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Process Machinery - Safety & Reliability
All manufacturers are now required to meet prescribed legislations relating to health and safety, fire precautions, safeguarding of moving parts, control of dangerous substances, and the like. This book provides a generatl interpretation of the Machinery Directive and other related legislation. The main objective is to ensure a common approach to helath and safety within the process industries. This is accomplished by identifying safety measures and outlining a procedures for the assessment of amchine safety and reliability. This Guide is an invaluable ready reference for day-to-day work. With its liberal use of real examples and cases, it provides a basic understanding ofthe issues involvedin and and the techniques available to improve safety and reliability. CONTENTS: Legal requirements; Hazard assessment; Operations and maintenance; Definitions; Materials safety sheet; Health and safety compliance checklist. CE data sheet; CE nameplate; The technical file index and documentation relating to a fire water pump.
Price: £19.00
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Improving Maintenance
This booklet provides practical step-by-step methods to help maintenance managers reduce human error by identifying and assessing issues that impact on the performance of maintenance staff.
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System Safety Engineering & Risk Assessment
As technological systems become more complex, it becomes increasingly difficult to identify safety hazards amd to control their impact. Engineers are finding that safety and risk touch upon every aspect of engineering system design, operation and disposal of life cycle. Unsafe systems can result in money lost due to accidents and lawsuits, loss of market share, degradation of the environment and ruined reputations. This guide shows how to build safety into products and industrial processes. Key safety and risk methods are discussed. The text also contains examples from various industries, demonstrating practical application, with a full explanation of safety tools.
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Workplace Safety
Health and safety is not a subject in its own right but is an integration of knowledge and information from a wide spectrum of disciplies. This book reflects this in the range of chapters written by experts and in bringing the benefits of their specialised experiences and knowledge together in a single volume. Contents: Introduction, Science in engineering safety, Fire precautions, Safe use of machinery, Electricity, Statutory examination of plant and equipment, Safety on construction sites, Managing chemicals safely, The environment - issues, law and management, Appendices, Index.
Price: £20.00
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Safety, Reliability and Risk Management (2nd edition)
This title examines the concepts of systems reliability and the techniques available for determining both 'technical' and 'human' hazard and risk. Emphasis is placed on technical systems and human factors and the increasing importance of psychological factors in the overall assessment of safety. This edition includes material that reflects the fact that the tool of Risk Assessment has been taken up by many industrial and commercial sectors since the first edition. Contents: Reliability; Enhanced Reliability; Hazard analysis; Data sources; The human connection; The computer connection; Risk analysis; Estimation of risk; Risk assessment; Risk assesssment and public policy; Some recent incidents and their implications; Limitations and uses of quantitative techniques.
Price: £40.00
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Safety Law
Contents: Introduction, Explaining the law, Principal health and safety Acts, Influences on health and safety, Law of contract, Industrial relations law, Consumer protection, Insurance cover and compensation, Civil liability, Appendices, Index.
Price: £20.00
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Safety at Work (5th edition)
The fifth edition has been extensively revised to encompass recent changes in health, safety, employment and environmental legislation. Major revisions have been made to the text throughout the book to reflect the new laws, standards and practices. Particular emphasis has been placed on the role of the manager and recognition has been given to the shift in employment numbers from manufacturing to service industries. New chapters cover the influences on health and safety, practical safety management and behavioural techniques and the management of chemicals, ergonomics and the environment. Contents: Part I: LAW; Explaining the law; Principal health and safety acts; Influences on health and safety; Law of contract; Industrial relations law; Consumer protection; Insurance cover and compensation; Civil liability; Part II: THE MANAGEMENT OF RISK: Principles of the management of risk; Risk management techniques and practices; The collection and use of accident and incident data; The individual; Practical behavioural techniques; Practice safety management Part III: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND HYGIENE: The structures and functions of the human body; Occupational diseases; Occupational hygiene; Radiation; Noise and vibration; Workplace pollution, heat and ventilation; Lightning; Managing ergonomics Part IV: SAFETY TECHNOLOGY: Science in engineering safety; Fire precautions; Safe use of work equipment; Electricity; Statutory examination of plant equipment; Safety on construction sites; Managing chemicals safely; The environment - issues, law and management; Appendices.
Price: £75.00
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Occupational Health and Hygiene
Contents: Introduction, The structures and functions of the human body, Occupational diseases, Occupational hygiene, Radiation, Noise and vibration, Workplace pollution, Heat and ventilation, Lighting, Managing ergonomics, Appendices, Index.
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Engineering System Safety
Everyone is concerned about safety - yet what exactly do we mean by 'safe' in the context of engineering systems? This book is intended for those who need to have some knowledge of the many aspects of safety, but do not wish to become specialists. The scope is such that an appreciation of the thinking and procedures is given enabling the reader to understand the activities of specialists and also the factors that influence safety decisions.
Price: £10.00
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Health & Safety in Brief
John Ridley's Safety at Work, Second Edition will sit alongside the new edition of Safety at Work to be published late 2001. Both will be completely up to date and will ensure that BH retain its stronghold in the publication of top-quality Industrial Health and Safety titles. Health and Safety in brief provides a comprehensive, yet easy to use reference guide for anyone with health and safety responsibilities and is an excellant reference source for the safety professional. Now the fundamental contents of the acclaimed Safety At Work are presented here in a user-friendly format, suitable for readers whose needs are less demanding than those of a professional member of IOSH. This will include students for the NEBOSH National General Certificate examinations, and the IOSH Managing Safety and Working Safety awards. This second edition also encompasses other readers whose roles demand a level of knowledge and competence in health and safety practice, including human resources managers, office and site managers and all line staff with health and safety responsibilities. Health and Safety in Brief Second Edition will prove to be as indispensable as its predecessor to a much wider audience, and as such will be an invaluable addition to the bookshelves of anyone working within the field of safety at work.
Price: £15.00
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