ilość książek w kategorii: 2797
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Practical Machinery Safety
ISBN: 9780750662703 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Practical Machinery Safety aims to provide you with the knowledge to tackle machinery safety control problems at a practical level whilst achieving compliance with national and international standards. The book highlights the major international standards that are used to support compliance with EU regulations and uses these standards as a basis for the design procedures. It looks at the risk assessment processes used to identify hazards and to quantify the risks inherent in a machine. It introduces the concepts of safety categories as defined by standard EN954-1 (Safety of... Practical Machinery Safety aims to provide you with the knowledge to tackle machinery safety control problems at a practical level whilst ac... |
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257,42 |
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Managing Noise and Vibration at Work
ISBN: 9780750663427 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New EU Physical Agents Directives on Noise and Vibration will be incorporated into UK law by February 2006. Explicit action levels for vibration will be introduced, while the action levels for noise will be drastically cut. In order to comply with these Directives, companies need to assess noise and vibration levels and provide necessary protection for their employees. They are also required to monitor and if necessary reduce noise and vibration risks.
Managing Noise and Vibration at Work introduces noise and both hand-arm and whole-body vibration by... New EU Physical Agents Directives on Noise and Vibration will be incorporated into UK law by February 2006. Explicit action levels for vibration will ...
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271,99 |
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Safety with Machinery
ISBN: 9780750667807 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Ridley and Dick Pearce, both recognized specialists in machinery safety, guide the reader through the various standards, regulations and best practices relating to the safe design and use of machinery and show which standard is relevant for which type of machine. Safety with Machinery provides a basic grounding in machinery safety and covers safeguarding philosophy and strategy, typical hazards, risk assessment and reduction, guarding techniques, ergonomic considerations, safe use of equipment and plant layout. All types of safeguards are discussed...
John Ridley and Dick Pearce, both recognized specialists in machinery safety, guide the reader through the various standards, regulations and best pra...
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558,65 |
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Dust Explosion Prevention and Protection: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9780750675192 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in three volumes by the Institution of Chemical Engineers from 1985 to 1988, this guide formed the first authoritative and comprehensive guide for dust explosion prevention and protection for engineers, scientists, safety specialists, and managers. This guide is a compilation of current best practices for measures to prevent dust explosions from occurring, and, if they do occur, to protect the plant and personnel from their destructive effects by applying the techniques of explosion containment, explosion suppression, and explosion venting. Included is new... Originally published in three volumes by the Institution of Chemical Engineers from 1985 to 1988, this guide formed the first authoritative and com... |
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831,12 |
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OSHA 2002 Recordkeeping Simplified
ISBN: 9780750675598 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has updated their recordkeeping requirements for the first time since 1971. This results in a significant number of changes for every employer with ten or more employees, which can often cause confusion and failure to comply. OSHA 2002 Recordkeeping Simplified goes beyond the explanation that OSHA supplies to provide an easy understanding of these new requirements. OSHA 2002 Recordkeeping Simplified provides an easy to follow format that allows all those in charge of recordkeeping to comply with the updated standards. The...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has updated their recordkeeping requirements for the first time since 1971. This results in a...
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301,14 |
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Maximizing Profitability with Safety Culture Development
ISBN: 9780750676106 / Angielski / Miękka / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cliff Florczak has been an integral part of a number of highly successful zero incidents safety culture development programs. Here, he shares the details of these programs in order to provide others with the necessary information to assess their own safety culture. After a brief background on safety cultures themselves, the author utilizes some of the basic safety principles, combines them with some of the basic management theories and puts all of this to use in real life situations.
Cliff Florczak has been an integral part of a number of highly successful zero incidents safety culture development programs. Here, he shares the deta...
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310,85 |
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Security Education, Awareness and Training: Seat from Theory to Practice
ISBN: 9780750678032 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the only one available on security training for all level of personnel. Chief Security Officers (CSOs), security managers, and heads of security forces often have to design training programs themselves from scratch or rely on outside vendors and outside training companies to provide training which is often dry, stilted, and not always applicable to a specific corporate or government setting. This title addresses the theories of sound security training and awareness, then shows the reader how to put the theories into practice when developing or presenting any form of security...
