organizations. The goal remains the same: to create an environment where learning and accountability...
by James Roughton
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2002
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has updated their recordkeeping requirements for the first time since 1971. This results in a significant number of changes for every employer with ten or more employees, which can often cause confusion and failure to comply. OSHA 2002 Recordkeeping...
Structural Performance
Probability-Based Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This book covers the development of efficient methods for the assessment and the management of civil structures is today a major challenge from economical, social and environmental aspects. Tools for handling uncertainties in loads, geometry, material properties, construction and operating conditions...
OHSAS 18001 Step by Step
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
In this easy-to-understand and timely pocket guide, Naeem Sadiq, examines the practical and managerial issues an organisation faces as it gears up to meet OHSAS 18001 standards of occupational health and safety.
FRAM: The Functional Resonance Analysis Method
Modelling Complex Socio-technical Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Resilience engineering has consistently argued that safety is more than the absence of failures. Since the first book was published in 2006, several book chapters and papers have demonstrated the advantage in going behind 'human error' and beyond the failure concept, just as a number of serious accidents...
by Thomas D. Schneid
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
20 murders every week. 18,000 assaults in the same time. All on the job.
Sharp increases in workplace violence continue to take an unfortunate toll on American business-and its employees, families and communities. Preventative measures may be well-intentioned, but pose troubling conflicts in themselves,...
Never Go to the Hospital Alone
And Other Insider Secrets for Getting Mistake-Free Health Care from Your Doctor and Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
This year 176,445 patients in the U.S. will die due to preventable errors, infections, and medication mistakes. This book explains the simple steps you must take to avoid being one of them.
Safety systems expert Steve Harden shows you how to pick a great doctor and a great hospital for yourself...
Ergonomics Made Easy
A Checklist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2008
Understanding and applying the principles of ergonomics consistently in an organization not only reduces the risk of employee injuries, but it also reduces an organization's costs and increases productivity. This newly updated handbook examines 17 new workplace factors_50 in all_to consider when implementing...
by V. Narayan
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This unique and practical book describes 42 real-life events and/or situations in the careers of the three authors from which they gained insights into the applicable best practices in maintenance and reliability. The authors explain the underlying philosophies where relevant, drawing on the teachings...
Making Supper Safe
One Man's Quest to Learn the Truth about Food Safety
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Food recalls have become so ubiquitous we hardly even notice them. The massive peanut salmonella contamination of 2008–2009 alone killed nine and sickened an estimated 22,500 people; only a few weeks later, contaminated frozen cookie dough sent 35 people to the hospital. These tragic, inexcusable...
Dynamic Risk Assessment
The Practical Guide to Making Risk-Based Decisions with the 3-Level Risk Management Model
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Dynamic Risk Assessment is the key tool to support a holistic risk management framework. This book aims to help employers, managers and staff alike to understand how they can effectively integrate dynamic risk assessment into business management processes and systems to improve safety.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Operating at a high level of fuel efficiency, safety, proliferation-resistance, sustainability and cost, generation IV nuclear reactors promise enhanced features to an energy resource which is already seen as an outstanding source of reliable base load power. The performance and reliability of materials...