Industrial Health Safety category: 514 books
Occupational Safety and Health
Fundamental Principles and Philosophies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Most occupational safety and health books explain how to apply concepts, principles, elements, tools of prevention and develop interventions, and initiatives to mitigate occupational injuries, illnesses and deaths. This is not a how-to book. It is a book that addresses the philosophical basis for...
by Raymond J. Colvin
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Guidebook to Successful Safety Programming is the first "how to" guide to present the elements and activities necessary for successful safety, health, and environmental programs in any company or organization. The book provides case histories that demonstrate how successful programs were...
Simplicity in Safety Investigations
A Practitioner's Guide to Applying Safety Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This innovative book aims to bring the science of safety into a simple and practical approach to investigating workplace incidents. As a basis, it uses the ideas of some of the great safety science thinkers of our time. These include Sidney Dekker, Todd Conklin, Erik Hollnagel, Daniel Kahneman, James...
Safety-II in Practice
Developing the Resilience Potentials
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm. The purpose of traditional safety management is therefore to find ways to ensure this ‘freedom’. But as socio-technical systems steadily have become larger and less tractable, this has become harder to do. Resilience engineering pointed...
Contemporary Ergonomics 2007
Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Ergonomics (CE2007), 17-19 April 2007, Nottingham, UK
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Presenting the Proceedings of the Ergonomics Society's annual conference, the series embraces the wide range of topics covered by ergonomics. Individual papers provide insight into current practice, present new research findings and form an invaluable reference source. A wide range of topics are covered...
Naked Safety
Exploring The Dynamics of Safety in a Fast-Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Workplace safety has never been seen as sexy, clever or cool.
Fraught with legislative hurdles, ambiguous policy and complex procedures, despite its alleged importance safety has lost its way. For many organisations safety is seen as burdensome and bureaucratic and has become little more than...
Ambulatory Surgery Center Safety Guidebook
Managing Code Requirements for Fire and Life Safety
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Ambulatory Surgery Center Safety Guidebook: Managing Code Requirements for Fire and Life Safety helps guide ASC administrative and security staff meet the requirements and standards of both federal and state authorities, including the Life Safety Code, a critical designation for facilities participating...
Safety Culture and High-Risk Environments
A Leadership Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book provides leaders in high risk industries a better understanding of how their values and behaviors can influence the organization's safety culture and improve its capacity to bounce back from failure. Examples are illustrated through case studies and practical tools are provided to evaluate...
Pre-Accident Investigations
An Introduction to Organizational Safety
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Time-pressed, professionals looking for practical guidance to shape their current or future safety programs should use this book. Pre-Accident Investigations: An Introduction to Organizational Safety helps to identify complex potential incidents before they take place. Based around the ’New View’...
How Safe is Safe Enough?
Technological Risks, Real and Perceived
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Every time an airplane crashes, a gas line explodes, a bridge collapses, or a contaminant escapes the public questions whether the benefits that technology brings are worth its risks. Written in laymen’s language, How Safe Is Safe Enough? explores the realities of the risks that technology presents...
by Geoff Simpson, Tim Horberry
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The consideration of human factors issues is vital to the mining industry. As in other safety-critical domains, human performance problems constitute a significant threat to system safety, making the study of human factors an important field for improving safety in mining operations. The primary purpose...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Managing Tourist Health is a seminal study which combines a range of state of the art reviews of the issues facing tourism managers and professionals in the fast growing area of tourist health and safety. An international range of contributors, each a specialist in their chosen field, have written...
by CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
This book helps advance process safety in a key area of interest. Currently, no literature exists which is solely dedicated to process safety for the bioprocessing industry. There are texts, guidelines, and standards on biosafety at the laboratory level and for industrial hygiene, but no guidelines...
by HSE Health and Safety Executive
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 1999
This study looks at:
The general impact of human error and behaviour;
How workers' physical and mental health can be affected by these and other factors;
Practical ideas on how to identify, assess and control risks arising from such issues; and
Case studies detailing how...