Industrial Fire Safety Guidebook

Industrial Fire Safety Guidebook Review

This reference has been written for emergency response personnel, plant safety specialists, and emergency response coordinators. It has been prepared at a practical level to assist both in training safety personnel and to provide technical information that can assist in responding to a hazard material incident that could lead to a fire hazard situation. Considerable information and technical data are given on petroleum based products since these are among the most widely consumed products, however, the reader will find ample information on other chemicals. Fire situations pose one of the most serious problems in an industrial setting, with the potential loss of lives and property, as well as damage to the environment. Proper response by trained personnel, as well as careful preplanning can minimize the risk and damage caused by fire.

Aging: Culture, Health, and Social Change (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)

Aging: Culture, Health, and Social Change (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine) Review

This is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines contest some of the predominant paradigms on aging, and critically assess modern trends in social health policy.

Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster

Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster Review

In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades after methods of prevention were known, hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust. The combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of this disease--and even to acknowledge its existence--resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt.

The book begins in the late nineteenth century, when the disorders brought on by exposure to coal mine dust were first identified as components of a debilitating and distinctive illness. For several decades thereafter, coal miners' dust disease was accepted, in both lay and professional circles, as a major industrial disease. Derickson describes how after the turn of the century medical professionals and industry representatives worked to discredit and supplant knowledge about black lung, with such success that this disease ceased to be recognized. Many authorities maintained that breathing coal mine dust was actually beneficial to health.

Derickson shows that activists ultimately forced society to overcome its complacency about this deadly and preventable disease. He chronicles the growth of an unprecedented movement--from the turn-of-the-century miners' union, to the social medicine activists in the mid-twentieth century, and the black lung insurgents of the late sixties--which eventually won landmark protections and compensation with the enactment of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act in 1969.

An extraordinary work of scholarship, Black Lung exposes the enormous human cost of producing the energy source responsible for making the United States the world's preeminent industrial nation.

Schools and the Health of Children: Protecting Our Future

Schools and the Health of Children: Protecting Our Future Review

Schools and the Health of Children examines the debate over the provision of school health programmes in USA.

In this timely contribution to an important topic Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld: defines the key issues in the debate; outlines the history of school health programmes; examines contemporary examples of school health care delivery; theorizes on the likely future of school health care.

Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy

Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy Review

Governing Health examines health care policy making from a long-term, political perspective, describing how Congress, the president, special interest groups, bureaucracy, and state governments help define health policy problems and find politically feasible solutions. The third edition of this pathbreaking book is updated to cover recent legislative efforts, including the Medicare prescription drug benefit.

Praise for previous editions of Governing Health

Consumer Product Safety (European Business Law Library)

Consumer Product Safety (European Business Law Library) Review

The aim of this book is to analyze in a comparative framework, laws relating to product safety. These include standard setting, general safety obligations, export control and information exchange systems. The countries studied include the UK, USA, Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, as well as EC law in the light of EC product safety directives.

Understanding Health Care Facility Safety

Understanding Health Care Facility Safety Review

Health care organizations are diverse, depending on their country or region, but there are common safety threads everyone can follow. This book provides real-life case studies showing how organizations from different countries make their facilities safe for patients and the staff who provide care. In addition, you'll learn: how to meet the Facility Management and Safety (FMS) standards in the Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospitals; how to create an organizational plan to address the seven areas of FMS - safety, security, hazardous materials, emergencies, fire safety, medical equipment, and utility systems; and, tips and strategies for organizational risk assessment, information collection and evaluation, performance monitoring and improvement, orientation and education, and annual evaluation.

Handbook of Occupational Safety and Health

Handbook of Occupational Safety and Health Review

This volume constitutes a comprehensive reference source, using techniques and methods from various disciplines applicable to occupational safety and health. It satisfies the need for a standard reference work in this rapidly growing field. The book is divided into nine parts related to all aspects of the field: ergonomics, insurance, occupational safety and health management and information, occupational safety and health training programs, analytical tools, economic factors, and safety and the law. Individual chapters discuss how to deal with the troubled employee, how to conduct an accident investigation, how to ensure and maintain quality in a medical surveillance program, how to use workers compensation data to identify high-risk groups, how to apply simulation modelling and analysis to occupational safety and health, how to survive workplace litigation, and much more.

