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Offshore Safety Management
Implementing a SEMS Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Offshore Safety Management, Second Edition provides an experienced engineer's perspective on the new Safety and Environmental System (SEMS) regulations for offshore oil and gas drilling, how they compare to prior regulations, and how to implement the new standards seamlessly and efficiently. The second...
Ensuring Global Food Safety
Exploring Global Harmonization
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Taking into account toxicity levels at normal consumption levels, intake per kg bodyweight and other acknowledged considerations, each chapter in this book will be based on one or more proven examples. It is intended to provide specific examples and potential improvements to the safety of the world's...
Food Safety Management
Implementing a Food Safety Program in a Food Retail Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
The goal of this book is to show how to build and manage a food safety department that is tasked with ensuring food safety within a food retail business. The experiences of the author as the head of Food and Product Safety at Chick-fil-A will be used as the model. Specifically, the book will discuss...
Healthcare Management Engineering: What Does This Fancy Term Really Mean?
The Use of Operations Management Methodology for Quantitative Decision-Making in Healthcare Settings
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
This Briefs Series book illustrates in depth a concept of healthcare management engineering and its domain for hospital and clinic operations. Predictive and analytic decision-making power of management engineering methodology is systematically compared to traditional management reasoning by applying...
A Practical Guide to Drug Development in Academia
The SPARK Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
"A lot of hard-won knowledge is laid out here in a brief but informative way. Every topic is well referenced, with citations from both the primary literature and relevant resources from the internet." Review from Nature Chemical Biology
Written by the founders of the SPARK program...
by Raymond A. Huml
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
This Brief defines competitive intelligence (CI) as a tool for making investment decisions within the pharmaceutical industry. It provides an overview of processes that the regulatory affairs professional must take into account when evaluating data impacting product-based risk evaluations. These...
by Justin Waring
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This edited volume of original chapters brings together researchers from around the world who are exploring the facets of health care organization and delivery that are sometimes marginal to mainstream patient safety theories and methodologies but offer important insights into the socio-cultural and...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
What is required to make a workplace safe for employees and legally compliant with the Occupation Safety and Health Administration's regulations? Building on the success of the first two editions of Safety and Environmental Management, this updated and expanded third edition discusses the elements...
by Mark A. Friend, Theodore S. Ferry
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Safety and Health Management Planning addresses new regulations and practices to help you achieve safety and health management success. Emphasizing the reduction of costs through cost/benefit analysis, this book covers practical material and real-world examples of common exercises, including safety...
The Australian Dream
Housing Experiences of Older Australians
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Australia is experiencing a significant demographic shift – the proportion of the population that is aged 65 years and older is increasing substantially and will continue to do so. With this shift comes particular housing challenges for older people. The Australian Dream examines the impacts of housing...
by Ernest W. Flick
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
This book contains hundreds of cosmetic and toiletry formulations based on information received from numerous industrial companies and other organizations. Each formulation is indentified by a description of end use. The formulations contains a listing of each raw material, processing procedure, and source of the formula.
Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors
Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors, July 17–21, 2017, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
This book discusses the latest findings on ensuring employees’ safety, health, and welfare at work. It combines a range of disciplines – e.g. work physiology, health informatics, safety engineering, workplace design, injury prevention, and occupational psychology – and presents new strategies...
by Henry T. Greely
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Within twenty, maybe forty, years most people in developed countries will stop having sex for the purpose of reproduction. Instead, prospective parents will be told as much as they wish to know about the genetic makeup of dozens of embryos, and they will pick one or two for implantation, gestation,...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
This paper provides estimates of investment costs, both public and private, required to eliminate chronic dietary energy deficits, or to achieve zero hunger by 2030. This target is consistent with achieving both Sustainable Development Goal 2, to eliminate hunger by 2030, and Sustainable Development...