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The bolow are links for some good and useful e_books.
1) International encyclopedia of ergonomics and human factors
Taylor & Francis Ltd | 14 Dec 2000 | English | ISBN: 0748408479 | 2016 pages
Taylor & Francis is delighted to announce the publication of an outstanding new reference work, the International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors edited by Waldemar Karwowski. It is the first encyclopedia in the field and provides a comprehensive and authoritative compendium of current knowledge on ergonomics and human factors and a definitive and powerful resource. It also gives specific information on concepts and tools unique to ergonomics.It consists of approximately 500 entries running to about 2016 pages, published in three volumes and on CD-ROM. The entries are organized alphabetically and written in such a way that the non-expert will get a clear and simple outline of the topic as well as some precise practical information (such as a table of normative anthropometric data). It also includes a bibliography structured by theme.Technical terms are defined (where possible) within entries as well as in a glossary; so both students and professionals should find this invaluable, whether they have ergonomics, engineering, computing or psychology backgrounds. Experts and researchers should also find it an excellent source of information on areas beyond the range of their direct interests.
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2) Angus M. Gunn, «Encyclopedia of Disasters: Environmental Catastrophes and Human Tragedies»
Greenwood Press | ISBN: 031334003X | 2008 | 424 pages
This encyclopedia is a descriptive, illustrated account of disasters, both natural and human-induced, that have occurred throughout the world at different times over the past two thousand years. They include experiences of earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, extremes of weather, droughts, pandemic illnesses, land subsidence and landslides. Most troubling of all is a newcomer to the world of disasters, the terrorist attack. While terrorists have, from time to time in the past, wrought havoc on human environments, the expanded volume and brutality of their activities over the past thirty years has gone beyond all previous acts of violence. Terrorism is the type of disaster that may become increasingly destructive in the future.
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3) Jeremy Stranks "Health and Safety at Work: Key Terms"
Butterworth-Heinemann (2003-02) | ISBN: 0750654465 | 224 Pages
Health and Safety at Work: Key Terms provides instant information to readers on a range of key terms used in health and safety at work. The book, produced in A-Z format, incorporates the principal legal, technical and practical terms derived from statutes, regulations, approved codes, case law and other appropriate publications.
As such, it will be of particular use to health and safety practitioners, those studying for degrees in occupational health and safety and courses run by NEBOSH, and those engaged in enforcement activities, such as Health and Safety Executive inspectors, environmental health officers and fire protection officers.
The key terms referenced and explained include: accident statistics; absolute duties; distance guard; noise-induced hearing loss; oxidising classifications; relevant statutory provisions.
Provides instant information to readers on a range of key terms used in health and safety at workIncorporates in a single source the principal legal, technical and practical terms used in health and safety at work
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4) Jeremy Stranks "Health and Safety Pocket Book"
Butterworth-Heinemann | 2006-08-23 | ISBN: 0750667818 | 464 pages
The Health and Safety Pocket Book is a handy reference tool for practising health and safety professionals, auditors, managers, HR personnel, employee representatives and anyone with health and safety responsibilities.
It is an essential compilation of guidance, data and checklists covering a wide range of health and safety topics, supported by extensive key glossary terms. The A-Z arrangement within the chapters and extensive cross-referencing make the book easy to navigate, while its size and scope make it the ideal volume for ready reference and site visits. The book will also be useful for health and safety courses at all levels.
Key features include:
The principal health and safety legal requirements for every industry
Safety management elements and systems
Checklists for major hazards affecting all industries
A wealth of charts, hard to remember details and data
A glossary of the main concepts of health and safety
A list of important health and safety courses, publications and organisations
Jeremy Stranks has over 40 years' experience in occupational safety and health enforcement, management consultancy and training. He is a founding member of NEBOSH and has lectured on all aspects of health and safety. His company Safety & Hygiene Consultants offers organisations advice in the preparation of Statements of Health and Safety Policy, risk assessment and safety monitoring procedures, together with in-house training for all levels of management. He also undertakes expert witness work in both criminal and civil cases.
* Essential information compiled into a single reference, which can otherwise only be found by consulting various sources
* Concise tabular format making trailing through pages of text unnecessary
* Cheap and portable - ideal for site visits
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5) Environmental Health and Safety Audits
Publisher: Government Institutes | ISBN: 0865878269 | edition 2001 | 713 pages
This expanded edition of Environmental Health and Safety Audits brings you up-to-date on changes in EPA and OSHA auditing policies, issues currently confronting auditing programs, and state-of-the-art strategies for managing and conducting audits. The author discusses new developments in information generation and availability, including new chapters on meeting ISO 14000 auditing guidelines, auditing dilemmas, and auditing tips, and new tools for building a successful audit program, including a seven model program.