Well Women: The Gendered Nature of Health Care Provision

Well Women: The Gendered Nature of Health Care Provision Review

All in the mind - feminism and health care, Sue Nott and Anne Morris; Disabling sex - some legal thinking about sterilization, learning disability and embodiment, Kirsty Keywood; Infertility treatment and the HIV positive woman - old moral prejudices disguised as new ethical dilemmas, Kylie Stephen; Psychologizing abortion - women's "mental health" and the regulation of abortion in Britain, Ellie Lee; European assisted conception regulation, the centrality of the embryo, Melanie Latham; The angel in the house - altruism, competence and the pregnant woman, Anne Morris; Care, control or coercion? - women in the mental health system in Ireland, England and Wales, F. Boland and J.M. Laing; Body beautiful? - feminist perspectives on the World Health Organization, Susan M. Nott.

Pesticides: Health, Safety and the Environment

Pesticides: Health, Safety and the Environment Review

Over the last five decades pesticides have undoubtedly helped to increase agricultural production and control vectors of disease, however the environmental impact of long term agro-chemical use has been cause for concern along with the effects on human health.

In Pesticides, Graham Matthews begins by looking at the developmental history of pesticides, and how crop protection was achieved before they were in use, how pesticides are registered for use and what happens to pesticides in food and the environment. Pesticide application and operator safety is investigated and the future of pesticides in light of the development of genetically modified crops is explored.

• Provides commercially important information for the agro-chemical industry
  
• Addresses all aspects of public concern relating to human health and the environment, including spray drift, bystander, resident and worker exposure
  
• Looks at the future of pesticides in light of the increasing prevalence of genetically modified crops

Collecting together the most recent research in the area in a single volume, this book is a vital resource for agricultural scientists, agronomists, plant scientists, plant pathologists, entomologists, environmental scientists, public health personnel, toxicologists, crop protection personnel and all those involved in the agrochemical industry and government pesticide registration and legislation.

Know the Risk: Learning from errors and accidents: safety and risk in today's technology

Know the Risk: Learning from errors and accidents: safety and risk in today's technology Review

We live in a technological world, exposed to many risks and errors and the fear of death. Know the Risk shows us how we can learn from the many errors and tragic accidents which have plagued our developing technological world.

This breakthrough volume presents a new concept and theory that shows how errors can and should be analyzed so that learning and experience are accounted for. The authors show that, by using a universal learning curve, errors can be tracked and managed so that they are reduced to the smallest number possible.

The authors have devoted a number of years to gathering data, analyzing theories relating to error reduction, design improvement, management of errors and assignment of cause. The analyzed data relates to millions of errors. They find a common thread between all technology-related accidents and link all of these errors (from the headline stories to the everyday accidents). They challenge the reader to take a different look at the stream of threats, risks, dangers, statistics and errors by presenting a new perspective.

The book makes use of detailed illustrations and explores many headline accidents which highlight human weaknesses in harnessing and exploiting the technology we have developed; from the Titanic to Chernobyl, Bhopal to Concorde, the Mary Rose to the Paddington rail crash and examine errors over which we have little or no control. By analyzing the vast data society has collected, the authors show how the famous accidents and our everyday risks are related.

The authors prove the strength of their observations by comparing their findings to the recorded history of tragedies, disasters, accidents and incidents in chemical, airline, shipping, rail, automobile, nuclear, medical, industrial and manufacturing technologies. They also address the management of Quality and losses in production, the search for zero defects and the avoidance of personal risk and danger.

Stresses the importance of a learning environment for safety improvement

Places both quality and safety management in the same learning context

Learn how to track and manage errors to reduce as quickly as possible

Violence and Health Care Professionals

Violence and Health Care Professionals Review

In recent years, violence to staff has been highlighted by the media, professional bodies, trade unions and government departments. One group of workers, those in health care, have a unique problem: their professional commitment to continue to care for assailants following personal assault. Health professionals are becoming less tolerant of attack and are seeking strategies to avoid injury and to manage the problem proactively. This research-based book identifies and addresses the facts of the risks to different groups of workers. It surveys the responses both of the victims of attack and of the organisations they represent and work in. This not only reassures victims that certain responses are normal, but also suggests detailed, evaluated therapeutic interventions that enable recovery. The information provided is for people working directly with patients, but it should also be of use to employers setting up policies and procedures. The authors' findings should enable the prevention of violence and provide a guide to the support of victims who may suffer long-term psychological trauma following assault. This book should be of interest to health professionals including psychiatrists, social workers, community health teams, psychologists, nurses and GPs.

Health Hazards Of Electromagnetic Radiation, 2Nd Edition: A Startling Look At The Effects Of Electropollution On Your Health

Health Hazards Of Electromagnetic Radiation, 2Nd Edition: A Startling Look At The Effects Of Electropollution On Your Health Review

We are exposed to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from power lines, houshold wiring, microwave ovens, computers, televisions, cellular phones, and other appliances. Researchers have correlated electropollution with increases in cancer, birth defects, depression, learning disabilities, chronic fatigue syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, and sudden infant death syndrome. The danger is real and with increasing use of electricity in our environment it is one of the reasons why many scientists believe some disease rates are on the rise. This book offers practical ways to protect yourself from the effects of electromagnetic radiation. You will learn how to take simple precautionary steps to reduce EMF exposure by as much as 90 percent and virtually eliminate the threat of electropollution on your health. If you use electricity, you need this book.

