Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries

Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries Review

Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA) determines the probability and consequences of accidents, hence, the risk. This subject concerns policy makers, regulators, designers, educators and engineers working to achieve maximum safety with operational efficiency. Risk is analyzed using methods for achieving reliability in the space program. The first major application was to the nuclear power industry, followed by applications to the chemical industry. It has also been applied to space, aviation, defense, ground, and water transportation. This book is unique in its treatment of chemical and nuclear risk. Problems are included at the end of many chapters, and answers are in the back of the book. Computer files are provided (via the internet), containing reliability data, a calculator that determines failure rate and uncertainty based on field experience, pipe break calculator, event tree calculator, FTAP and associated programs for fault tree analysis, and a units conversion code. It contains 540 references and many referrals to internet locations for information.

CHST Exam Secrets Study Guide: CHST Test Review for the Construction Health and Safety Technician Exam

CHST Exam Secrets Study Guide: CHST Test Review for the Construction Health and Safety Technician Exam Review

***Includes Practice Test Questions***

CHST Exam Secrets helps you ace the Construction Health and Safety Technician Exam, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive CHST Exam Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ever imagined. CHST Exam Secrets includes: The 5 Secret Keys to CCHEST Exam Success: Time is Your Greatest Enemy, Guessing is Not Guesswork, Practice Smarter, Not Harder, Prepare, Don't Procrastinate, Test Yourself; A comprehensive General Strategy review with: Make Predictions, Answer the Question, Benchmark, Valid Information, Avoid Fact Traps, Milk the Question, The Trap of Familiarity, Eliminate Answers, Tough Questions, Brainstorm, Read Carefully, Face Value, Prefixes, Hedge Phrases, Switchback Words, New Information, Time Management, Contextual Clues, Don't Panic, Pace Yourself, Answer Selection, Check Your Work, Beware of Directly Quoted Answers, Slang, Extreme Statements, Answer Choice Families; Comprehensive sections covering: Injury Types, Types of Construction Accident, Safety of Ladders and Stairwells, MSDS, Construction Cranes, Operation of Forklifts, Hazardous Chemicals, Personal Protective Equipment, Work-related Injury, OSHA Form 300, 300A, and Form 301, Workplace Illnesses, Code of Federal Regulations, Chemical Transportation Emergency Center, Job Safety Analysis, Impact of Brain and Blood Toxins, OSHA Regulations 1910.20, Personal Protection Equipment, Hearing Protective Devices, Underground Workers, Potential Hazards, Respiratory Protection Programs, HEPA Highly Efficient Particulate Air, Personal Fall Arrest Systems, Scaffolding, OSHA standards, Types of Scaffolding, Accidents and Incidents, Chemical Accidents or Releases, EPA Environmental Protection Agency, and much more...

Guidelines for Writing Effective Operating and Maintenance Procedures (Center for Chemical Process Safety)

Guidelines for Writing Effective Operating and Maintenance Procedures (Center for Chemical Process Safety) Review

The EPA investigation of a 1994 chemical plant tragedy concluded that "the explosion resulted from a lack of written safe operating procedures…" While good written procedures can't guarantee zero accidents, they can reduce the number of accidents caused by human error. This new book shows how to remedy this problem through selecting and implementing actions that promote safe, efficient operations and maintenance, improve quality, continuity, profitability and cost control, build upon and record process experience, and promote the concept that operating and maintenance procedures are vital plant components. It includes practical samples of procedure formats, checklists and many references.

An Alternative Way of Managing Health & Safety (Knowledge Management Edition)

An Alternative Way of Managing Health & Safety (Knowledge Management Edition) Review

"An Alternative Way of Managing Health & Safety" offers the theoretical frame of a generic H&S-MS. It represents a step forward from previous theoretical and empirical work (e.g. Pérezgonzález, 2005a,b): it proposes a theoretical formulation of a generic H&S-MS, it offers clear graphic lines of influence of the different components in the H&S-MS on organisational health and safety, and it reviews and updates Pérezgonzález's theoretical and graphical model. This book is a "Knowledge Management" edition. The reader purchases the original contents with the main ideas underscored/underlined, and the essential ideas highlighted. The downloadable version is color-coded, as are the most relevant illustrations. A normal edition can be found as Pérezgonzález, JD (2005). An Alternative Way of Managing Health & Safety. USA: Pergonomas/Lulu, Inc.

Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy

Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy Review

This anthology brings together the personal stories of patients, physicians, policy makers, and others whose writings humanize discussions and deliberations about health policy.

Drawn from the popular "Narrative Matters" column in the journal Health Affairs, the essays epitomize the policy narrative, a new genre of writing that explores health policy through the expression of personal experiences. Forty-six articles focus on such topics as the hard financial realities of medical insurance, AIDS, assisted suicide, marketing drugs, genetic engineering, organ transplants, and ethnic and racial disparities in the health care system. The narratives raise ethical and moral issues that are being studied in many of our nation's medical schools.

This compelling collection provides important insight into the human dimensions of health care and health policy.

Quality and Safety in Pharmacy Practice

Quality and Safety in Pharmacy Practice Review

Gain a complete understanding of the principles of quality improvement and their application to present and future pharmacy practice

"This is a nice introduction to the concepts of continuous quality improvement. It is a comfortable read and is written at an elementary level in comparison to other textbooks in the pharmacy curriculum. This may be necessary, since the authors rightly conclude there is a lack of discussion of quality improvement in the pharmacy curriculum. 3 Stars."--Doody's Review Service

"This book is a great resource for pharmacists and pharmacy students who want to learn about safety and quality in pharmacy practice."--Laura Cranston, RPh, Executive Director, The Pharmacy Quality Alliance

Quality and Safety in Pharmacy Practice details the principles, approaches, strategies, and actions necessary to improve the overall safety and effectiveness of pharmacy services. Although one of the book’s primary goals is to enhance the quality of future health care, you will find guidelines that can be implemented immediately to improve today’s pharmacy practice. This comprehensive text offers a complete overview of quality in general, the reasons for improving practice, and actual day-to-day changes and approaches that will positively impact the patient.

Quality and Safety in Pharmacy Practice is divided into five parts, covering:

• The current and future landscape of health care quality and the business case for quality improvement and value-driven health care
• Quality improvement concepts and tools, including statistical process control
• Quality and safety measurement, including mechanisms for gathering consumer feedback
• Incentives and other drivers of quality improvement
• Application of the principles of quality improvement to pharmacy practice -- complete with case examples

Legal Essentials Of Health Care Administration

Legal Essentials Of Health Care Administration Review

Using The Same Approach, This Text Provides A Distillation Of The Widely Popular Legal Aspects Of Health Care Administration. It Presents An Overview Of Health Law Topics In An Interesting And Understandable Format, Leading The Reader Through The Complicated Maze Of The Legal System. The Topics Presented In This Book Create A Strong Foundation In Health Law. This Book Is A Sound Reference For Those Who Wish To Become More Informed About How The Law, Ethics, And Health Care Intersect. Features: A Historical Perspective On The Development Of Hospitals, Illustrating Both Their Progress And Failures Through The Centuries. Actual Court Cases, State And Federal Statutes, And Common-Law Principles Are Examined. A Broad Discussion Of The Legal System, Including The Sources Of Law And Government Organization. A Basic Review Of Tort Law, Criminal Issues, Contracts, Civil Procedure And Trial Practice, And A Wide Range Of Real Life Legal And Ethical Dilemmas That Caregivers Have Faced As They Wound Their Way Through The Courts. An Overview Of Various Ways To Improve The Quality And Delivery Of Health Care.

Safety Culture: Theory, Method and Improvement

Safety Culture: Theory, Method and Improvement Review

The aim of this book is to show how a cultural approach can contribute to the assessment, description and improvement of safety conditions in organizations. The relationship between organizational culture and safety, epitomized through the concept of 'safety culture', has undoubtedly become one of the hottest topics of both safety research and practical efforts to improve safety. By combining a general framework and five research projects, the author explores and further develops the theoretical, methodological and practical basis of the study of safety culture. What are the theoretical foundations of a cultural approach to safety? How can the relationship between organizational culture and safety be empirically investigated? What are the links between organizational culture and safety in actual organizations? How can a cultural approach contribute to the improvement of safety? These are the key questions the book seeks to answer with a unified and in-depth account of the concept of safety culture.