This book is the only one available on security training for all level of personnel. Chief Security Officers (CSOs), security managers, and heads of s...
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237,98 |
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Tolley's Workplace Accident Handbook
ISBN: 9780750681513 / Angielski / Miękka / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Occupational safety and health management theory is now rightly focused on pro-activity, risk assessment and management. But it remains important that organizations know what they need to do when accidents happen, both to comply with legislation and to extract all the information from the incident to improve their health and safety management.Tolley's Workplace Accident Handbook presents in a single volume what needs to be done when an accident occurs - from emergency procedures and legal reporting requirements through to formal investigations and possible legal...
Occupational safety and health management theory is now rightly focused on pro-activity, risk assessment and management. But it remains important that...
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301,14 |
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Human Factors and Behavioural Safety
ISBN: 9780750681551 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accidents and cases of occupational ill-health are commonly associated with aspects of human behaviour and the potential for human error. Human Factors and Behavioural Safety is not written for psychologists, but instead gives health and safety professionals and students a broad overview of human factors and those aspects of human behaviour which have a direct effect on health and safety performance within organisations.Particular attention is paid to: * the role of the organisation in promoting safe behaviour* the sensory and perceptual processes of people*...
Accidents and cases of occupational ill-health are commonly associated with aspects of human behaviour and the potential for human error. ...
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286,57 |
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Job Hazard Analysis: A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond
ISBN: 9780750683463 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Job Hazard Analysis: A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond presents a new and improved concept for Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) that guides the reader through the whole process of developing tools for identifying workplace hazards, creating systems that support hazard recognition, designing an effective JHA, and integrating a JHA based program into occupational safety and health management systems. The book goes beyond the traditional approach of focusing just on the sequence of steps and demonstrates how to integrate a risk assessment and behavioral component into the process by... Job Hazard Analysis: A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond presents a new and improved concept for Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) that guid... |
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291,42 |
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Tolley's Managing Stress in the Workplace
ISBN: 9780754512691 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With one in five workers (approximately 5 million) reported as having felt under extreme pressure at work, stress is overtaking the common cold as the biggest cause of absence from work. The CBI has put the total cost of mental health and stress problems to employers at u5 billion. The Institute of Management has estimated that 270,000 people take time off very day due to work related stress. This is a cost to the UK economy of u7 billion p.a. in terms of sick pay, lost production, NHS costs, etc. The HSC is planning a programme of work to tackle occupational stress through a range of...
With one in five workers (approximately 5 million) reported as having felt under extreme pressure at work, stress is overtaking the common cold as the...
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364,29 |
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Social Networks and Health
ISBN: 9780762308811 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is directed toward researchers and health professionals with an interest in the interstices of social networks and health. It consists of original papers that address critical themes in health-related social network research and disease prevention. The sections discuss the dynamics of social networks and their role in providing social support under varying conditions and contexts; how social network theory and research contribute to disease prevention and control; methodological issues that affect recall and agreement when conducting social network studies; how social networks...
This volume is directed toward researchers and health professionals with an interest in the interstices of social networks and health. It consists of ...
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920,02 |
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Reorganizing Health Care Delivery Systems: Problems of Managed Care and Other Models of Health Care Delivery
ISBN: 9780762310692 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume deals with the reorganizing of health care delivery systems: problems of managed care and other models of health care delivery. Issues of how to best organize a health care delivery system are not new, but the amount of interest in this topic in the US (as well as in other countries) has grown in recent decades. Reorganizing health care delivery systems is a concern of many systems of the world, and this volume contains some papers from countries other than the US, although the majority of the papers do relate issues to the US health care delivery system. While most papers relate...
This volume deals with the reorganizing of health care delivery systems: problems of managed care and other models of health care delivery. Issues of ...
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884,64 |
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Bioterrorism Preparedness, Attack and Response
ISBN: 9780762311057 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A volume that provides a view into the world of Bioterrorism and how it could affect the healthcare system of the United States. It will lead the reader along a journey that shows ramifications to health, politics, and everyday common actions. The book starts out by informing the reader of biological agents and then leads into how organizations and the government should respond in the case that such agents are unleashed. A full understanding of bioterrorism preparedness and response cannot be achieved effectively by considering these phenomena in a vacuum nor informed only by the bioterrorism...
