Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide, Third Edition

Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide, Third Edition
Author: W. David Yates
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 923
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 100002976X
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Combines years of experience and preparation for certification into a single resource Written to serve as a useful reference tool for the experienced practicing safety preofessional, as well as a study guide for university students and those preparing for the certified Safety Professional exam Addresses major topics of the safety and health profession Includes a directory of resources such as safety and health associations, and state and federal agency contact information Offers the latest version of the BCSP exampination reference sheets

Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide

Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide
Author: W. David Yates
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 683
Release: 2017-12-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1351231391
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While there are numerous technical resources available, often you have to search through a plethora of them to find the information you use on a daily basis. And maintaining a library suitable for a comprehensive practice can become quite costly. The new edition of a bestseller, Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide, Second Edition provides a single-source reference that contains all the information required to handle the day-to-day tasks of a practicing industrial hygienist. New Chapters in the Second Edition cover: Behavior-based safety programs Safety auditing procedures and techniques Environmental management Measuring health and safety performance OSHA’s laboratory safety standard Process safety management standard BCSPs Code of Ethics The book provides a quick desk reference as well as a resource for preparations for the Associate Safety Professional (ASP), Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Occupational Health and Safety Technologist (OHST), and the Construction Health and Safety Technologist (CHST) examinations. A collection of information drawn from textbooks, journals, and the author’s more than 25 years of experience, the reference provides, as the title implies, not just a study guide but a reference that has staying power on your library shelf.

Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide, Third Edition

Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide, Third Edition
Author: W. David Yates
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 903
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1000029786
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This new edition serves both as a reference guide for the experienced professional and as a preparation source for those desiring certifications. It’s an invaluable resource and a must-have addition to every safety professional’s library. Safety Professional’s Reference and Study Guide, Third Edition, is written to serve as a useful reference tool for the experienced practicing safety professional, as well as a study guide for university students and those preparing for the Certified Safety Professional examination. It addresses major topics of the safety and health profession and includes the latest version of the Board of Certified Safety Professional (BCSP) reference sheet, a directory of resources and associations, as well as state and federal agency contact information. Additionally, this new edition offers new chapters and resources that will delight every reader. This book aids the prospective examination candidate and the practicing safety professional, by showing them, step-by-step, how to solve each question/formula listed on the BCSP examination and provide examples on how and when to utilize them.

CSP Comprehensive Practice Exam Secrets Study Guide

CSP Comprehensive Practice Exam Secrets Study Guide
Author: CSP Exam Secrets Test Prep
Publisher: Mometrix Secrets Study Guides
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-04-12
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 9781609715816
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***Includes Practice Test Questions*** CSP Comprehensive Practice Exam Secrets helps you ace the Certified Safety Professional Exam, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive CSP Comprehensive Practice Exam Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ever imagined. CSP Comprehensive Practice Exam Secrets includes: The 5 Secret Keys to CSP Exam Success: Time is Your Greatest Enemy, Guessing is Not Guesswork, Practice Smarter, Not Harder, Prepare, Don't Procrastinate, Test Yourself; A comprehensive General Strategy review including: Make Predictions, Answer the Question, Benchmark, Valid Information, Avoid Fact Traps, Milk the Question, The Trap of Familiarity, Eliminate Answers, Tough Questions, Brainstorm, Read Carefully, Face Value, Prefixes, Hedge Phrases, Switchback Words, New Information, Time Management, Contextual Clues, Don't Panic, Pace Yourself, Answer Selection, Check Your Work, Beware of Directly Quoted Answers, Slang, Extreme Statements, Answer Choice Families; Comprehensive sections including: Hazardous Materials Spill, Storage of Hazardous Materials, NHTSA, Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA), Heinrich's Pyramid Theory, William Haddon's Energy Theory, Safety Audit, Classes of Hazards, United States Code (USC), Department of Agriculture, NIST, Department of Health and Human Services, NIOSH, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Environmental Problems, Product Life Cycle, Fault Tree Analysis, Ventilation, Combustible Liquids, Tripping Hazards, Sound, Facility Development Process, Scattergram, Spearman Correlation Coefficient, Multiple Factor Theory, Privity, Risk, Training and Procedures, and much more...

Safety and Health for Engineers

Safety and Health for Engineers
Author: Roger L. Brauer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 766
Release: 2006-05-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0471750921
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The essential guide to blending safety and health with economical engineering Over time, the role of the engineer has evolved into a complex combination of duties and responsibilities. Modern engineers are required not only to create products and environments, but to make them safe and economical as well. Safety and Health for Engineers, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide that helps engineers reconcile safety and economic concerns using the latest cost-effective methods of ensuring safety in all facets of their work. It addresses the fundamentals of safety, legal aspects, hazard recognition, the human element of safety, and techniques for managing safety in engineering decisions. Like its successful predecessor, this Second Edition contains a broad range of topics and examples, detailed references to information and standards, real-world application exercises, and a significant bibliography of books for each chapter. Inside this indispensable resource, you'll find: * The duties and legal responsibilities for which engineers are accountable * Updated safety laws and regulations and their enforcement agencies * An in-depth study of hazards and their control * A thorough discussion of human behavior, capabilities, and limitations * Key instruction on managing safety and health through risk management, safety analyses, and safety plans and programs Additionally, Safety and Health for Engineers includes the latest legal considerations, new risk analysis methods, system safety and decision-making tools, and today's concepts and methods in ergonomic design. It also contains revised reference figures and tables, OSHA permissible exposure limits, and updated examples and exercises taken from real cases that challenged engineering designs. Written for engineers, plant managers, safety professionals, and students, Safety and Health for Engineers, Second Edition provides the information and tools you need to unite health and safety with economical engineering for safer technological solutions.

