Managing Health at Work: A Guide for Managers and Workplace Health Specialists

Managing Health at Work: A Guide for Managers and Workplace Health Specialists Review

Managing Health at Work reviews recent developments in the field of workplace health from a practical point of view. It is aimed at managers and health specialists concerned with initiating new policies to develop and improve workplace health. The book provides essential guidance in managing health at work, gives specific examples of good practice and alerts the reader to relevant guidelines surrounding issues such as stress, cancer, HIV and AIDS, RSI, health eating and exercise. The author argues that increasing attention should be paid to the use of workplace health especially with the growing number of employees making claims against their employers for a wide range of health problems.

The Law of Emergencies: Public Health and Disaster Management

The Law of Emergencies: Public Health and Disaster Management Review

The Law of Emergencies introduces the American legal system as it interacts with emergency management and public health issues. Hunter engages with and debates some of the most important Constitutional issues of our time, such as the tension between civil liberties and national security. She also shows how the law in this area plays out in the context of real life emergencies where individuals often have to make split-second decisions.

This book covers the major legal principles underlying emergency policy and operations. It analyzes legal authority at the federal, state and local levels, placing the issues in historical context but concentrating on contemporary questions. It includes primary texts, reader-friendly expository explanation, and sample discussion questions. Prior knowledge of the law is not necessary in order to use and understand this book. The contents are organized into 13 substantive chapters plus two additional chapters with problem sets. This makes it especially easy to use for a separate course focused on law.

This book satisfies the need of professionals in a wide array of fields related to emergency management to understand both what the law requires and how to analyze issues for which there is no clear legal answer. It features materials on such critical issues as how to judge the extent of Constitutional authority for government to intervene in the lives and property of American citizens. At the same time, it also captures bread-and-butter issues such as responder liability and disaster relief methods. No other book brings these components together in a logically organized, step by step fashion.

* Features case studies of high-risk scenarios including pandemic flu
* Offers extensive analysis of legal issues from a distinguished scholar, together with charts and text boxes for clarification
* Teaches readers how to think about issues crucial to the life and liberty of US citizens, including the limits of constitutional authority

Safe by Design: Designing Safety in Health Care Facilities, Processes, and Culture

Safe by Design: Designing Safety in Health Care Facilities, Processes, and Culture Review

This book is a handy reference devoted exclusively to helping you design safety into your health care facility, both for new facilities and renovations. You will: discover the value of involving nurses, physicians, medical directors, patients, and others during the design development stage; read about the experiences of health care organizations that have succeeded in designing and constructing safe environments; learn the latest design trends and what they can do for patient safety in health care environments; and, gain cutting-edge information from an internationally recognized expert featured in "The Wall Street Journal".

Preventing Injuries and Deaths from Falls during Construction and Maintenance of Telecommunication Towers

Preventing Injuries and Deaths from Falls during Construction and Maintenance of Telecommunication Towers Review

Alerts briefly present new information about occupational illnesses, injuries, and deaths. Alerts urgently request assistance in preventing, solving, and controlling newly identified occupational hazards. Workers, employers, and safety and health professionals are asked to take immediate action to reduce risks and implement controls.

Safety and Environmental Training: Using Compliance to Improve Your Company (Industrial Health & Safety)

Safety and Environmental Training: Using Compliance to Improve Your Company (Industrial Health & Safety) Review

Safety and Environmental Training Using Compliance to Improve Your Company Written with an insider's candor, this easy-to-use guide gives practical information on how to implement, develop, or improve employee training programs in compliance with current governmental legislation. It shows how, in actual practice, compliance with training requirements can be designed to improve multiple aspects of a company's operations. Taking a proactive stance, Safety and Environmental Training is the only reference of its kind which demonstrates proven methods on how managers can incorporate regulatory compliance into everyday work routines so that it becomes a logical, effective, and positive force in the workplace. Virtually all of the OSHA and EPA regulations impacting industrial safety and environmental health contain employee training requirements. The training task usually falls into the laps of human resource development professionals, safety engineers, and environmental managers, who often lack a full understanding of the safety and environmental regulations that they are supposed to implement. This book presents a practical approach to employee safety and environmental training that aids managers in improving operations while meeting the training requirements of many of the hazardous materials, protective equipment, hazardous waste, and pollution prevention regulations which impact both business and industry. Training expert Dawn Baldwin provides a self-teaching guide that lets readers develop, implement, or improve employee training programs. Very often a demonstration example will show how training can be accomplished during regular production operations, and incorporated into standard operating procedures, which makes the message all the more relevant and meaningful to employees. While there are a number of training books available, none presents safety and environmental training information in a more candid or informative light.

