Bøger i Occupational Safety and Health serien

Offers managers, architects, plant engineers, technicians, and others with a background in the principles of fire protection and property loss control (a chapter on life safety elements). This title covers characteristics and behavior of fire.

Offers an overview of the hazards of occupational noise exposure, causes of hearing loss, testing of hearing and criteria to distinguish occupational hearing loss. This book emphasizes medical and societal factors in its coverage of topics such as audiometry and who should do it and conductive and sensorineural hearing loss.

Presenting ANSI standards for safe use of lasers, this guide explains how a laser works, what a laser beam can do to biological tissue and eyewear lenses, and how to work safely with lasers.

This book describes how safety and other professionals may use safety database software on a personal computer to manage their safety and health programs. It emphasizes the tech­niques and features necessary to develop a computerized safety data system for a personal computer.

Based on the National Academy of Sciences approach to quantitative risk assessment. Emphasizes how an accurate assessment of cancer risk must draw on a wide range of disciplines, such as biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and the social sciences. Provides tables of Poisson confidence limit fa

This book presents ideas to hotel/motel security directors and managers to help them understand some of the problems with which they will be confronted, the various approaches to solutions, and the ways of relating to other members of the management team to achieve optimum results.

Shows how to integrate safety skills into job training through behavior modification and various instructional methods.

Presenting fundamental knowledge related to worker protection from chemical, thermal, and biological hazards, this practical reference focuses on recent scientific and technical developments in protective apparel systems. It introduces relevant health and safety legislation and rulings for worker safety.

Contains the latest revision of ANSI standards for safe use of lasers. A workbench guide that explains how a laser works, what a laser beam can do to biological tissue and eyewear lenses, and how to work safely with lasers. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.