Safety category: 688 books
Biosecurity
Understanding, Assessing, and Preventing the Threat
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Learn how to assess and prevent biosecurity threats to protect public health and national security
With contributions from experts in all facets of biosecurity, this book explains the fundamental elements of biosecurity as well as the related concepts of biosafety and biosurety, detailing how...
Introduction to Environmental Management
for the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This endorsed handbook is directly aligned to the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management, with each element of the syllabus explained in detail.
Includes sample NEBOSH questions and case studies to aid learning
Up to date and aligned with the revised 2012 specification
Over 100 images,...
by Maryanne Maltby
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
The EU Physical Agents Directive on Noise, which will be implemented into UK law in February 2006, will reduce noise action levels drastically. Under the new regulations, many more industries, which have so far not been associated with high noise levels such as restaurants and call centres, will have...
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...
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...
Resilience Engineering Perspectives, Volume 2
Preparation and Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Preparation and Restoration is the second volume of Resilience Engineering Perspectives within the Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering series. In four sections, it broadens participation of the field to include policy and organization studies, and articulates aspects of resilience beyond initial...
A Life in Error
From Little Slips to Big Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason’s 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human error. In it he presents an engrossing and very personal perspective, offering the reader exceptional insights, wisdom and wit as only James Reason can....
by David D. Woods, Sidney Dekker, Richard Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. The result is a widespread perception of a 'human error problem', and solutions are thought to lie in changing the people or their role in the system. For example, we should reduce the human role with more automation, or regiment...
Resilience Engineering in Practice
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Resilience engineering has since 2004 attracted widespread interest from industry as well as academia. Practitioners from various fields, such as aviation and air traffic management, patient safety, off-shore exploration and production, have quickly realised the potential of resilience engineering...
Small Modular Reactors
Nuclear Power Fad or Future?
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
There is currently significant interest in the development of small modular reactors (SMRs) for the generation of both electricity and process heat. SMRs offer potential benefits in terms of better affordability and enhanced safety, and can also be sited more flexibly than traditional nuclear plants....
Floored!
Real-Life Stories from a Slip and Fall Expert Witness
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
When watching the evening news you can be led to believe that most slip and fall claims are bogus and nothing more than a scam designed to fleece business owners and the insurance industry for money. But not all Plaintiffs are scam artists, and not all victims are seeking to cash in on their injury....
Mary
A Birds Eye View On The Dangers Of Strangers
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Mary the bright yellow canary lives in a tall tree in an African rain forest.
Although she’s not allowed to play outside without her Mum or Dad being with her, Mary adventurously decides to edge herself out of the nest... just to take a look.
A strong gust of wind blows Mary out...
Crime Signals
How to Spot a Criminal Before You Become a Victim
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Crime is never unpredictable.
Before a lie is spoken, a pocket is picked, or an assault is inflicted, each and every criminal gives off silent cues. They can be as subtle as a shrug of the shoulder, a pointed finger, or an averted gaze. But together, they make up a nonverbal language that speaks...
by Lloyd Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Author Lloyd Vaughan is a security expert who has protected such well known people as Jamie Foxx, Queen Noor, and many others. He teaches individuals how you use their instincts to protect themselves before they ever become victims. Mr. Vaughan practices what he preaches - he never has or will carry...