ilość książek w kategorii: 2566
Fire and Explosion Hazards Handbook of Industrial Chemicals
ISBN: 9780815514299 / Angielski / Twarda / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The handbook provides ready information on the fire and chemical reactivity of commonly used chemicals. Its purpose is to provide basic information important to the safe handling of chemicals and to help provide guidance in responding to a hazardous materials incident, in particular, incidents involving reactive chemicals and materials posing fire and explosion hazards. The volume has been written for chemical handling specialists, first responders to hazardous materials incidents, and firefighters. The basic definition used for a hazard materials incident is any situation that may...
The handbook provides ready information on the fire and chemical reactivity of commonly used chemicals. Its purpose is to provide basic information im...
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1509,38 zł |
Errors in Organizations
ISBN: 9780805862911 / Angielski / Twarda / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the significance and prevalence of errors in organizations, there has been no attempt within the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology to create a single source summarizing what we know regarding errors in organizations and providing a focused effort toward identifying future directions of research. This volume answers that need and provides contributions by researchers who have conducted a considerable amount of research on errors occurring in the work context. Students, academics and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines, i.e., industrial organizational... Despite the significance and prevalence of errors in organizations, there has been no attempt within the field of Industrial and Organizational Psy... |
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684,09 zł |
Biomechanics of the Upper Limbs: Mechanics, Modeling and Musculoskeletal Injuries
ISBN: 9781420091199 / Angielski / Twarda / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is already a wealth of literature covering cumulative trauma disorders and medical management, as well as the biomechanics of manual material handling and lower back problems. However, despite a spike in the number of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) in the upper limbs due to a sharp increase in the amount of computer-related jobs few if any books have focused exclusively on WRMSDs, until now. Biomechanics of the Upper Limbs: Mechanics, Modeling and Musculoskeletal Injuries, Second Edition offers vital information and tools to improve analysis... There is already a wealth of literature covering cumulative trauma disorders and medical management, as well as the biomechanics of manual material... |
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785,43 zł |
Environmental Metal Pollutants, Reactive Oxygen Intermediaries and Genotoxicity: Molecular Approaches to Determine Mechanisms of Toxicity
ISBN: 9780792384489 / Angielski / Twarda / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humans are exposed daily to low concentrations of metals that are released into the environment by both natural and industrial processes. Environmental Metal Pollutants, Reactive Oxygen Intermediaries and Genotoxicity: Molecular Approaches to Determine Mechanisms of Toxicity examines concerns about the acute and/or chronic exposure of humans to concentrations of these metals that are below the threshold levels established by various federal regulatory agencies. Some of these metals are accumulated in various tissues and over time this may result in the accumulation...
Humans are exposed daily to low concentrations of metals that are released into the environment by both natural and industrial processes. Environm...
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585,00 zł |
GIS in Hospital and Healthcare Emergency Management [With CDROM]
ISBN: 9781439821299 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although many books have been published on the application of GIS in emergency management and disaster response, this is the first one to bring together a comprehensive discussion of the critical role GIS plays in hospital and healthcare emergency management and disaster response. Illustrating a wide range of practical applications, GIS in Hospital and Healthcare Emergency Management explores how GIS data is being used to assess need, determine surge capacity, and improve logistics in emergency or disaster scenarios. Leading experts in the field provide authoritative coverage of all... Although many books have been published on the application of GIS in emergency management and disaster response, this is the first one to bring tog... |
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658,75 zł |
Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects [With CD (Audio)]
ISBN: 9781439809686 / Angielski / Twarda / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first edition of Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects received critical acclaim due to the interdisciplinary nature of its content. Editors Ronald Dodson and Samuel Hammar have carefully kept this popular focus while updating and expanding the topics covered in the first edition with the help of internationally known experts. While there are hundreds of books available on many different aspects of asbestos, none contain the encyclopedic, comprehensive coverage you will find here. See What's New in the Second Edition: ... The first edition of Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects received critical acclaim due to the interdiscipl... |
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1064,13 zł |