Practical Guide to Occupational Health and Safety

Practical Guide to Occupational Health and Safety Review

Written with corporate regulatory compliance officers, health and safety managers, loss control managers, and human resource specialists in mind, this book offers workplace-tested strategies for meeting the health and safety needs of a modern corporation. Emphasizing the practical means of achieving compliance with OSHA regulations, this book also provides a unique assessment of the more extensive factors that influence the management of workplace health and safety. The integration of practical regulation strategies with corporate objectives is particularly relevant to graduate curricula in business management, public policy, and occupational medicine.

Key Features
* Provides practical guidelines for industrial compliance with major OSHA regulations
* Presents concise explanations of technical and scientific concepts underlying regulatory requirements
* Integrates specific examples of the global economy's influence on the design and implementation of workplace health and safety
* Elucidates the effects of health and safety programs on financial and legal risk management practices in industry
* Includes explanations of practical alternative compliance strategies for company health and safety officers

No Dragons for Tea: Fire Safety for Kids (and Dragons)

No Dragons for Tea: Fire Safety for Kids (and Dragons) Review

While out for a walk with her mom, a little girl has the surprise of her life -- she meets a real, live, fire-breathing dragon! Now this dragon is nothing to be afraid of -- in fact, he's so friendly that she invites him home for tea. But their afternoon snack is suddenly interrupted when the dragon sneezes and sets the table ablaze. Luckily, the girl knows just what to do, and she teaches her new friend to be fire smart, too. With its funny, rhyming verse and spunky illustrations, No Dragons for Tea shows kids that learning about fire safety doesn't have to be scary. The story ends with "The Dragon's Fire Safety Rhyme" -- a fun and easy way to remember what to do in case of fire.

Aircraft system safety: Military and civil aeronautical applications

Aircraft system safety: Military and civil aeronautical applications Review

Providing a foundation for understanding this dynamic and evolving field, Aircraft System Safety explores methods for developing large transport aircraft systems. The book describes safety criteria, including objective targets which can be achieved or monitored and outlines the methods involved in auditing arguments. The author discusses system integration and how best to argue a system’s integrity. He covers the practical aspects of safety, such as integrating safety assessment into a product’s design and life cycle and meeting stakeholder expectations. The book pulls together a wealth of ideas, concepts, tools, and approaches to concisely present the theory of safety in a useful reference guide.

Making Capitalism Safe: Workplace Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940 (Working Class in American History)

Making Capitalism Safe: Workplace Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940 (Working Class in American History) Review

Workplaces in the United States are safer today than they were a hundred and twenty years ago. In this book, Donald W. Rogers attributes this improvement partly to the development in the Progressive Era of surprisingly strong state-level work safety and health regulatory agencies, a patchwork of commissions and labor departments that advanced safety law from common-law negligence to the modern system of administrative regulation. Rogers examines the Wisconsin Industrial Commission and compares it to arrangements in Ohio, California, New York, Illinois, and Alabama. Connecting this history to the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1970, Making Capitalism Safe will revise historical understandings of state regulation, compensation insurance, and labor law politics--issues that remain pressing in our time.

Dangerous Places: Health, Safety, and Archaeology

Dangerous Places: Health, Safety, and Archaeology Review

Archaeological sites often seem to be idyllic, even romantic, places where scientists recover and analyze fascinating data that can inform us of past times and the past lives of our recent historical and ancient prehistoric human forebears. Too often, however, unrecognized dangers lie within: bacterial and viral infections hidden in the soil, concealed in the animals that roam through our sites, or even lying in wait in organic remains we excavate; toxic substances produced by the historical technologies we study and that continue to poison the sites where people once worked; the bodies of people who died of historical scourges that once afflicted humanity and whose excavated mortal remains may still harbor the pathogens that killed them, dormant and lying in wait for an unsuspecting and largely no-longer immune modern population. It's enough to make an archaeologist swear off fieldwork!

