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This book examines how safety failings during the use of any designed product or system—be it a car, a building, or a chemical plant—can be mitigated through effective understanding of the conditions and controls surrounding its use.Drawing on historical failures and their own real-world experience, Dr Andy Painting and David England explain how corporate culture, engineering safety, personnel selection, and proper safety auditing are key ingredients to maintaining safety in all aspects of an organization's operations. This effective strategy is also crucial to linking back to the design of future products in establishing where operational failures have been identified and can therefore be'designed out'in future iterations. The book challenges silo thinking among the various safety-related disciplines and shows how this can be counter-productive to effective safety management.Effectively Managing the Case for Safety draws on key features from engineering, design, and health and safety processes, which, when used cohesively, promote a better working environment for everyone and help to reduce wasted time, money, and effort for any organization. Safety is tracked from the initial design stage through any product's entire service life and includes evidence of how safety affects, and is affected by, all those who interact with a product, system, or project. Following their first book, An Effective Strategy for Safe Design in Engineering and Construction, which demonstrated how current construction regulations can be used as a framework to ensure that safety is embedded into the design of virtually any product from machinery to buildings, this follow up book defines what safe is, how it is initially derived, and how the operational safety of any product, during its in-use phase, can be managed and assessed. The result is not only to ensure compliance with relevant regulations but also to actively ensure the ongoing safety of all those who interact with a product or project.

Deze praktjkgids ondersteunt werknemers, ondernemingsraden en VGW(M)-commissies bij hun inzet voor betere arbeidsomstandigheden.

This book is the most comprehensive review of health and safety in half a century. Most organisational approaches to health and safety are based on the methodology developed during the 1970s, and despite the workplace changing beyond recognition since that time, these approaches have remained untouched. Quantum Safety will develop a new understanding fit for the modern workplace. Quantum Safety is an approach that is part of the'new view'debate. There have been a number of other new approaches to health and safety in recent years, and while they all have merit and improve understanding to help create the optimal, safe working environment, they have failed to significantly create the change desired. These approaches are often flawed at the philosophical or conceptual level or propose a solution without a pathway to implement the principles in safety-critical environments. Quantum Safety: The New Approach to Risk Management for the Complex Workplace is founded on a wholesale critical analysis of the conceptual foundations of health and safety before translating the revised principles into a tangible methodology. Central to the development of Quantum Safety is the application of Complexity Science. The traditional approach to health and safety is considered to be Newtonian – it uses linear models and deterministic analysis. Quantum Safety, due to the full consideration of Complexity Science, introduces multidimensional models and develops analysis based on probabilities. Crucially, this does not render Newtonian methodologies as worthless – in the same manner that Newtonian physics was able to take mankind to the moon, but required the quantum understanding within computers to make it possible – Quantum Safety provides the mechanisms to complete organisations'safety-based journeys. The new mechanisms are fully developed for the reader at both macro and micro levels. How an organisation measures safety and what it values are reset and re-examined. How we investigate adverse events and the consequential actions taken with employees to develop a true Just Culture within a high-performing culture are also completely revised. Essentially, Quantum Safety creates a pathway for understanding health and safety in the complex modern world. To achieve that, new models are introduced to replace the dated, simple tools and a new language is developed to communicate this powerful approach. It will help propel an organisation from considering safety within a concept of industrialised failure avoidance to valuing safety as an integrated aspect of high performance.

Following the introduction of workplace safety legislation, the number of injuries has decreased but in recent years, this decline has plateaued. Constantly changing and new laws have not broken the deadlock so additional measures and thought transformation need to be added to the equation. Step forward Malcolm Tullett! Malcolm dares to tackle the risky issues with a refreshing methodology whilst providing real sector leadership. This book is a game changer and an absolute must for business owners and anyone who has responsibility for people and premises or is working in the industry.

