Health & Safety Issues

Explains how to implement the best safety practices and why they work Reviews from the Third Edition "An excellent piece of work." —Safety Health P...

Work, so fundamental to well-being, has its darker and more costly side. Work can adversely affect our health, well beyond the usual counts of inju...

Shipping is a pillar of global trade, with 90 per cent of the world’s trade in goods and raw materials carried by ship. Despite the economic benefi...

The book is designed to help trainers design and deliver health and safety training in a fun and high-impact way, such that trainees engage with th...

The Enterprise Culture of the 1980s helped transform economies of Western Europe, but left behind a legacy of stress, both for managers and shop fl...

Many 21st century operations are characterised by teams of workers dealing with significant risks and complex technology, in competitive, commercia...

Many 21st century operations are characterised by teams of workers dealing with significant risks and complex technology, in competitive, commercia...

Nearly one third of all occupational diseases recognised annually in the EU are related to exposure to chemical substances and it is widely accepte...

The Crisis Management Cycle is the first holistic, multidisciplinary introduction to the dynamic field of crisis management theory and practice. By...

The second edition of a bestseller, Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New ...

The latest in a series focused on improving health conditions, this volume addresses work environments, bringing together diverse sources of litera...

Managing Health at Work reviews recent developments in the field of workplace health from a practical point of view. It is aimed at managers and he...

With workplace stress and burnout at record levels, everyone needs to understand the mental health challenges we face at work. But these challenges...

This manual aims to contribute to a culture of safety awareness among fisherfolk in the Caribbean, reduce the number of accidents and increase the ...

The technological age has seen a range of catastrophic and preventable failures, often as a result of decisions that did not appropriately consider...

First Published in 1998. The development of disaster planning in schools and colleges usually goes hand in hand with an element of safety planning:...

Given the increase in the ageing population and the evolvement of the Human-Computer Interaction field to a much more humanistic approach, debate i...

An influential guide to maritime emergencies and the current strategies that can be employed to cope with the immediate after effects and ramificat...

This collection calls for improved technical communication for the public through an embodied, situated understanding of environmental risk that pr...