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In Combat-Related Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD: A Resource and Recovery Guide, authors Cheryl Lawhorne and Don Philpott offer guidance for the returning veteran, from treatment options, to diagnostic criteria and techniques, to resources for rehabilitation and support.

This new edition of Environmental Health and Safety Audits not only will help you put your company on course toward effective environmental compliance, but also now brings you up to date on changes in EPA and OSHA auditing policies, issues currently confronting auditing programs, and state-of-the-art strategies for managing and conducting audits.

This updated edition examines the latest regulatory and judicial developments involving the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and provides a clear, practical explanation of its requirements. Using this book, you will learn how to manage the "field side" of RCRA compliance, including identifying hazardous waste, transporting hazardous materials under EPA and DOT regulations, and disposing of solid wastes. You will also learn how to manage the "paperwork side" of RCRA compliance, working with such documents as RCRA permits, manifests and land ban documents, and underground-storage-tank notices. New issues addressed in this edition include the new provisions regarding recycling, the corrective action program, and the regulation of combustion units; changes in enforcement policy, civil and criminal liability, and citizen suits; and new regulations regarding land disposal, underground storage tanks, facilities siting, and municipal solid waste management.

The construction industry safety-and-health standards contained in this book will help employers, supervisors, and safety and health personnel understand their obligations and achieve compliance with OSHA standards in the workplace.

This practical guide to regulatory compliance and good management practice addresses key issues in underground storage tank (UST) management. Offers recommendations for developing and maintaining UST management programs that minimize the risk of a release and reduce the potential for costly repercussions.

Provides environmental and occupational-safety-and-health practitioners and students with a comprehensive overview of the principles and concepts of modern biology.

Addresses various topics from the history of the federal agencies that enforce the regulations to the requirements of the regulations themselves. This book provides facility managers with an instruction manual for understanding and complying with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations.

A guide to understanding and complying with the 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 1900-1910. It addresses common OSHA regulations in alphabetical order and helps eliminate the regulatory circles that make compliance difficult.

Addressing the most common causes of excavation, trenching, and shoring violations, Excavation Safety provides you with the insight you need to ensure compliance and protect workers'' lives and company investments. The author provides step-by-step methods for restricting workers from hazardous areas, providing egress from excavations, protecting workers from materials and equipment, selecting competent people to perform self-inspections, and ensuring a protection system is in place. The first part of the book explains the hazards of the excavation site and the need for safe work practices. The second part contains all relevant OSHA standards as well as extensive notes, annotations, and comments. You will learn which actions should be taken at each site to eliminate serious injury, work delays, and additional costs. Such actions include evaluating soil conditions and structure, designing support systems to guard against cave-ins, and conducting self audits to detect potential problems. You will also examine pre-site considerations, including educating workers about unmarked, undetected underground utility lines, identifying employer responsibilities, and establishing a training program based on OSHA''s model of voluntary training guidelines. Each chapter includes a content summary for quick reference, and the included case studies provide examples of common excavation errors and the corrective actions required to fix them.

Written in an easy-to-read conversational tone, Beyond Safety Accountability explains how to develop an organizational culture that encourages people to be accountable for their work practices and to embrace a higher sense of personal responsibility. The author begins by thoroughly explaining the difference between safety accountability and safety responsibility. He then examines the need of organizations to improve safety performance, discusses why such performance improvement can be achieved through a continuous safety process, as distinguished from a safety program, and provides the practical tools you can use to build personal responsibility in your workplace.

A valuable tool, this comprehensive reference simplifies the time-consuming process of searching through more than 14,000 pages of the Title 40 and 29 Code of Federal Regulations for sampling, analysis, and monitoring methods requirements, designated each year by EPA. Completely updated and greatly expanded from the previous edition, this edition features a new appendix containing the "EPA Index to Test Methods" and new sections on FIFRA, TSCA, noise control, and OSHA safety program. Within just one volume, you''ll find all the tables and listings of measurement methods that you need from eight major Acts: Clean Water Act; Safe Drinking Water Act; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; Clean Air Act; Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act; Noise Control Act; Toxic Substances Control Act; and Occupational Safety and Health Act. To make your job even easier, this book also contains chemical cross-reference tables by alphabetical order and CAS number order.

The Second edition helps you assess your exposure to disasters and formulate OSHA- and EPA-compliant plans that reduce the risk of losses. As well as revisiting disasters such as fires, explosions, floods, earthquakes, and transportation incidents, this edition reflects and examines changes made to emergency preparedness and mitigation efforts.

Used by OSHA inspectors to guide their inspection activities, this handbook can be used to develop a compliance program, prepare for an inspection, and avoid costly compliance problems. In addition to covering guidelines for abatement, citations, penalties, and investigations, this book covers maritime inspection, debt collection, federal agency safety and health programs, disclosure, water transportation services, SAVEs and AVDs, and money received from employers.