Quelles sont les obligations de l'entreprise en matière de santé, sécurité et environnement? Comment analyser les risques encourus par une entreprise et ses salariés puis organiser la prévention? Comment gérer les situations d'urgence? Comment mettre en place un système de management SSE conforme aux exigences de l'ISO 14001 V2015 et de l'ISO 45001? Quels outils utiliser pour animer la démarche au quotidien?Découvrez 64 outils indispensables pour réussir votre démarche Santé-Sécurité-Environnement.Chaque outil est traité de façon visuelle sur 2 ou 4 pages par un schéma de synthèse, l'essentiel en français et en anglais, les objectifs, le contexte d'utilisation, des conseils méthodologiques, les avantages et les précautions à prendre et, pour certains, un cas d'entreprise commenté.Entièrement mise à jour et remaniée, cette 4e édition a été enrichie de nouveaux outils, tient compte des dernières évolutions réglementaires et de l'impact de la crise sanitaire.

Herbert William Heinrich has been one of the most influential safety pioneers. His work from the 1930s/1940s affects much of what is done in safety today – for better and worse. Heinrich's work is debated and heavily critiqued by some, while others defend it with zeal. Interestingly, few people who discuss the ideas have ever read his work or looked into its backgrounds; most do so based on hearsay, secondary sources, or mere opinion. One reason for this is that Heinrich's work has been out of print for decades: it is notoriously hard to find, and quality biographical information is hard to get.Based on some serious'safety archaeology,'which provided access to many of Heinrich's original papers, books, and rather rich biographical information, this book aims to fill this gap. It deals with the life and work of Heinrich, the context he worked in, and his influences and legacy. The book defines the main themes in Heinrich's work and discusses them, paying attention to their origins, the developments that came from them, interpretations and attributions, and the critiques that they may have attracted over the years. This includes such well-known ideas and metaphor as the accident triangle, the accident sequence (dominoes), the hidden cost of accidents, the human element, and management responsibility.This book is the first to deal with the work and legacy of Heinrich as a whole, based on a unique richness of material and approaching the matter from several (new) angles. It also reflects on Heinrich's relevance for today's safety science and practice.

Turbocharge employee engagement through health and safety ‘Health and safety'has regained its rightful place at the heart of the organization, alongside wellbeing and other people issues. Keeping it there, however, is tricky, and returns on investment are difficult to quantify. At the same time, companies yearn for new ways to engage their employees. Karen J. Hewitt urges us to switch gears on health and safety – from systems and compliance to inspiration and engagement. With her simple three-step formula (Build, Buzz, Bake), she offers us her recipe for building employee engagement through health and safety, with significant gains for the business overall.

Der Leitfaden für Betriebe und Beschäftigte Im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie haben einige versucht, die Probleme zu verdrängen und zu verharmlosen, bei anderen haben sich Angst und Verunsicherung breit gemacht. Die Broschüre will helfen, kühlen Kopf zu bewahren und planmäßig vorzugehen. Welche Alternativen stehen vorbeugend, aber auch abwehrend und gefährdungsbeschränkend zu Gebote? Informativ und verlässlich gibt der Ratgeber Antwort auf alle wesentlichen Fragen rund um Corona und dem daraus resultierenden erforderlichen Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz. Die Broschüre informiert darüber, wie ein achtsamer Umgang untereinander sowie mit gesundheitlich beeinträchtigten oder schutzbedürftigen Beschäftigten unter Einhaltung der rechtlichen Vorgaben aussieht leistet Aufklärung über die organisatorischen Konsequenzen von der Arbeitsverlagerung ins Home-Office, der Berücksichtigung einer Pflichtenkollision zwischen Arbeitspflicht und der Sorge für Kinder und pflegebedürftigen Angehörigen bis zur Einführung von Kurzarbeit enthält Checklisten zur Gefährdungsbeurteilung und Pandemie-Planung, sowie Muster und Eckpunkte einer Betriebsvereinbarung hilft Ihnen die rechtlichen Regelungen leichter zu erfassen und eine adäquate betriebliche Vorsorge zu treffen Inhalt Was gilt, wenn Angehörige erkrankt sind? Kann der Arbeitgeber Beschäftigte mit „verdächtigen“ Symptomen nach Hause schicken? Was ist, wenn die Arbeit wegen Covid-19 ausfällt? Welche Aspekte sind in Bezug auf den Arbeitsschutz zu beachten? Wie schaut die richtige Pandemieplanung für ein Unternehmen aus? Informationen bezüglich wichtiger Themen: Krankmeldung vereinfachen, Arbeitszeiten ändern, Arbeitsrecht im Pandemiefall, Home-Office und mobiles Arbeiten, Aufrechterhaltung des Minimalbetriebs, Betriebsschließung als letztes Mittel, Mitbestimmung des Betriebsrats / Personalrats