Kids Keeping Kids Safe (Safety Kids Club activity book)

Kids Keeping Kids Safe (Safety Kids Club activity book) Review

Kids Keeping Kids Safe is an 80-page parent/child read together personal safety activity quide. The Safety Kids Club present the fun easy way to help teach children personal safety. Children gain safety smarts, self-confidence and have fun learning personal safety skills with safety Sam and the Safety Kids Club. It includes over 101 tips to keep kids safe. Kids Keeping Kids Safe is written on a child's level to help children learn personal safety in a fun non-fearful manner. Recommended for children ages 4-11.

Workplace Health: Employee Fitness And Exercise (Dark Secrets)

Workplace Health: Employee Fitness And Exercise (Dark Secrets) Review

Given the growing awareness of the negative effects of work-related stress, Many Businesses Are Focusing On Active Health Promotion To Enhance employee health, well-being and performance. This text aims to review the state of the art and offer ideas and suggestions for how stress-related employee health problems can be combated through the provision of effective fitness and exercise programmes.

Managing Change for Safety & Health Professionals: A Six Step Process

Managing Change for Safety & Health Professionals: A Six Step Process Review

Pierce helps you take control of the dizzying process of effecting changing procedures, processes, and attitudes in your company's safety and health program and then position your operations for continuous improvement. He reviews Total Quality and its benefits over traditional management, provides a detailed plan for implementing a six-step process for effecting change, and outlines successful strategies, challenges, and pitfalls to avoid.

The Vnr Dictionary of Environmental Health and Safety

The Vnr Dictionary of Environmental Health and Safety Review

As concerns about the environment and environmental safety have grown significantly in recent years, so has the related terminology. This timely dictionary contains more than 7,000 entries that encompass current environmental health and safety issues. Entries were selected by contributors who are specialists in the field of environmental health and safety. These well-written definitions are a boon to technically trained individuals and interested laypersons. Concise alphabetically-arranged definitions make the VNR dictionary ideal for on-the-job reference. Some terms have multiple definitions and many of the terms are cross-referenced, to ease access. Among the disciplines represented: agronomy, biosafety, biostatistics, ecology, environmental law, epidemiology, general safety, general sanitation (food and waters as well as refuse and sewage disposal), hazardous materials control, industrial hygiene, microbiology, and radiation. Also Provided are a list of acronyms and a list of chemical abstracts service (CAS) registry numbers, the latter for readers who wish to identify a material conclusively regardless of the name or naming system used. The VNR dictionary of environmental health and safety is a valuable reference for engineers, environmentalists, industrial hygienists, attorneys in environmental law, and all safety professionals.

Safety Ethics: Cases From Aviation, Healthcare And Occupational And Environmental Health

Safety Ethics: Cases From Aviation, Healthcare And Occupational And Environmental Health Review

Much of the previous literature in the field of safety focuses on either the technical equipment issues or the human performance factors that contribute to the active failures in safety-critical systems. However, this book provides guidance in the moral or ethical aspects of decision-making that perpetuate many of the latent failures in safety-critical systems. The book presents an interdisciplinary discussion of ethical decision-making and discusses the need to teach ethical decision-making in professional academic programs. It provides a concise introduction to the ethical foundations and follows up with case studies from aviation, healthcare, and environmental and occupational health. These cases illustrate the challenges faced by the individuals in their respective field and the reasons for the choices that they made in the face of adversities. Safety Ethics gives a fascinating insight into ethical decision-making for all those interested or involved in safety-critical environments. The book will be an extremely valuable guide for professionals in making decisions consistent with their beliefs and code of ethics.