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6) Charles D. Reese "Office Building Safety and Health"
Published by CRC Press | Publication date : June 2004 | ISBN: 1566706831 |501 pages
Protecting office workers from safety, health, and security risks at work is a key task of many safety and health professionals, particularly those responsible for the management of very large office complexes and high rise buildings.
This book provides a comprehensive look at office building safety and health. It covers topics such as managing emergencies, safe buildings, and security. It also includes issues such as workers' compensation and OSHA compliance.
The author discusses the most common safety hazards, from electricity to ergonomic issues, as well as accident prevention strategies. In addition, the book includes chapters on environmental health issues associated with the closed nature of office buildings, workplace violence, and security. Checklists for each chapter enable you to easily locate specific topics for quick reference and problem solving. This straightforward presentation of the full spectrum of health and safety topics affecting office buildings will help safety and health professionals, building managers, and human resource directors plan, implement, and maintain effective plans to protect their companies and employees.
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7) Richard Maguire, "Safety Cases and Safety Reports: Meaning, Motivation and Management"
Publisher: Ashgate | ISBN: 0754646491 | edition: 2006 | 176 Pages
The safety case and its associated reports are quickly becoming not only a mechanism for achieving safety goals, but also a valuable decision-support asset, and a vital industrial liability management tool. Recent developments in industry have led to safety cases being frequently required as contractual deliverables as part of large and complex commercial programmes. A safety case consists of a rational argument to justify and demonstrate that a system has a safety program and that it meets its required safety standards. The safety case report is the presentation of the safety program, its arguments and its evidence at a particular point in time. This book, written from personal experience and reference, provides a concentrated source document for assessing and constructing safety cases and safety case reports - from understanding their purposes, through their development and on to their presentation.
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8) Thomas Burns, Serious Incident Prevention
Elsevier | ISBN: 0750675217 | JUN-2002 | 216 pages
This is your guide to creating a proactive, effective prevention process. This book presents a model showing you how to systematically identify and execute the steps needed to make your operations incident-free. Its team-based approach draws every level of the organization into the effort. Serious incidents affect a company's most important and most visible measures of performance, including profitability and company image. Use the author's ground-breaking method for preventing serious incidents, from a team perspective. Whether applied in real-life situations or in the classroom, this method will help you create a safer, more profitable plant. Up to date information and expanded topic coverage is provided in this new edition. There are two new chapters. One covers leveraging the power of behavior-based techniques and the other covers the benefits of developing teamwork skills. New material features case studies of corporations that have achieved a high degree of success from the implementation of Burns' techniques. Additionally, the author has included safety performance scorecards, a practical and effective tool for preventing serious incidents.
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9) Center for Chemical Process Safety, “Inherently Safer Chemical Processes: A Life Cycle Approach”
Wiley-AIChE | 2008 | ISBN: 0471778923 | 412 pages
All the latest practical tools for eliminating or reducing the risks of chemical processes
Learn to take full advantage of inherently safer design, a tested and proven holistic approach to developing, manufacturing, and using chemicals as safely as possible. With this Second Edition, you'll learn the latest strategies to eliminate or significantly reduce the hazards of chemical processes rather than accept those hazards as a given. Specifically, the book shows you how to manage important tasks such as:
Substituting less harmful chemicals at the development stage
Moderating the hazards of chemicals and manufacturing processes
Using safer processing methods for manufacturing
Simplifying plants to make them more user friendly
This Second Edition features the latest developments and practical tools that inherently safer design offers, including:
Methods for developing and implementing inherently safer processes and plants
Techniques for measuring and evaluating inherent safety
Real-world examples illustrating the benefits of inherently safer processes
Trade-offs and conflicts among the hazards considered in identifying inherently safer options
The Role of inherent safety in process safety management programs
In addition to learning effective approaches for evaluating and implementing inherent safety, you'll also learn inherent safety's limits. Filled with all the latest information and tactics, Inherently Safer Chemical Processes allows you to fully leverage and reap the benefits of this proven and increasingly popular technique for managing the risk associated with chemical processing.
Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) was established by the AIChE in 1985 to study and develop engineering and management practices that help prevent or mitigate catastrophic process safety accidents. CCPS publications provide the latest guidelines for the production, storage, and handling of flammable, explosive, and reactive materials. With the help of the CCPS, companies can operate facilities safely and measure their own practices against today's most accepted industry practices.
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10) Management and Engineering of Fire Safety and Loss Prevention: Onshore and offshore, by Bhr Group Ltd.
Routledge; 1 edition | English | December 31, 1990 | ISBN: 1851666761 | 295 Pages
“Description : The early development of quantified risk analysis took place largely in the aerospace and nuclear industries. In these industries there is a readily definable ‘top event’ (airplane crash, reactor meltdown) whose consequences are regarded as being wholly unacceptable. For this reason the safety case tends to be based heavily on probabilistic arguments; that is to say it must be demonstrated that the ‘top event’ has only a certain (low) probability of occurring. The safety case does not tend to rely on demonstrating that the consequences of the top event are in some way tolerable. The situation in the process industries is different with the application of quantified risk assessment having a greater emphasis on the examination of incident consequences. That this is so is related to the fact that it is not economic, nor is it necessary from a safety viewpoint, to construct process plant such that leakage of hazardous product has a ‘negligible’ probability. For an offshore installation it is necessary to demonstrate that process leakage cannot by itself or via an escalation of the incident lead to significant loss of life or platform loss. For small onshore chemical plants it may simply be necessary to show that such leakage cannot generate a hazard to the surrounding population...”
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11) Explosion Hazards in the Process Industry
Publisher: Gulf Publishing | Pages: 439 | 2005-10-15 | ISBN 0976511347
Explosions in the process industries injure or kill hundreds, if not thousands, of workers every year. They occur in process plants, refineries, platforms and pipelines all over the world. Millions of dollars are spent repairing damages, replacing equipment and rebuilding facilities in the wake of this destruction. The loss of human life adds another dimension to these tragedies. This book explores different types of explosions that can occur in a facility and the necessary steps to guard against them. A clear set of preventative measures, rules and standards combine to make this book a convenient guide to real-world applications. Additional theoretical issues in the use of probabilistic equations and scenarios make this book an absolute neccesity for process industry safety.
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12) Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster
Routledge; 5 edition | ISBN: 0415428653 | February 15, 2009 | ISBN: 0415428653
The expanded fifth edition of "Environmental Hazards" provides a balanced overview of all the major rapid-onset events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century. It integrates cutting-edge material from the physical and social sciences to demonstrate how natural and human systems interact to place communities of all sizes, and at all stages of economic development, at risk. It also shows how the existing losses to life and property can be reduced.Part One of this established textbook defines basic concepts of hazard, risk, vulnerability and disaster. Critical attention is given to the evolution of theory, to the scale of disaster impact and to the various strategies that have been developed to minimize the impact of damaging events. Part Two employs a consistent chapter structure to explain how individual hazards, such as earthquakes, severe storms, floods and droughts, plus biophysical and technological processes, create distinctive patterns of loss throughout the world. The ways in which different societies make a positive response to these threats are placed in the context of ongoing global change.This extensively revised edition includes: an entirely new and innovative chapter explaining how modern-day complexity contributes to the generation of hazard and risk; additional material supplies fresh perspectives on landslides, biophysical hazards and the increasingly important role of global-scale processes; and, the increased use of boxed sections allows a greater focus on significant generic issues and offers more opportunity to examine a carefully selected range of up-to-date case studies. Each chapter now concludes with an annotated list of key resources, including further reading and relevant websites. "Environmental Hazards" is a well-written and generously illustrated introduction to all the natural, social and technological events that combine to cause death and destruction across the globe. It draws on the latest research findings to guide the student from common problems, theories and policies to explore practical, real-world situations. This authoritative - yet accessible - book captures both the complexity and dynamism of environmental hazards and has become essential reading for students of every kind seeking to understand the nature and consequences of a most important contemporary issue.
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13) Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing - 5 Volume Set
Publisher: CRC | Pages: 3640 | 2005-11-01| ISBN 0824755634 | PDF | 41 MB
Collecting information of vital interest to chemical, polymer, mechanical, electrical, and civil engineers, as well as chemists and chemical researchers, this Encyclopedia supplies nearly 350 articles on current design, engineering, science, and manufacturing practices—offering expertly written articles on technologies at the forefront of the field to maximize and enhance the research and production phases of current and emerging chemical manufacturing practices and techniques.
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