The magazine's publications deal with issues related to work safety. Both in the area of occupational health and safety, organization of the workplace (technical aspects) and the environment (environmental factors in working conditions). The publications presented combine legal requirements in the field of work safety with the technical solutions that are designed to meet the minimum requirements. They present and analyze the requirements of technological processes carried out at workplaces. Sociological issues are also carried out in the analyzes, in the scope of training and creating a safety culture within production enterprises. Scope Subject areas, suitable for publication, include the following fields: Health and safety management systems Technological safety The role of the human factor in occupational health and safety management systems Safety of technical facilities operation (safety engineering) Environmental safety management Safety management of products and services Management of occupational risk Economical aspects of occupational health and safety Legal aspects of health and safety at work Safety in material engineering Safety in civil engineering Product quality and user safety Safety logistics Safety in innovation and their transfer Knowledge and information management 7th International Conference SYSTEM SAFETY HUMAN - TECHNICAL FACILITY – ENVIRONMENT e-Book ISBN: 978-3-11-060540-2 8th International Conference SYSTEM SAFETY HUMAN - TECHNICAL FACILITY – ENVIRONMENT e-Book ISBN: 978-83-957204-3-7 Archiving Sciendo archives the contents of this journal in　Portico　- digital long-term preservation service of scholarly books, journals and collections. Plagiarism Policy The editorial board is participating in a growing community of　Similarity Check System's　users in order to ensure that the content published is original and trustworthy. Similarity Check is a medium that allows for comprehensive manuscripts screening, aimed to eliminate plagiarism and provide a high standard and quality peer-review process.

This book provides one of the first systematic accounts of how corporations manage risk to workers and consumers. Careful analysis and interviewing in different corporations elicit a portrait of the myriad hazards that currently confront industry, the corporate programs and resources that have emerged since 1970 to respond to this challenge, and factors that have contributed to successes and failures. In-depth studies of the Volvo Car Corporation, Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, Union Carbide's Bhopal facility, and large chemical and pharmaceutical corporations provide a state-of-the-art assessment of the advances and problems inherent today in industrial safety management. Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Christoph Hohenemser are senior researchers at Clark University's Center for Technology, Environment, and Development (CENTED). Roger E. Kasperson is Director of CENTED and its Hazard Assessment Group. Jeanne X. Kasperson is Research Librarian at CENTED and Senior Research Associate in Brown University's World Hunger Program. Hohenemser, a professor of physics, directs the Environment, Technology, and Society Program at Clark University. Robert W. Kates, formerly with CENTED, is Director of the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program at Brown University. Ola Svenson, of the Department of Psychology at Lund University in Sweden, is a leading researcher in the field of risk perception and decision analysis.

