Health & Safety Issues

Within the last fifty years the performance requirements for technical objects and systems were supplemented with: customer expectations (quality),...

Every year, thousands of emergency medical services (EMS) vehicle collisions cause significant property damage, injury, and deathunderscoring the n...

Society has become more educated on the impacts on human health and environment, and there has been a noticeable decrease in the acceptance of this...

Society has become more educated on the impacts on human health and environment, and there has been a noticeable decrease in the acceptance of this...

The conventional interpretation of safety, known as Safety-I, denotes a condition where as little as possible goes wrong, and the focus of practica...

This new edition comes after about 15 years of development in the field of safety science and practice. The book addresses the question of how to i...

Office ergonomics whether we realize it or not directly or indirectly affects every one of us. It is the study of the work we do, the environment...

Office ergonomics whether we realize it or not directly or indirectly affects every one of us. It is the study of the work we do, the environment...

Risk-based, Management-led, Audit-driven, Safety Management Systems, explains what a safety management system (SMS) is, and how it reduces risk in ...

The leading book on the subject of occupational health & safety revised in line with recent UK legislation and practice. New to this edition is...

The leading book on the subject of occupational health & safety revised in line with recent UK legislation and practice. New to this edition is...

Are you a practicing occupational hygienist wondering how to find a substitute organic solvent that is safer to use than the hazardous one your com...

Are you a practicing occupational hygienist wondering how to find a substitute organic solvent that is safer to use than the hazardous one your com...

This collection covers essential concepts in the management of coastal disasters, outlining several field surveys of such events that have taken pl...

Manual of Environmental Management is a practical guide for those involved in the control and reduction of environmental impacts in organisations. ...

Systems thinking tells us that human error, violations and technology failures result from poorly designed and managed work systems. To help us und...

This book explores the stress faced by public safety professionals across an array of occupational fields, such as police, correctional officers, p...

This book explores the stress faced by public safety professionals across an array of occupational fields, such as police, correctional officers, p...

This book reboots the conversation about all technologies relating to robot safety. It covers key features of industry standards, relevant governme...

This book covers techniques in the chemical laboratory and safety procedures that are crucial to making the laboratory a safe workplace. The book i...

The field of risk science continues to learn from the long history of events to develop principles and practices that enable individuals, organizat...

The field of risk science continues to learn from the long history of events to develop principles and practices that enable individuals, organizat...

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM Regulations 2007) is a revision of a major piece of legislation within the wide port...

Leading with Safety defines the practices, tools, and systems essential to creating an injury-free workplace, including the role of employees at ea...

MAK values (Maximum Concentrations at the Workplace) and BAT values (Biological Tolerance Values) promote the protection of health at the workplace...

Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did the...

Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did the...

Behavioural safety or behaviour-based safety (BBS) has been around as a concept for several decades and is commonly held to mean directly tackling ...