Medical Error and Harm: Understanding, Prevention, and Control
ISBN: 9781439836941 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent debate over healthcare and its spiraling costs has brought medical error into the spotlight as an indicator of everything that is ineffective, inhumane, and wasteful about modern medicine. But while the tendency is to blame it all on human error, it is a much more complex problem that involves overburdened systems, constantly changing technology, increasing specialization, and a cycle of continual funding shortfalls made even more acute by resource-wasting inefficiencies. Medical Error and Harm: Understanding, Prevention and Control, presents the work...Recent debate over healthcare and its spiraling costs has brought medical error into the spotlight as an indicator of everything that is ineffectiv... |
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339,45 zł |
Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2010: Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2010, Keele,
ISBN: 9780415584463 / Angielski / Miękka / 630 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The broad and developing scope of ergonomics -- the application of scientific knowledge to improve peoples' interaction with products, systems, and environments -- has been illustrated for 25 years by the books in the Contemporary Ergonomics series. Reflecting the name change of the Ergonomics Society to the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors, the peer-reviewed papers in this volume embrace a wide range of issues related to ergonomics. International contributors provide insight into current practice and present new research findings. They cover an array of topics,... The broad and developing scope of ergonomics -- the application of scientific knowledge to improve peoples' interaction with products, systems, and... |
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734,76 zł |
Safety Cases and Safety Reports: Meaning, Motivation and Management
ISBN: 9780754646495 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 and detailed evidence to justify and demonstrate that a system or product is tolerably safe in its use, and that it has a management programme to ensure that this remains so. The...
The safety case and its associated reports are quickly becoming not only a mechanism for achieving safety goals, but also a valuable decision-support ...
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886,78 zł |
Introduction to Design Engineering: Systematic Creativity and Management
ISBN: 9780415555579 / Angielski / Twarda / 417 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designing engineering products - technical systems and/or transformation processes - requires a range of information, know-how, experience, and engineering analysis, to find an optimal solution. Creativity and open-mindedness can be greatly assisted by systematic design engineering, which will ultimately lead to improved outcomes, documentation, and management. This book applies systematic and methodical conceptualization to abstract models of engineering systems. These can be be used as needed for developing candidate solutions. The recommended engineering design process... Designing engineering products - technical systems and/or transformation processes - requires a range of information, know-how, experience, and eng... |
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962,79 zł |
Laboratory Design 4e
ISBN: 9780470505526 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Proven and tested guidelines for designing ideal labs for scientific investigations Now in its Fourth Edition, Guidelines for Laboratory Design continues to enable readers to design labs that make it possible to conduct scientific investigations in a safe and healthy environment. The book brings together all the professionals who are critical to a successful lab design, discussing the roles of architects, engineers, health and safety professionals, and laboratory researchers. It provides the design team with the information needed to ask the right questions and then... Proven and tested guidelines for designing ideal labs for scientific investigations Now in its Fourth Edition, Guidelines for Labo... |
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827,05 zł |
Human-Computer Interaction and Operators' Performance: Optimizing Work Design with Activity Theory
ISBN: 9781439836262 / Angielski / Twarda / 461 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of works authored by leading scientists from the US and Russia, Human-Computer Interaction and Operators Performance: Optimizing Work Design with Activity Theory describes applied and systemic-structural activity theory as it is used to study human-computer interaction, aviation, design, and training. Important from a theoretical and practical perspective, the book describes new analytical and experimental methods in the study of human work. The book facilitates the exchange of ideas between scientists working in ergonomics, human factors,... A collection of works authored by leading scientists from the US and Russia, Human-Computer Interaction and Operators Performance: Optimizi... |
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734,76 zł |
Environmental Health and Safety Audits
ISBN: 9781605907086 / Angielski / Twarda / 686 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new edition of Environmental Health and Safety Audits not only will help you put your company on course toward effective environmental compliance, but also now 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.
This new edition of Environmental Health and Safety Audits not only will help you put your company on course toward effective environmental compliance...