In diesem Fachbuch zum betrieblichen Gesundheitsmanagement werden von Herangehensweisen über Instrumente bis zum Controlling die wichtigsten Handlungsfelder der gesunden Arbeitswelt vorgestellt: Wo anfangen? Welche Bereiche abdecken? Wen einbeziehen? Wie Erfolge messen? Wie am Ball bleiben? Damit Sie als Personal- und Gesundheitsverantwortliche den Überblick in einem herausfordernden Aufgabenfeld behalten und Ihre Mitarbeiter gesund und arbeitsfähig erhalten. Die 4. Auflage berücksichtigt inhaltliche Erweiterungen u. a. zu gesundheitspsychologischen Modellen, zur Konsolidierung und zu Erfolgsfaktoren eines effektiven Gesundheitsmanagements. Ein Update zu den rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen und zur empirischen Ausgangslage vervollständigt die überarbeitete Auflage, die ihre Inhalte neu strukturiert dem Leser zur Verfügung stellt.

This book describes a systematic approach to risk assessment for complex socio-technical systems like industrial processes, especially innovative ones. It provides an overview of applications of system dynamics theory and methodologies on industrial systems in order to demonstrate the relevance of such an approach in helping to assess risks in such complex systems. An important feature of this approach is that it takes into account the dynamic of the interactions of the components (technical, human and organizational ones) in order to study and simulate the behavior of the system. This methodology helps to define the failures and/or accident scenarios and to implement and test the prevention and protection barriers. This book is of particular interest to students and teachers at university level (Master and Doctorate) and to engineers interested in risk analysis and management.

Over recent years, many companies have developed an awareness of the importance of an active, rather than passive, approach to wellbeing at work. Whilst the value of this approach is widely accepted, turning theory into effective practice is still a challenge for many companies.The Routledge Companion to Wellbeing at Work is a comprehensive reference volume addressing every aspect of the topic. Split into five parts, it explores different models of wellbeing; personal qualities contributing to wellbeing; job insecurity and organizational wellbeing; workplace supports for wellbeing; and initiatives to enhance wellbeing. The international team of contributors provide a solid foundation to research and practice, including contemporary topics such as architecture, coaching, and fitness in the workplace.Edited by two of the world's leading scholars on the subject, this text is a valuable tool for researchers, students, and practitioners in HRM and organizational psychology.

This book is not about performance. It is also not about safety. It is about both performance and safety, and how these two are unavoidably linked, in all circumstances whether they like it or not. It is the combination of tireless attention for and performance and safety that delivers sustainable profits in any organisational context. To this end, the authors elaborate and describe an approach that can be used exactly for dealing with performance and safety in one go, and asking the right questions at the right time to the right people. The idea is to align the different teams and levels within the organisation through shaping the right mental models, dialogue, and respect. Leadership and management practices are indispensable in this regard, and the book therefore explains their roles and tasks as well. Applying the concepts, approaches, models, practices and recommendations given and expounded in the book leads to excellent sustainable results as well as the long-term viability of any organisation. This book includes chapters on mental models, measuring unsafe situations/activities, risk management, dialogue skills, leadership models, change management, and organisational alignment. The approach that is explained herein is called Total Respect Management and can be considered as a user-friendly way to achieve safety (Safety-I) and performance (Safety-II) proactively in any organisational context.

Gesunde Führung und organisationale Resilienz auf Basis einer umfassenden Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) sind die zentralen Themen dieses Buches. Die Gesundheit von Mitarbeitern, wie auch von Führungskräften, wird vor allem im psycho-sozialen Bereich immer mehr in Mitleidenschaft gezogen: Symptome wie Burnout, Depression und Präsentismus sind Folgen, mit weitreichenden Auswirkungen. Gesunde Führung, die über das klassische Berufliche Gesundheitsmanagement (BGM) hinausgeht, ist daher der Schlüssel für nachhaltige Leistungsfähigkeit. CSR, Gesunde Führung und organisationale Resilienz rücken damit in den Kernbereich des Managements vor. Das Werk stellt hierzu moderne Konzepte sowie aktuelle empirische Studien vor. Zudem werden vielfältige erfolgreiche Praxisbeispiele zur Umsetzung gesunder Führung aufgezeigt. Der Band ermuntert zum unternehmerischen Handeln und gibt erprobte Methoden zu einer sinnvollen und machbaren Praxis für Führungskräfte weiter.

