Safety and Health in Ports

Safety and Health in Ports
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789221152873

Port work is still considered an occupation with very high accident rates. This essential code of practice, intended to replace both the second edition of the ILO Code of Practice on Safety and Health in Dock Work (1977) and the ILO Guide to Safety and Health in Dock Work (1976), provides valuable advice and assistance to all those charged with the management, operation, maintenance and development of ports and their safety. Offering many detailed technical illustrations and examples of good practice, the provisions of this code cover all aspects of port work where goods or passengers are loaded or unloaded to or from ships. It is not limited to international trade but applies equally to domestic operations, including those on inland waterways. New topics are: traffic and vehicular movements of all types; activities on shore and on ship; amended levels of lighting provision; personal protective equipment; ergonomics; provisions for disabled persons; and the specific handling of certain cargoes, for example logs, scrap metal and dangerous goods.

Managing Health and Safety in Dockwork

Managing Health and Safety in Dockwork
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Docks
ISBN: 9780717620203

This booklet is aimed at all those who manage or are involved in dock operations or all those who supply labour for dockwork. It explains what they have to do to make sure that their company meets key requirements of health and safety law. As well as setting out the main hazards, there is advice on using temporary workers or workers from a labour supplier, training, consulting employees, providing information, co-operation and co-ordination, and controlling contractors. The book also contains sources of further information.

Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors

Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors
Author: Pedro M. Arezes
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2019-06-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030204979

This book discusses the latest findings on ensuring employees’ safety, health, and welfare at work. It combines a range of disciplines – e.g. work physiology, health informatics, safety engineering, workplace design, injury prevention, and occupational psychology – and presents new strategies for safety management, including accident prevention methods such as performance testing and participatory ergonomics. The book, which is based on the AHFE 2019 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors, held on July 24-28, 2019, Washington D.C., USA, provides readers, including decision makers, professional ergonomists and program managers in government and public authorities, with a timely snapshot of the state of the art in the field of safety, health, and welfare management. It also addresses agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), as well as other professionals dealing with occupational safety and health.

Guide to Ship Sanitation 3rd Edition

Guide to Ship Sanitation 3rd Edition
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Ships
ISBN: 9789240687936

The third edition of the Guide to Ship Sanitation presents the public health significance of ships in terms of disease and highlights the importance of applying appropriate control measures. It is intended to be a basis for the development of national approaches to controlling the hazards, providing a framework for policy-making and local decision-making. It may also be used as a reference for regulators, ship operators and ship builders as well as for assessing the potential health impact of projects involving the design of ships.

Applying Advanced Information Systems to Ports and Waterways Management

Applying Advanced Information Systems to Ports and Waterways Management
Author: Marine Board
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 66
Release: 1999-03-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 030951813X

The future safety of maritime transportation in the United States-a major factor in the nation's international trade and economic well-being-will depend heavily on the quality of port and waterways information systems. Many U.S. ports and waterways lack adequate information services, although certain elements of advanced systems are now available in some locations. Barriers to improvements in information systems include the division of responsibilities for waterways management among multiple agencies at all levels of government, a lack of coordination among the federal agencies responsible for waterways management, inadequate budgets for some critical maritime programs, the high costs of some specialized technologies, stakeholder opposition to user fees, limited access to certain key data, the incompatibility of many independently developed systems, and the absence of standards for some attractive technologies. In this report, the second phase of a three-year study by the Committee on Maritime Advanced Information Systems of the National Research Council, a strategy is presented for overcoming the major barriers and deficiencies and providing a minimum level of maritime safety information nationwide. In this phase of the study, the committee concentrated on maritime information systems that promote safety, which is the area of greatest need. The committee did not examine in detail the relationship between navigation safety and maritime transportation efficiency or evaluate information systems that promote efficiency; the committee believes, however, that these issues deserve further attention.

Integrated Occupational Safety and Health Management

Integrated Occupational Safety and Health Management
Author: Seppo Väyrynen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2014-12-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 331913180X

Maximizing reader insights into a new movement toward leadership approaches that are collaborated and shared, and which views Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and performance excellence within the wider examination of leadership relationships and practices, this book argues that these relationships and processes are so central to the establishment of OSH functioning that studying them warrants a broad, cross-disciplinary, multiple method analysis. Exploring the complexity of leadership by the impact that contexts (e.g., national and organizational culture) may have on leaders, this book discusses the related literature, then moves forward to show how a more comprehensive practical approach to Occupational Safety and Health and performance excellence can function on levels pertaining to events, individuals, groups, and organizations. This book proposes that greater clarity in understanding leadership in Occupational Safety and Health and performance excellence can be developed from addressing two fundamental issues. Firstly, how do subunit inputs and processes combine to produce unit-level outcomes and how does leadership affect this process? Secondly, how do the leaders influence the way that individual-level inputs are combined to produce organizational outputs. In these issues, the alternative methodologies that allow precise measurement of organizational outputs in OSH and performance excellence are reviewed. To help readers navigate through the best practices, each chapter contains Question Guidelines, Exercises and Case studies which illustrate the concepts discussed and which serves to highlight the key evidence demonstrating that collaborative leadership can positively affect individual, group, and organizational level outcomes, including organizational OSH and performance excellence.

Guidelines on Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems

Guidelines on Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

These guidelines have been prepared by the International Labour Office in order to assist employers and national organisations with practical advice on implementing and improving occupational safety and health (OSH) management systems, in order to reduce work-related injuries, occupational ill health and diseases and unsafe working conditions. The guidelines may be applied on two levels: they provide a national OSH framework for legal and voluntary regulatory standards; and encourage the integration of OSH management principles with overall policy management at the organisational level.

Port Operations, Planning and Logistics

Port Operations, Planning and Logistics
Author: Khalid Bichou
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2014-04-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317912705

Port Operations, Planning and Logistics offers detailed analysis of world port systems by applying both theoretical and practical (managerial) approaches to port operations, management and policy. The author draws from a rare combination of extensive cross-management professional experience and established multidisciplinary academic expertise to provide a structured publication that cuts across different research fields; economics, engineering, operations, technology, management, strategy and policy. The book explores various port topics including ICT and technology applications, investment and financing, pricing and asset management, contracts regulations, safety security and environmental management. Each is supported with case studies and practical examples of the latest developments in the field.