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1040,41 zł |
Usability of Complex Information Systems: Evaluation of User Interaction
ISBN: 9781439828946 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do enterprise systems have complicated search pages, when Google has a single search box that works better? Why struggle with an expense reimbursement system that is not as easy as home accounting software? Although this seems like comparing apples to oranges, as information and communication technologies reach into every industry, the demand for easy-to-use work tools continues to grow. An exploration of cutting-edge approaches for evaluating the usability of complex user interaction, Usability of Complex Information Systems: Evaluation of User Interaction focuses on improving design and...
Why do enterprise systems have complicated search pages, when Google has a single search box that works better? Why struggle with an expense reimburse...
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988,12 zł |
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences Using Real Data
ISBN: 9781439819975 / Angielski / Twarda / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although its roots can be traced to the 19th century, progress in the study of nonlinear dynamical systems has taken off in the last 30 years. While pertinent source material exists, it is strewn about the literature in mathematics, physics, biology, economics, and psychology at varying levels of accessibility. A compendium research methods reflecting the expertise of major contributors to NDS psychology, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences Using Real Data examines the techniques proven to be the most useful in the behavioral sciences. ...Although its roots can be traced to the 19th century, progress in the study of nonlinear dynamical systems has taken off in the last 30 ... |
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202,64 zł |
Environmental and Human Health : Risk Management in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780415601627 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines and discusses multidisciplinary aspects of the impacts that humans had on the physical environment, the biota, and human health, focusing on the scenario of developing and under-developing countries. This book covers such areas as: environmental degradation, pollution, occupational health, risk management, epidemiology and toxicology.
Examines and discusses multidisciplinary aspects of the impacts that humans had on the physical environment, the biota, and human health, focusing on ...
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962,79 zł |
Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A Guide to Efficient and Effective Incident Management, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9781931332514 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Global Classic Is the Most Complete, All-in-One Package
of Book, Toolkit Download, Diagnostic Map, and Online Resources Currently Available for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) It offers the unique breadth, depth and practicality that can only come from six authors with 125+ years of combined global RCA consulting experience. It presents a field-tested system for investigating, categorizing, reporting and trending, and ultimately eliminating the root causes of incidents with quality, reliability, environmental, health, safety, and production-process impacts. ... This Global Classic Is the Most Complete, All-in-One Package
of Book, Toolkit Download, Diagnostic Map, and Online Resources Current... |
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625,23 zł |
Reliability, Risk and Safety - Back to the Future
ISBN: 9780415604277 / Angielski / CD-ROM Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reliability, Risk and Safety: Back to the Future covers topics on reliability, risk and safety issues, including risk and reliability analysis methods, maintenance optimization, human factors, and risk management. The application areas range from nuclear engineering, oil and gas industry, electrical and civil engineering to information technology and communication, security, transportation, health and medicine or critical infrastructures. Significant attention is paid to societal factors influencing the use of reliability and risk assessment methods, and... Reliability, Risk and Safety: Back to the Future covers topics on reliability, risk and safety issues, including risk and... |
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2053,59 zł |
Evaluating Occupational Health and Safety Research Programs: Framework and Next Steps
ISBN: 9780309137959 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each year, approximately 5,000 fatal work-related injuries and 4 million non-fatal injuries and illnesses occur in the United States. This number represents both unnecessary human suffering and high economic costs. In order to assist in better evaluating workplace safety and create safer work environments, the Institute of Medicine conducted a series of evaluations of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) research programs, assessing the relevance and impact of NIOSH's work on improving worker safety and health. Each year, approximately 5,000 fatal work-related injuries and 4 million non-fatal injuries and illnesses occur in the United States. This number r... |
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197,36 zł |
Behavioural Adaptation and Road Safety: Theory, Evidence and Action
ISBN: 9781439856673 / Angielski / Twarda / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite being an accepted construct in traffic and transport psychology, the precise nature of behavioural adaptation, including its causes and consequences, has not yet been established within the road safety community. A comprehensive collection of recent literature, Behavioural Adaptation and Road Safety: Theory, Evidence, and Action explores behavioural adaptation in road users. It examines behavioural adaptation within the context of historical and theoretical perspectives, and puts forth tangible-and practical-solutions that can effectively address adverse behavioural... Despite being an accepted construct in traffic and transport psychology, the precise nature of behavioural adaptation, including its causes and con... |
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709,42 zł |