O livro Técnico de Segurança do Trabalho: a dura realidade da profissão é um convite para conversas sobre a atividade humana e uma ferramenta para a reflexão. Os autores retratam, por meio de exemplos, as duras realidades encontradas pelos técnicos de segurança do trabalho nos ambientes laborais, revelando como esses profissionais, muitas vezes, são contratados por força de lei e deparam-se com uma gama de obstáculos que trazem desafios ao exercício da sua profissão. Ações de prevenção – que lhes compete – e que buscam garantir a saúde e a integridade física dos trabalhadores, em inúmeras ocorrências, são deliberadamente dificultadas. As razões e alguns possíveis desdobramentos prejudiciais ao profissional prevencionista estão aqui fielmente relatados, o que faz desta obra uma leitura recomendada a todos os técnicos da área, gestores das empresas que necessitam de ações de prevenção e interessados em conhecer algumas realidades da profissão. Vale a pena conferir!

Integrating development processes, policies, and reliability predictions from the beginning of the product development lifecycle to ensure high levels of product performance and safety, this book helps companies overcome the challenges posed by increasingly complex systems in today's competitive marketplace. Examining both research on and practical aspects of product quality and reliability management with an emphasis on applications, the book features contributions written by active researchers and/or experienced practitioners in the field, so as to effectively bridge the gap between theory and practice and address new research challenges in reliability and quality management in practice. Postgraduates, researchers and practitioners in the areas of reliability engineering and management, amongst others, will find the book to offer a state-of-the-art survey of quality and reliability management and practices.

Dieses Buch führt Sie in Methodik und Praxis des Task Force Managements einKarim Bortal erklärt Ihnen in diesem Buch, was sich hinter dem Task Force Management verbirgt und wie es in der Praxis funktioniert. In erster Linie kommt diese Managementmethode bei der Bewältigung gravierender Krisen und akuter Probleme in Unternehmen und Organisationen zum Einsatz. Doch das ist noch nicht alles – eine Task Force ist auch eine gute Möglichkeit, Herausforderungen außerhalb des Daily Business zu meistern. Dieses Buch präsentiert kompakt und leicht verständlich alle Vorgehensweisen und Entscheidungsprozesse, die Sie dazu benötigen. Der Autor schildert die Aufgaben eines Task Force-Managers, gibt praktische Tipps zur Aufstellung eines geeigneten Teams und zeigt, wie Sie die gewählte Methodik am besten umsetzen. Eine intensive Form der ProjektarbeitBei einer Task Force handelt es sich um eine andere Bezeichnung für eine Gruppe von Experten, die temporär (in Form eines Interim Managements) für das Krisen-, Risiko- oder Problemmanagement innerhalb einer Organisation zuständig sind. Bortal zeigt, dass hinter dem Force Management letztendlich eine intensive Form der Projektarbeit steckt, da es auch hier darauf ankommt, Entscheidungsfindungen und Teambuilding rasch und effizient umzusetzen. Wie Unternehmen eine Task Force erfolgreich in den Unternehmensalltag integrieren können, erläutert Bortal anhand der folgenden drei Fragen: •Wie wird die Task Force in die Unternehmensorganisation integriert?•Welche Rahmenbedingungen gelten beim Einsatz einer Task Force?•Wie gestaltet sich die Organisation einer Task Force?Reale Fallbeispiele aus der AutomobilbrancheDank aktueller Fallbeispiele aus der Automobilindustrie zur Durchführung und Methodik des Task Force Managements erhalten Sie in diesem Buch weit mehr als nur das theoretische Hintergrundwissen. Interviews mit Experten, die selbst Projektleiter einer Task Force waren, aber auch immer wieder Task Forces beauftragt haben, runden das Buch ab und geben Ihnen einen detaillierten Einblick in die Praxis. Ein hilfreicher Leitfaden für Unternehmer, Manager sowie Unternehmensberater.