Law & Mental Health Professionals: New Mexico

Law & Mental Health Professionals: New Mexico Review

Provides a thorough review of the laws in the state of New Mexico as they relate to the mental health profession. Addresses rulings about licensing; forms of business practice; insurance reimbursements and deductions for services; privacy of professional information; practice laws related to families, juveniles, civil matters, and criminal matters; and limitations on and liability for practice. Laws are explained with minimal legal jargon, making this reference maximally accessible to those outside of the legal profession.

Bridge Maintenance, Safety Management, Health Monitoring and Informatics - IABMAS '08: Proceedings of the Fourth International IABMAS Conference, ... (Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management)

Bridge Maintenance, Safety Management, Health Monitoring and Informatics - IABMAS '08: Proceedings of the Fourth International IABMAS Conference, ... (Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management) Review

An extensive collection of 550 revised papers on most recent advances in bridge maintenance, safety, management and life-cycle performance. This is a major contribution to the state-of-the-art in all aspects of the field, containing papers from leading experts. Set of Book with keynote papers and extended abstracts plus a 4500 pages, searchable, full-paper CD-ROM.

The Construction Foreman's Safety Handbook

The Construction Foreman's Safety Handbook Review

Safety is the most vital part of construction management today. Construction Foreman's Safety Handbook is an invaluable source of safety information, specifically written for job-site supervisor's. This book provides all the essential information you'll need to ensure construction sites are as safe as they can be and comply with OSHA regulations. You'll learn how to avoid potentially dangerous situations, construct a safety program that suits the job-site, and hear eyewitness accounts of accidents that happened while on the job.

Evaluating Worksite Health Promotion

Evaluating Worksite Health Promotion Review

Written for both students and seasoned practitioners, Evaluating Worksite Health Promotion presents a practical framework for evaluating health promotion in a variety of organizational settings.

The text lays a strong theoretical foundation, then builds on it with practical applications for containing costs and improving the power of programs. Drawing on more than 20 years of academic and private consulting experience, Dr. Chenoweth includes more than 19 case studies to deepen and broaden readers' understanding of how to conduct program evaluations in organizational settings.

The book's detailed instructions guide readers through the steps of successful worksite health promotion evaluations:

-Working with variables, data, experimental design, and other basic concepts

-Calculating benefit-cost, break-even and cost-effectiveness analyses, risk-factor cost appraisal, and forecasting

-Creating and administering tools for evaluating program effectiveness, including questionnaires, surveys, interviews, and claims data analysis

-Planning, conducting, and presenting an evaluation

Evaluating Worksite Health Promotion also features user-friendly pedagogical aids such as chapter objectives, review questions, and “What would you do?” situations that encourage discussion and reflection.

Practical and full of how-tos, this text is an ideal resource for readers seeking the financial, statistical, management, and measurement expertise required to conduct credible, objective, and successful evaluations.

California Health and Safety Code 2011

California Health and Safety Code 2011 Review

This edition of the California Health and Safety Code is based on materials made available by the Legislative Council of California. All updates as of January 1, 2011 are included. Statutes are annotated with legislative history.

Fire Safety (Be Safe!)

Fire Safety (Be Safe!) Review

Contents: What is safety?; Good fires and bad fires; Fire starters; Kitchen safety; Other fires; Stop, drop, and roll; Smoke detectors; Make a plan; Fire drill!; Getting out safely; Be smart around smoke; Call for help; Firefighters can help; Safety tips

Put an end to violence against women.: An article from: Women's Health Journal

Put an end to violence against women.: An article from: Women's Health Journal Review

This digital document is an article from Women's Health Journal, published by Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network on January 1, 2010. The length of the article is 758 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Put an end to violence against women.
Author: Unavailable
Publication:Women's Health Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2010
Publisher: Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network
Volume: 2010 Issue: 1 Page: 8(2)

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