Safety category: 688 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
This important book provides a comprehensive account of the advances that have occurred in fire science in relation to a broad range of materials. The manufacture of fire retardant materials is an active area of research, the understanding of which can improve safety as well as the marketability of...
by Heinrich Groh
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
This book makes Hazardous or Electrical Area Classification simple. In plants processing flammable materials, every effort is made to avoid the escape of such materials and in addition, stringent measures are taken to exclude sources of ignition. A complex array of standards surround this topic which...
Human Factors Methods and Accident Analysis
Practical Guidance and Case Study Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book provides an overview of, and practical guidance on, the range of human factors (HF) methods that can be used for the purposes of accident analysis and investigation in complex sociotechnical systems. Human Factors Methods and Accident Analysis begins with an overview of different accident...
The Sun Above the Clouds
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
In Paul Hebert’s inspirational memoir, The Sun Above the Clouds, travel back to a day when men cleared wooded homesteads by hand and horse but raised their families with violence. Watch Paul escape his upbringing to find joy and purpose in being a lineman, skiing, travel, nature, and love, after...
by James Reason
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an ’organizational accident’. These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological systems operating in hazardous circumstances. They stand in sharp contrast to ’individual accidents’ whose damaging...
Survive the Unthinkable
A Total Guide to Women's Self-Protection
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Approximately 1.9 million women are physically assaulted annually in the United States alone. In Survive the Unthinkable, Tim Larkin empowers women to understand that surviving a potential attack isn't about being physically bigger, faster, or stronger; it's about knowing how to self-protect, not...
Dangerous Instincts
Use an FBI Profiler's Tactics to Avoid Unsafe Situations
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Fear can't help you in a dangerous situation. A former FBI profiler shows you what can.
As one of the world's top experts on psychopathy and criminal behavior, Mary Ellen O'Toole has seen repeatedly how relying on the sense of fear alone often fails to protect us from danger. Whether you are...
by Neal Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2018
Some of the best self defense advice around in three bestselling books!
Self Defense Tips Everyone Should Know
Combatives Instruction
Self Defense Solutions
In these books you will learn:
How to properly take responsibility for your personal safety
How to formulate a self...
Evaluation of Rail Technology
A Practical Human Factors Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Rapid advancements in train control and in-cab technologies provide significant opportunities for rail operators to improve efficiency and enhance their operations. New technologies often provide elegant solutions to existing problems or new capabilities for the operator. However, new technologies...
Assessing Command and Control Effectiveness
Dealing with a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Assessing Command and Control Effectiveness: Dealing with a Changing World offers a description of the current state of Command and Control (C2) research in imperfect settings, showing how a research process should assess, analyse and communicate results to the development cycle of methods, work,...
by Alexander B. Morgan, Charles A. Wilkie
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Due to the emphasis on replacing halogenated flame retardants with alternate technologies, this handbook contains in one place all of the current commercial non-halogenated flame retardant technologies, as well as experimental systems near commercialization.
This book focuses on non-halogenated...
Fitting the Human
Introduction to Ergonomics / Human Factors Engineering, Seventh Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This new edition undergraduate introductory textbook follows the motto of the previous versions: "Solid information, easy-to-read, easy to understand, easy to apply." The aim remains the same: "Human engineering" workplaces, tools, machinery, computers, lighting, shiftwork, work...
by Daniel P. Jenkins, Neville A. Stanton, Guy H. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
'Complex sociotechnical systems' are systems made up of numerous interacting parts, both human and non-human, operating in dynamic, ambiguous and safety critical domains. Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a structured framework specifically developed for considering the development and analysis of...
Just Culture
Restoring Trust and Accountability in Your Organization, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
A just culture is a culture of trust, learning and accountability. It is particularly important when an incident has occurred; when something has gone wrong. How do you respond to the people involved? What do you do to minimize the negative impact, and maximize learning? This third edition of Sidney...