Keine Zeit zu haben, aber auch Geldmangel und fehlende Investitionsbereitschaft sind die wichtigsten Begründungen dafür, keine Prävention zu betreiben. Doch was passiert, wenn ich diese Zeit und Investition nicht aufbringe? Tritt ein Schaden ein, der durch Prävention vermeidbar gewesen wäre, so sind die Kosten und der Zeitaufwand um den Faktor 10 höher. Nach wie vor vernachlässigen Unternehmen und Führungskräfte in ihrer täglichen Arbeit, bei Projekten und Programmen, aber auch beim Menschen die Vorsorgemaßnahmen sträflich. Die Autoren zeigen, was alles zu berücksichtigen ist und warum Prävention für alle Unternehmen zwingend notwendig ist - von der Ersteinschätzung und Machbarkeit über die Bedarfsermittlung bis hin zur ausführlichen Kosten-, Finanzierungs- und Personalplanung. Dabei geht es nicht nur um Gesundheitsprävention, sondern das Konzept der Prävention wird auch auf Betriebswirtschaft, Steuern, Prozesse und Führung angewendet: Alles braucht vorsorgende Maßnahmen.

El estándar OHSAS 18001:2007 establece los requisitos que debe cumplir un sistema gestión de seguridad y salud en el trabajo para que las organizaciones puedan controlar eficazmente los riesgos asociados con sus actividades, mejorando su desempeño de forma continua. ¿Qué aspectos relevantes incluye? - Mayor importancia al término'salud'equiparándolo con el de'seguridad'. - Definiciones tan relevantes como'incidentes','riesgos','evaluación de riesgos', así como una profunda revisión de la terminología ya existente. - Requisitos relativos a la participación y consultoría, así como a la investigación de incidentes. - Mayor compatibilidad con las normas UNE-EN ISO 14001:2004 y UNE-EN ISO 9001:2000. OHSAS 18001 permite: - Mejorar el desempeño de la gestión de la seguridad y salud en el trabajo y demostrar su compromiso con el cumplimiento de las exigencias de la legislación vigente. - Identificar situaciones de emergencia potenciales, determinar deficiencias del sistema de gestión, y facilitar la integración de sistemas de gestión de la calidad, ambiental y de seguridad y salud en el trabajo.

Unsere Arbeitswelt, geprägt durch Leistungsdruck, Flexibilisierungszwang und demografischen Wandel, erfordert eine neue Sichtweise auf den „Faktor Mensch': Um Mitarbeiter trotz zunehmender Belastungen gesund zu erhalten und ihre Beschäftigungsfähigkeit zu fördern, sind Maßnahmen der betrieblichen Gesundheitsarbeit gefragt. Personaler, Gesundheitsverantwortliche und Geschäftsführung stehen vor der Herausforderung, die Themen des Gesundheitsmanagements in ihr Aufgabenportfolio zu integrieren – und damit vor einer komplexen und oft unklaren Auftragslage. Die Autoren zeigen in ihrem Leitfaden Kernprozesse und neue Wege im Gesundheitsmanagement auf. Durch eine psychologische Sichtweise erweitern sie die Handlungsmöglichkeiten im Umgang mit der Gesundheitsförderung. Das Buch richtet sich an Praktiker: Es präsentiert ein direkt umsetzbares Modell für die Praxis, Ansätze für die zentralen Bereiche Psyche, Körper, Wissen, Motivation, Verhalten und Instrumente, mit denen Problemlagen identifiziert und Erfolge gemessen werden können. Konkrete Tipps, Fallbeispiele, Experteninterviews sowie Arbeitsmaterialien im Internet (Abbildungen und Präsentationen für Dozenten, Worshop-Abläufe) machen es zu einem kompletten Werkzeugkasten für das Aufgabenfeld „Gesundheitsmanagement'. Die zweite Auflage wurde umfassend ergänzt, u.a. um neue empirische Befunde, eine Aktualisierung der rechtlichen Faktenlage, Checklisten zur Gesundheitskommunikation und einem Kapitel zu evidenzbasiertem BGM.