A volume that provides a view into the world of Bioterrorism and how it could affect the healthcare system of the United States. It will lead the read...
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930,13 |
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Risks, Dangers, and Rewards in the Nova Scotia Offshore Fishery
ISBN: 9780773513136 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Risks, Dangers, and Rewards in the Nova Scotia Offshore Fishery describes the hidden cost paid by workers in the Nova Scotia offshore fishery, a cost measured not in dollars and cents but in deaths and injuries.
Risks, Dangers, and Rewards in the Nova Scotia Offshore Fishery describes the hidden cost paid by workers in the Nova Scotia offshore fishery, a cost ...
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485,78 |
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Workplace Safety: Individual Differences in Behavior
ISBN: 9780789013552 / Angielski / Twarda / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do all you can to minimize dangerous behaviors to benefit communities, employees, and organizations Safety is a "real world" problem that community psychologists, industrial/organizational psychologists, industrial hygenists, human resources professionals, and corporate insurance groups must deal with on a day-to-day basis. In Workplace Safety: Individual Differences in Behavior you will examine safety behavior and discover practical interventions to help increase the safety awareness of the people in your life. This book takes a look at ways of defining and measuring safety as well...
Do all you can to minimize dangerous behaviors to benefit communities, employees, and organizations Safety is a "real world" problem that co...
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728,68 |
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Quantified Societal Risk and Policy Making
ISBN: 9780792349556 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quantified Societal Risk and Policy Making is the result of an international workshop on societal risk organized by the Dutch Ministry for Transport, Public Works and Water Management with additional financial support from the Directorate for Transportation (DG VII) of the European Union.
Managing risks, whether there is a strong man-made or natural component, basically means assessing alternative options under uncertainty. The possibility of multiple fatalities is one of the factors that can vary between options. This volume is concerned with one particular type of risk... Quantified Societal Risk and Policy Making is the result of an international workshop on societal risk organized by the Dutch Ministry for Tr...
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402,53 |
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Safety Issues Associated with Plutonium Involvement in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
ISBN: 9780792355922 / Angielski / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "VOLGA" conferences, hosted in odd-numbered years by the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Reactor Physics of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), are some of the most prestigious technical meetings held in Russia. Traditionally, these conferences present the opportunity for reactor physicists from around the world to gather at MEPhI's holiday camp on the banks of the Volga river (near Tver) to exchange ideas and explore innovative concepts related to nuclear power development. In 1997, NATO became involved in the "VOLGA" meetings for the first time by co-sponsoring...
The "VOLGA" conferences, hosted in odd-numbered years by the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Reactor Physics of the Moscow Engineering Phys...
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724,58 |
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Error Prevention and Well-Being at Work in Western Europe and Russia: Psychological Traditions and New Trends
ISBN: 9780792371007 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A variety of psychological traditions and methodological approaches formed a body of human error research in different parts of Europe. This book overviews some of the traditions that have grown in West European countries and Russia, with a strong emphasis on contextual approaches. For the very first time, West European readers will have access to a Russian literature in this area. Western and Eastern psychologists are linked by common psychological roots but disciplines evolved in completely different conditions regarding the material possibilities to collect data, diffuse ideas, and finance...
A variety of psychological traditions and methodological approaches formed a body of human error research in different parts of Europe. This book over...
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402,53 |
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Monitoring the Worker for Exposure and Disease: Scientific, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in the Use of Biomarkers
ISBN: 9780801839894 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human monitoring as a supplement to or replacement for environmental monitoring of toxic substances in the workplace has become an increasingly important issue within the last decade, leading to Congressional hearings, governmental studies, and scientific conferences around the world. Just as the purposes for undertaking human monitoring are diverse and sometimes conflicting, so too are the concerns-- medical, legal, and ethical-- such testing has generated.
The authors begin by providing precise characterizations of the types of monitoring now in use and a clear account of the legal basis... Human monitoring as a supplement to or replacement for environmental monitoring of toxic substances in the workplace has become an increasingly import...
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171,63 |