Technology : Industrial Health & Safety

The value of ergonomics is increasingly recognized amongst those involved with the creation and distribution of nuclear power. This work provides insights into plant design, performance shaping factors, the fostering of a safety culture, training, more...

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This book unravels the complex range of factors affecting OHS policy, practice and outcomes. Through a wide range of primary and secondary research, it offers an accessible framework for OHS in contemporary occupational settings. more...

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Focusing on 13 developing countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, this book explores the contextual functions of HR in these countries. In addition it analyses the more general issues of HRM in cross-national settings. more...

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The Illustrated Dictionary of Environmental Health and Occupational Safety is a unique and comprehensive reference source for the vast and diverse collection of interrelated terms and topics that encompass the field of environmental science more...

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Improvements in System Safety contains the full complement of papers presented at the sixteenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Bristol, UK, in February 2008. The Symposium is for engineers, managers and academics in the field of safety, across all industry sectors, and so the papers included in this volume offer a wide-ranging coverage of major safety issues as well as a good blend of academic research and industrial experience. They include discussions of some of the most recent developments in the field. The book begins with a tutorial examining the recent marked shift in the regulatory approach to ensuring software safety. Whereas compliance with development standards used to be norm, the responsibility has now shifted on to the developers and operators to construct and present well reasoned arguments that their software is acceptably safe (in a system context). These arguments, together with supporting evidence, are typically assembled, structured and presented in a software ???safety case???. This tutorial is crucial to all involved in the discipline and an excellent introduction to the topics subsequently discussed. The first paper reflects a tutorial ??? on The Safety Case ??? held on the first day of the Symposium. The subsequent 14 papers are presented under the headings of the Symposium??'s sessions: Themes Reprised from SSS ???07; The Safety Case; Safety Culture; Human Factors; Achieving and Improving System Safety; Safety and Risk Analysis. This book will be of interest to both academics and practitioners working in the safety-critical systems arena. more...

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