This book contains practical, comprehensive and effective guidance and advice for addressing the issue of workplace violence. It is written in plain language and in a non-theoretical, reader-friendly format for quick and easy reference. Topics include the risk factors that contribute to workplace violence, as well as the effects of violence. Discussion also includes the procedures for assessing threat, strategies for preventing violence, and strategies for dealing with the consequences of violence. Special situations such as domestic violence and the workplace, and racial and sexual harassment are also included, as are various court cases that involve these issues. The new OSHA directive on investigation workplace violence is also explained.

Managing safety in a professional environment requires constant negotiation with other competitive dimensions of risk management (finances, market and political drivers, manpower and social crisis). This is obvious, although generally not said in safety manuals. The book provides a unique vision of how to best find these compromises, starting with lessons learnt from natural risk management by individuals, then applying them to the craftsman industry, complex industrial systems (civil aviation, nuclear energy) and public services (like transportation and medicine). It offers a unique, illustrated, easy to read and scientifically based set of original concepts and pragmatic methods to revisit safety management and adopt a successful system vision. As such, and with illustrations coming from many various fields (aviation, fishing, nuclear, oil, medicine), it potentially covers a broad readership.

Safety training in easy, complete, 7-minutes sessions on hundreds of topics.

As a critical function in monitoring workplace safety, loss control auditing provides an organizational assessment of safety program performance in relation to regulatory requirements and company policies. Principles of quality management dictate that measurement of an activity receives organizational attention and provides an excellent tool for co

The “Handbook of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety in Engineering Design” studies the combination of various methods of designing for reliability, availability, maintainability and safety, as well as the latest techniques in probability and possibility modeling, mathematical algorithmic modeling, evolutionary algorithmic modeling, symbolic logic modeling, artificial intelligence modeling, and object-oriented computer modeling. The book encompasses both a depth of research into engineering design methods and techniques, and a breadth of research into the concept of integrity in engineering design. These topics add significant value to the theoretical expertise and practical experience of process, chemical, civil, mechanical, electrical, and electronic engineers, by considering process engineering design from the point of view of “what should be achieved” to meet criteria for designing for reliability, availability, maintainability and safety.

An insightful and comprehensive book for the busy manager on managing health and safety in the workplace

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Are you looking to save your company money whilst improving employee well being? A safe, healthy working environment is good for business. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has identified companies where specific financial advantages were attributable to improved health and safety: one company saved £12 for every £1 it spent; a 73% reduction in employee insurance claims and 18% fewer days lost to injuries; a 50% reduction in civil claims. When you consider that in 2004-5 28 million working days were lost due to work-related ill-health and 7 million due to workplace injury, the benefits of a health and safety culture are obvious. This book explores the managerial roles and responsibilities with regard to safety. Applying key legal requirements to the workplace, it looks at how workplace facilities are managed and how materials and equipment are used, stored and maintained for optimum effectiveness. It not only aids organisations to achieve success, but to maintain it.

We all know that the future is uncertain, but rather than make any attempt to actively manage our futures in a consistent way, we tend to make broadbrush assumptions based on common-sense and intuition alone. Successfully managing risk is a primary ingredient for success in a fast-paced environment where we are bombarded by the need to make critical decisions, often with little or no solid facts available and little insight into the likely outcomes. Smart Things to Know About Risk Management, in a step-by-step approach, shows the reader what is risk management and why it matters, the categories of risk, how to achieve the right balance of risk, knowing your risk appetite, how to actively manage your risks and develop a risk culture and techniques, tools and models for managing risk. Case studies are also included. • Perfect for the SMART treatment - this book starts from basics, assumes no prior knowledge and gives a step-by-step approach. • Step-by-step approach. Covers the background to risk and risk management as well as practical application and techniques, tools and models for managing risk. • Written by a highly experienced practitioner with a formidable working knowledge in this area.