When I Were a Lad . . .: Snapshots from a Time that Health and Safety Forgot

When I Were a Lad . . .: Snapshots from a Time that Health and Safety Forgot Review

The good old pre-safety days—a time before seatbelts, when you could throw snowballs without filling out a risk assessment report, and children were allowed in with the animals at the zoo

 

Protective goggles, protective gloves, safety helmets—all overrated. This hilarious photo collection looks at the glorious-yet-risky childhoods of yesteryear before the authorities said that kids couldn't do anything because it was all too dangerous. The authors have trawled through the major historic archives to find some glorious photo opportunities where the safety angle of the participants was the last thing anyone thought of. Children perch happily on lethal, limb-mangling machinery; stand all-smiles on live crocodiles; pose on unexploded munitions; cuddle vermin; and get scooped from the street by passing tram conductors! Take a nostalgic trip back to a time when children got dirty, wandered the streets on their own, and had strange pets.

Disasters and Public Health: Planning and Response

Disasters and Public Health: Planning and Response Review

From the San Diego wildfires to multi-drug-resistant strains of bacteria, communities are facing an ever-growing list of potential disasters. Some events, like pandemic flu or anthrax attacks, are public health emergencies first and foremost. Hurricane Katrina taught us, however, that lack of planning for the frail, elderly, and impoverished population can turn a natural disaster into a healthcare nightmare and lead to needless death and suffering. Emergency managers and public health professionals must integrate their prevention and response efforts to serve their communities most effectively. The structure of each chapter offers an innovative approach to organizing key information: 1. Case Study or Historical Example 2. Disaster-specific Terms Defined 3. Disaster Description 4. Health Threat (Morbidity and Mortality) 5. Prevention 6. Immediate Actions 7. Recovery or Managing the Aftermath 8. Summary Disasters and Public Health is a crucial tool in planning for and responding to the health impact of any crisis situation. Bruce Clements served over 20 years in the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard as a Public Health Officer and a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare Defense Instructor, a Hazardous Materials Specialist with an Urban Search and Rescue Team, and as a Safety Officer with a Disaster Medical Assistance Team. He also served as the Public Health Preparedness Director of Missouri in 2006, when the state experienced a record number of disaster declarations. Throughout his years of experience, he frequently needed to track down a variety of references to quickly understand what was needed for an effective public health response in various situations. He has researched and compiled this information on the health impact of a wide range of disasters into one quick reference. Emergency managers can also no longer afford to be surprised by the next crisis that erupts. This book guides planners in both disciplines in preventing tragedies by most effectively preparing and responding when disaster strikes.

* Prevent or respond to disasters from terrorism to pandemic flu
* Examine the critical intersection of emergency management and public health
* Benefit from the author's years of experience in emergency response

Toxic Free: How to Protect Your Health and Home from the Chemicals That Are Making You Sick

Toxic Free: How to Protect Your Health and Home from the Chemicals That Are Making You Sick Review

From the The New York Times'"Queen of Green" comes the ultimate guide for finding and eliminating the toxic chemicals in your home today.

There is no longer any question that consumer products contain toxic chemicals harmful to our families. But how do we protect ourselves, and where do we start?

In Toxic Free, Debra Lynn Dadd, hailed by The New York Times as the "Queen of Green," discusses the hidden toxic chemicals already present in our homes, their varying degrees of danger, and precise, proven methods for eliminating them from our lives in a cost- effective, environmentally friendly way.

Are you suffering from unexplained headaches, fatigue, or depression? Are you worried about the link between chemicals in the home and the rising rate of cancer? Or are you just looking to save money (and the planet in the process)?

From tips and do-it-yourself formulas to world-class research and in-depth exploration and explanation, this book provides:
-a basic understanding of how toxic chemicals in consumer products affect your health;
-all the tools you need to remove these toxins from your home and body- starting today;
-and helpful guides on how to immediately save money on home-care products, as well as on the rapidly rising cost of your health care.

Health Is Academic: A Guide to Coordinated School Health Programs

Health Is Academic: A Guide to Coordinated School Health Programs Review

With contributions from over 70 professional associations, this text covers the "eight components" designed to give students the knowledge and skills they need to deal with the problems they face in and out of school. The text discusses topics from health education to nutrition services.