Workplace Hazard Prevention Management - Softcover

Joel M. Haight

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885581726 ISBN 13: 9781885581723

Publisher: American Society of Safety Engineers, 2013

Synopsis

Based onThe Safety Professionals Handbook, 2nd edition, Workplace Hazard Prevention Management, focuses is on what causes workplace hazards and what can be done to prevent them through design, engineering controls and work methods.. Besides the physical control of various materials, processes, and activities that produce a hazard, the text also focuses on human behavior as a factor. One control discussed is a permit-to-work system. Using a permit-to work system gives workers a step-by-step plan to follow while preforming unfamiliar and possible hazardous tasks.

Other topics covered in the book include: Electrical safety Pressure vessel safety Performance measurement Benchmarking Employee safety surveys Best practices Written by experts in their fields students will also learn about risk, how it is measured, the financial consequences of ignoring it and the cost benefits of managing it. Workplace Hazard Prevention Management provides the basic tools of hazard prevention in the workplace, explains the financial consequences of ignoring risks, and the cost/benefits of effective risk management.

Attention Instructors: Desk copies of this textbook are available to instructors upon request who are considering the book for course adoption. Download the Desk Copy Request form.

An Instructor's Guide containing questions and answers for each of the chapters in Hazard Materials Management and Hazard Communication is available upon request at no cost to instructors who have adopted the handbook for a course. There is also a graphics package available for download with all of the graphics in jpeg format for use in the classroom.

About this title

About the Author:

Joel M. Haight, Ph.D, P.E., is the Branch Chief of the Human Factors Branch at the Centersfor Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-Na­tional Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) at their Pittsburgh Office of Mine Safety and Health Research. For the nearly 10 years prior to this appointment, Dr. Haight served as an Associate Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He has a Ph.D and Master's degree in Industrial and Sys­tems Engineering bothfrom Auburn University.

Dr. Haight worked as a manager and an environmental and safety engineerfor the: Chevron Corporation for 18 years, prior to joining the faculty at Penn State. He has nearly 40 peer-reviewed publications and is the editor-in-chief of the American Society of Safety Engineer's The Safety Professionals Handbook. He is a professional member of Ameri­can Society of Safety Engineers, American Industrial Hygiene Associa­tion and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: American Society of Safety Engineers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1885581726
• ISBN 13: 9781885581723
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298
• Editor: Joel M. Haight