The success of any food manufacturer''s safety program depends on how accurately a facility interprets the laws and how it handles the hazards that workers face on a daily basis. This resource provides industry managers, safety directors, and workers with straightforward answers to complicated OSHA questions.Referencing FDA, USDA, and other regulatory standards as applicable, the authors explain the requirements of the twelve major Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards in Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 29 Part 1910 (general industry) and Part 1928 (agriculture) for food worker safety and provides examples to help ensure compliance with all applicable standards.The book examines the most serious health hazards in the industry, including inhalation of flavorings, radiation, and amputations, and identify ways to prevent accidents from occurring. They will address both industry-wide safety concerns and segment-specific hazards for meatpacking, poultry processing, fruit and vegetable canning, and food flavoring, and find information to help them overcome the language and cultural barriers of the food industry''s growing Hispanic workforce to ensure adequate protection for all.A complete sample food manufacturing safety program that meets OSHA requirements and a comprehensive checklist for completing self-audits are included.

This comprehensive guide to business aviation management provides in-depth and useful information on all aspects of managing a corporate aviation program, from regulations and safety concerns to finances and facility management. It is an essential tool for students and professionals who need accurate and practical information.

Although consultants influence the outcome of major endeavors in the fields of management, finance, government, and engineering, few attempts have been made to establish the tenets and techniques of consulting. In Principles and Practices of Professional Consulting, author Steven C. Stryker outlines the basic tools required of this critical skill. In doing so, he looks into the history of consulting, the consulting process itself, and the key practical skills and techniques that are needed for successful consulting. Case examples based on real-life situations aptly demonstrate the applicability of the material to current consulting activities.

Think your business is too small to have big safety issues? Not true. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 'a serious fire, a permanent injury, or the death of an employee or owner can cause loss of profit or even an entire business.' Applying the recognized principles of prevention outlined in this book not only helps reduce accidents, but it may also improve your company's efficiency and reduce insurance claims and other costs.

The newly revised and thoroughly updated Environmental Compliance Made Easy handbook from Government Institutes' popular "Made Easy" series reorganizes thousands of pages worth of federal environmental regulatory programs into one easy-to-use compliance resource, organized by program. Intended as both a beginner's guide and a veteran's reference, this edition provides readers with a concise summary of the major environmental programs. Readers will emerge with a fundamental understanding of which environmental management programs they should consider and how to implement them when developing proactive, successful, and reliable regulatory compliance programs.

Marine Safety provides a toolbox of field-tested and proven tools for assessing and managing marine risks and making better-informed decisions to prevent marine casualties. Using this book as a guide, managers in the marine industry learn to apply 12 common risk-based decision-making tools that help them make practical and technically-defensible decisions for managing port and waterway operations, conducting inspections, and preparing and responding to accidents. The authors thorough examine the 12 tools and include discussions on each tool's concepts, limitations, common uses, procedures, terminology, and applications to marine safety in a clearly outlined, user-friendly format.

Written for safety managers of both large and small fleets of vehicles, this complete guide shows you how to identify and understand your three key responsibilities as a safety manager: prevent accidents, protect your company's property against potential loss, and comply with the requirements of Occupational Safety and Health Act and Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations. Relevant motor-carrier-safety regulations are presented in easy-to-use checklists, simplifying the confusing task of compliance, and 15 ready-to-use forms for complying with DOT's reporting and recordkeeping requirements are included.

Used by the OSH Administration's compliance officers as a reference for technical information on safety and health issues, this manual enables both business and industry to evaluate their own facilities for compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The manual features all compliance and regulatory revisions issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, effective January 20, 1999, and covers such topics as sampling and measurement methods, health hazards, construction operations, health care facilities, ergonomics, and personal protective equipment.

The only training manual of its kind, this reference provides step-by-step guidance for training your facility and on-site commanders to respond to a hazardous materials spill in accordance with OSHA's HAZWOPER standard. Based on the author's successful two-day course, this book explains the Incident Command System, a hazardous materials management system that can be customized for the unique needs of each facility and each emergency. Incident commanders will learn how to manage an emergency response team, how to develop facility emergency response plans, and how to develop a facility incident command structure. Special features include a list of emergency response planning resources, sample forms for reporting and recording training, and sample decontamination plans.

The United States Department of Justice reports that one million violent crimes occur in the workplace annually, and case law and Occupational Safety and Health Act regulations hold employers liable. This book brings together the professional expertise, valuable insights, and practical advice that safety and health professionals need to identify why workplace violence occurs and how to control it.

Written by one of the nation's leading environmental law firms, this handbook provides concise, easy-to-understand explanations of your state compliance obligations. You'll get complete coverage of hazardous and solid waste disposal; air, water, and natural resources regulations; the state organizational structure; required permits and reports; the relationship between federal and state regulations; and more.

Learn where OSHA inspectors will look, what they'll look for, how they'll evaluate your working conditions, and how they'll actually proceed once inside your facility. This manual, used by OSHA, gives you insight into OSHA's views on abatement, fatality/catastrophe investigations, citations, imminent danger investigations, penalties, construction inspections, review commission, and federal agency inspections.

A layman's guide introducing wetlands ecology and law through a thorough discussion of the permit process. Attempting to unite the interests of developers, ecologies, and attorneys, the manual provides important discussions in wetland classification systems, determinations, and delineations and more.

Written for both paid and volunteer emergency managers, Essentials in Emergency Management examines why preparing a basic emergency plan, or "all hazards" plan, improves a community's ability to respond effectively in an emergency situation and provides recommendations and general guidance for creating an emergency response plan.

Identifies and fulfils the federal environmental requirements for your construction and development projects. This book features seven checklists to help you evaluate your compliance status through three stages of your project - pre-bid, pre-construction, and construction and a sample construction stormwater pollution prevention plan.