Industrial Safety and Health Management (4th Edition)

Couples the traditional examination of concepts & techniques in safety & health management with a modern perspective on compliance with mandatory standards for workplace safety & health. DLC: Industrial safety.

Unique in approach, this piece combines — in one volume — an exploration of the time-tested concepts and techniques of safety and health management, a modern perspective on compliance with mandatory standards for workplace safety and health, and a variety of solved problems, case studies, and exercises. It provides reasons, explanations, and illustrations of the hazard mechanisms that form the underlying basis for the volumes of detailed standards for workplace safety and health.

FEATURES

• NEW—Splits coverage of Health and Environmental Control into two chapters:
• Health and Toxic Substances.
• Environmental Control and (industrial) Noise.
• NEW—Adds new exercises (for a total of approx. 640 total) and case studies.
• NEW—Discusses and draws from the new and readily available sources of information now accessible to the Safety and Health Manager — e.g., the OSHA CD-ROM computer database, the Internet, in addition to conventional library resources.
• Empowering the reader to readily find their own answers to questions on safety and health management.
• Provides "Research Exercises" which requires the reader to go beyond the book for answers - to the Internet or to the OSHA CD-ROM or comprehensive conventional libraries.
• NEW—Revises and updates tables.
• Easy-to-read, informal writing style that brings the technical subject matter to life.
• Makes extensive use of diagrams and figures to clearly illustrate concepts that are confusing in government standards — e.g., alternative guarding methods for punch presses.
• Features case studies — e.g., recordkeeping, electrical shock hazards.
• Provides complete and accurate technical data from government standards — e.g., on welding fumes and gases, on press safeguarding, etc.
• Contains several appendices with tables of information commonly used in professional practice.