The truth is, however, that archaeologists need to be alerted to the dangers present in fieldwork and advised of the reasonable precautions that should be taken to insure the safest possible working environment. ^IDangerous Places^R brings together an enormous body of information regarding the threats that archaeologists face every day, and the best ways of behaving proactively to avoid or mitigate these threats.

Electrical Safety and the Law

Electrical Safety and the Law Review

This book summarises the British legislation covering electrical safety, including those regulations derived from European directives. It also addresses the legislation relating to the supply and use of safety-related electrotechnical control systems, particularly on machinery.

As well as describing the legal framework, and the main legal duties and applicable standards, the book describes electrical hazards and how they arise; the types of accidents and dangerous occurrences associated with the use of electricity; the main safety precautions and protection techniques; testing and maintenance of electrical systems; safety during testing work; the safety of electrical installations and equipment used in flammable atmospheres; and the particular risks associated with underground cables and construction activity.

The Fourth Edition has been completely rewritten and expanded to include

. legislation (such as the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1999), standards and guidance material issued or amended since the last edition.

. a new chapter on safety related electrotechnical control systems, incorporating commentary on BS EN 954-1 and BS IEC 61508, the main generic standards addressing the safety integrity of such systems.

. a new chapter on the competence of practitioners working with electrical systems and safety-related control systems.

This book will make a very useful addition to any safety library and will provide a good reference source on electrical safety- Safety and Health Practitioner, November 2002

The MAK-Collection for Occupational Health and Safety: Part II: BAT Value Documentations (The MAK-Collection for Occupational Health and Safety. Part II: BAT Value Documentations (DFG))

The MAK-Collection for Occupational Health and Safety: Part II: BAT Value Documentations (The MAK-Collection for Occupational Health and Safety. Part II: BAT Value Documentations (DFG)) Review

This volume provides the documentations for the established BAT values and EKA, as well as for further biological exposure values, including an authoritative review of the available toxicological studies and data. For each substance, the metabolism and pharmacokinetics, critical toxicity, exposure and effects, suitable indicators of internal exposure, the evaluation of the BAT value and the correct interpretation of data are described. The basic physico-chemical data are also provided, making the documentations not only essential for the application of BAT values and EKA, but also provide a concise overview of biological monitoring for each substance.

Occupational Hazards in the Health Professions

Occupational Hazards in the Health Professions Review

This volume is written especially for health professionals affiliated with hospitals, veterinary clinics, dental offices, dental laboratories, toxicological testing laboratories, and pharmaceutical laboratories as a contribution to attain security in such working environments. Possible hazards in the working environments for the health professionals are discussed, followed by recommendations of the various precautions that may be taken to avoid these hazards. The possible hazards in hospitals discussed are ergonomics, physical hazards, chemical hazards, and bacteriological risks. The ergonomics, chemical hazards, and bacteriological risks for dental offices and veterinary clinics are also explained.

Shiftwork Safety and Performance: A Manual for Managers and Trainers

Shiftwork Safety and Performance: A Manual for Managers and Trainers Review

As more employees work non-routine hours, often in critical safety and security positions, recognizing and reducing stress and the human error it causes is more important than ever. Performance problems caused by unconventional work schedules and resulting fatigue are a significant cause of industrial accidents, lost productivity, and high medical costs. Shiftwork Safety and Performance offers practical solutions to managing fitness and health, improving alertness and sleep quality, and maintaining a social life while performing shiftwork. The author, an experienced safety consultant and trainer who has studied shiftwork around the country, explains the often disastrous consequences of inadequate alertness, and offers ways to improve morale and reduce accidents. If you supervise or train shiftworkers, this book will help you identify opportunities to improve workplace and worker safety.
This easy-to-read, practical manual introduces scheduling strategies to improve alertness, enhance the quality of time away from work, and assist crew communications. It is the first and only complete guide on the complex subject of shiftwork and human performance, and the first book addressing the serious subject of shiftworker burnout.