Occupational Health and Safety

Designed for professionals who deliver, manage, and hold oversight responsibility for occupational health in an organization or in the community, Occupational Health Services guides the busy practitioner and clinic manager in setting up, running, and improving healthcare services for the prevention,..

Designed for professionals who deliver, manage, and hold oversight responsibility for occupational health in an organization or in the community, Occupational Health Services guides the busy practitioner and clinic manager in setting up, running, and improving healthcare services for the prevention,..

This book will be helpful to get acquainted with the state-of-the-art in occupational health and safety research, as well as with some practical tools and approaches that are currently used by OSH-professionals in a global context...

This book is a compilation of some selected works within the domain of occupational ergonomics, safety and hygiene. The included works are focused on the selected topics, which include occupational safety, risk assessment, safety management, ergonomics, management systems, environmental ergonomics, ..

This compilation of selected papers in the domain of occupational ergonomics, safety and hygiene, focusses on occupational safety, risk assessment, safety management, ergonomics, management systems, environmental ergonomics, physical environments, construction safety, and human factors, among others..

This text focuses on the applied physiology of work in modern industry. After covering the biological background to work physiology and its relationship to work psychology and occupational medicine it goes on to explore the problems encountered in a..

This book collects the papers presented at the 9th International Conference on the Prevention of Accidents at Work (WOS 2017) held in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 3-6, 2017. The overall theme is Safety management complexity in changing society, with the motto: Do we need a holistic approach? U..

Society at large tends to misunderstand what safety is all about. In reality, safety is what you and your people do day by day to protect assets from harm and to control the hazards inherent in your operations. This is the purpose of Risk-Based Thinking, the key element of the six building blocks of..

Society at large tends to misunderstand what safety is all about. In reality, safety is what you and your people do day by day to protect assets from harm and to control the hazards inherent in your operations. This is the purpose of Risk-Based Thinking, the key element of the six building blocks of..

Erik Hollnagel introduces a comprehensive approach for the management of Safety-II, called the Resilience Assessment Grid (RAG). The RAG provides four sets of diagnostic and formative questions that can be tailored to any organisation. The questions are based on the principles of resilience engineer..

Presents a story of the 50-year struggle for recognition in the US of this pernicious occupational disease. This title explores three instances from the 1930s to the 1960s in which evidence suggested the existence of brown lung in the mills, yet nothing was done...

In this unique book, Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma. Our scientific age has equipped us ever better for explaining why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually makes it harder to explain why we suffer. Accidents and disasters have become technical problems without in..