CSP Exam Essential Practice Simply and Thoroughly Explained

CSP Exam Essential Practice Simply and Thoroughly Explained
Author: Lorenzo Cena
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2020-08-20
Genre:
ISBN:
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"The CSP Exam - Essential Practice by Farcas, Hammond, and Cena is, as the name implies, an essential set of questions in Occupational Safety. This book is well laid out in 19 sections. It draws the reader in, which certainly assists with their increased retention of the amount of material that has to be covered. The questions are well introduced with a short narrative before the introduction of the pertinent equations and solution to the over 600 example essential questions. The book serves not only as a formidable preparation for the CIH exam but a good review of basic principles, a reference for many of the day-to-day technical issues confronting the practicing worker's safety and a guide for raising awareness of potential problems for which alert action is required. The authors bring a breadth of experience and insight into the issues handled in the text. They bring context to the basic principles to be highlighted by the examples of the questions and their solutions. CSP Exam - Essential Practice should be a must-have text for everyone in the field."Michael McCawley, Ph.D., West Virginia University.

Essential Oil Safety

Essential Oil Safety
Author: Robert Tisserand
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 795
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0702054348
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The second edition of this book is virtually a new book. It is the only comprehensive text on the safety of essential oils and the first review of essential oil/drug interactions and provides detailed essential oil constituent data not found in any other text. Much of the existing text has been re-written, and 80% of the text is completely new. There are 400 comprehensive essential oil profiles and almost 4000 references. There are new chapters on the respiratory system, the cardivascular system, the urinary system, the digestive system and the nervous system. For each essential oil there is a full breakdown of constituents, and a clear categorization of hazards and risks, with recommended maximum doses and concentrations. There are also 206 Constituent Profiles. There is considerable discussion of carcinogens, the human relevance of some of the animal data, the validity of treating an essential oil as if it was a single chemical, and the arbitary nature of uncertainty factors. There is a critque of current regulations. The only comprehensive text on the safety of essential oils The first review of essential oil/drug interactions Detailed essential oil constituent data not found in any other text Essential oil safety guidelines 400 essential oil profiles Five new chapters 305 new essential oil profiles, including Cedarwood, Clary sage, Lavender, Rose, Sandalwood, Tea tree 79 new constituent profiles Five new chapters: the respiratory system, the cardiovascular system, the urinary system, the digestive system, the nervous system. Significantly expanded text

Advanced Safety Management

Advanced Safety Management
Author: Fred A. Manuele
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119605415
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Establishes sound safety management principles and focuses on the revised Z10.0 safety standard, the new 45001 safety standard, and serious injury prevention Filled with updated chapters and information throughout, this book covers the provisions of ANSI/ASSP Z10.0-2019, the American standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems. It expands in detail on the principles for advanced safety management, the content of the revised Z10.0 standard, and the newly adopted international standard, ISO 45001. It also emphasizes the need to reduce the occurrence of serious injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. Advanced Safety Management: Focusing on Z10.0, 45001 and Serious Injury Prevention, Third Edition expands on the material in previous editions and includes several new chapters emphasizing culture, systems design, and incident investigations. Beginning with an overview of ANSI/ASSP Z10.0-2019 and ANSI/ASSP/ISO 45001-2018, it goes on to offer chapters on: Essentials for the Practice of Safety; Human Error Avoidance; Hazards Analyses and Risk Assessments; Three- and Four-Dimensional Risk Scoring Systems; Safety Design Reviews; The Procurement Process; Audit Requirements; The Management Oversight and Risk Tree (MORT); and more. Expands in detail on the principles for advanced safety management, the content of the revised ANSI/ASSP Z10.0. standard and the newly adopted international standard, ISO 45001 New chapters cover the Significance of An Organization's Culture; Fundamental Concepts; and Systems/Macro Thinking Places emphasis on the more prominent risk-based approach in the practice of safety Provides methods to align safety, operational, and financial goals, along with quality and environmental standards Explains the concepts of risk reduction, waste reduction, environmental impact deduction, and Prevention through Design (PtD) Advanced Safety Management is an important book for safety professionals, industrial hygienist, plant managers, OSHA and EPA advocates, students majoring in safety or industrial hygiene, and union leaders.

Workplace Safety and Health

Workplace Safety and Health
Author: Thomas D. Schneid
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2014-05-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1439874115
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Are the tried and true safety practices still effective in the changing workplace? Is there a better way of safeguarding employees from accidents and injuries? In short, why do you perform the safety activities that you do on a daily basis and do they produce the results necessary to keep your safety program and your company competitive in the global market? Answering these questions and more, Workplace Safety and Health: Assessing Current Practices and Promoting Change in the Profession analyzes the current practices and identifies emerging issues and challenges in the safety and health profession. We Need a Game Changer ... A New Way of Achieving a Safe and Healthful Workplace Safety pioneer and educator Thomas Schneid makes a strong case that mandatory compliance with OSHA regulations is only the first step in a safety program. And that, due to globalization and the current emphasis on sustainability, the requirements of the safety profession have changed. He explores new sources of information and guidance for addressing the new and emerging issues created by the current economic situation, globalization, and the changing workplace. He also identifies and analyzes emerging ethical issues within the safety and health profession, then suggests potential solutions. Schneid then examines the basic assumptions and challenges you to assess and evaluate your activities in search of a better and more effective way of achieving the results necessary to be competitive in today’s workplace. Taking a provocative look at the current issues facing the safety profession, he shows you how to view safety activities and actions from a different perspective and see the real impact they have on the lives of others. He gives you the tools you need to go beyond OSHA compliance and develop safety programs that will be effective in the global workplace and create and maintain a safe workplace that eliminates all injuries and illnesses.