Fire and Blast Engineering, Offshore Installations
The Brightside Lane Warehouse Fire
The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue (Human Factors in Information Technology)
Contributions from psychology, linguistics, logic, computer science, speech technology, neural networks and human factors are brought together in this volume to provide a comprehensive account of the scientific disciplines and research approaches that are directed at the study of human dialogue. It is not only a multidisciplinary account, it has also achieved a high level of integration which brings out a multifaceted approach to dialogues between people and between the human user and an informa...
The Audit 123 audit system checklists have been designed to suit all levels and sizes of an organisation, from small single units to large global organisations, and to act as a guide assisting organisations in achieving and confirming conformity with the ISO 14001:2015 standard and the successful management of environmental issues. Audit 123 - ISO 14001:2015 - Level 1 comprises a single audit workbook with separate auditor's guidance and may be used to audit an organisation's conformity as a who...
Emerging Chemical Risks in the Work Environment (Occupational Safety, Health, and Ergonomics)
Around the world, the production and use of nanomaterials, as well as carcinogenic, mutagenic, reprotoxic substances (CMR) and endocrine disruptors has systematically increased. The increase in production has exposed workers to hazardous substances in practically all branches of the world economy. Readers will have access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge on emerging risks related to nanomaterials, endocrine disruptors, reprotoxic, carcinogenic and mutagenic substances, which are related...
An International Approach to Biotechnology Safety
Dam Sector Protection and Homeland Security (Homeland Security)
by Frank R. Spellman
The sixth of a new, well-received and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Dam Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise U.S. project designers, engineers, managers, superintendents and supervisors of dams, navigation locks, levees, dikes, hurricane barriers, mine tailings and other industrial waste impoundments, and other similar water retention and water control facilities who want quick answers to complicat...
Successful Management for Safety
Based on papers presented at a meeting organized by the Engineering Manufacturing Industries Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in association with the Hazards Forum, this book looks at various strategies for the management of safety. Some of the topics looked at include the impetus from legislation, the community's contribution as regards safety and health in the context of completion of the internal market - the social point of view, assessment of a company for safety and mini...
The AASK Database V3.0 (CMS Press Paper S., No. 01/IM/79)
by Edwin R. Galea and etc.
Seguridad con las pistolas de clavos
by Centers for Disease Cont And Prevention, National Institute Fo Safety and Health, and D Human Services
Disaster Management and Preparedness
by Thomas D. Schneid and Larry Collins
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 194 (Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, #194)
by David M Whitacre
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications. It covers all aspects of environmental contamination and associated toxicological consequences as well as facilitates the task of accessing and interpreting cogent scientific data.
Electricity at Work (HS(G), #85)
Guide to EU Legislation and Environmental Health and Safety in the European PM Industry
Tanker Safety Training (Liquefied Gas)
Overpressure (Major hazards monograph)
Engineering for Safe Operations
High Entropy Alloys
This book provides a cohesive overview of innovations, advances in processing and characterization, and applications for high entropy alloys (HEAs) in performance-critical and non-performance-critical sectors. It covers manufacturing and processing, advanced characterization and analysis techniques, and evaluation of mechanical and physical properties. With chapters authored by a team of internationally renowned experts, the volume includes discussions on high entropy thermoelectric materials, c...
Trends in Fatal Car-occupant Accidents (Road Safety Research Report S., #76)
by Heather Ward, Nicola Christie, Ronan Lyons, Jeremy Broughton, David Clarke, and Patrick Ward
Power and Transnational Activism (Rethinking Globalizations)
This book focuses on global activism and uses a power perspective to provide an in-depth and coherent analysis of both the possibilities and limitations of global activism. Bringing together scholars from IR, sociology, and political science, this book offers new and critical insights on global activism and power. It features case studies on the following social and political issues: China and Tibet, HIV/AIDS, climate change, child labour, the WTO, women and the UN, the global public sphere, r...
Methods for the Detection of Toxic Substances in the Air