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Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety
Wiley 2010; US$ 186.00Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety provides guidelines for industries that manufacture, consume, or handle chemicals, by focusing on new ways to design, correct, or improve process safety management practices. This new framework for thinking about process safety builds upon the original process safety management ideas published in the early... more...
Update on Health and Safety in the Rubber Industries
iSmithers Rapra Publishing 2010; US$ 125.00The rubber industry uses both natural and synthetic rubber. Tyres and tyre products account for approximately 60% of the synthetic rubber and 75% of the natural rubber used, and this industry employs about half a million workers worldwide. Important non-tyre uses of rubber include automotive belts and hoses, gloves, condoms and rubber footwear. Occupational... more...
Guidelines for Improving Plant Reliability Through Data Collection and Analysis
Wiley 2010; US$ 192.00Written by reliability data experts, the book gives plant managers and supervisors the guidance they need to collect, and use with confidence, process equipment reliability data for risk-based decisions. Focusing on the process industries, it provides the protocol and techniques to collect and organize high quality plant performance, maintenance, and... more...
Guidelines for Vapor Cloud Explosion, Pressure Vessel Burst, BLEVE and Flash Fire Hazards
Wiley 2010; US$ 138.00This guide provides an overview of methods for estimating the characteristics of vapor cloud explosions, flash fires, and boiling-liquid-expanding-vapor explosions (BLEVEs) for practicing engineers. It has been updated to include advanced modeling technology, especially with respect to vapor cloud modeling and the use of computational fluid dynamics.... more...
Introduction to International Health and Safety at Work
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 74.95This NEBOSH-endorsed textbook will introduce you to the fundamentals of health and safety in the workplace, whether studying for a course or in need of more information on the subject as part of your job . Introduction to Health and Safety at Work is the definitive handbook to the National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety... more...
Handbook of Human Factors in Medical Device Design
CRC Press 2010; US$ 135.95Developed to promote the design of safe, effective, and usable medical devices, "Handbook of Human Factors in Medical Device Design" provides a single convenient source of authoritative information to support evidence-based design and evaluation of medical device user interfaces using rigorous human factors engineering principles. It offers... more...
Air Monitoring in the Rubber and Plastics Industries
iSmithers Rapra Publishing 2003; US$ 126.00Health, safety and the environment are key driving factors in industry in the 21st Century. Monitoring of exposure to chemicals in the workplace and in emissions from factories is used to calculate exposure to possible chemical toxins including carcinogens. Other factors must also be considered in chemical monitoring, such as the actual risk of harm... more...
Guidelines for Process Safety in Bioprocess Manufacturing Facilities
Wiley 2010; US$ 110.00This book helps advance process safety in a key area of interest. Currently, no literature exists which is solely dedicated to process safety for the bioprocessing industry. There are texts, guidelines, and standards on biosafety at the laboratory level and for industrial hygiene, but no guidelines for large-scale production facilities. In fact, biosafety... more...
Risk and Crisis Communications
Wiley 2011; US$ 69.95The go-to guide for learning what to say and how to say it In this climate of near constant streams of media messages, organizations need to know how to effectively communicate risks to their audiences and what to say when a crisis strikes. Risk and Crisis Communications: Methods and Messages is designed to help organizations understand the essential... more...
Patient Safety
CRC Press 2011; US$ 34.95Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments. The risks to patients are many and diverse, and the complexity of the healthcare system that delivers them is huge. Yet the discourse is often oversimplified and underdeveloped. Written from a scientific, human factors... more...









