Law & Mental Health Professionals: Massachusetts

Law & Mental Health Professionals: Massachusetts Review

Law forms of business practice; insurance reimbursements and deductions for services; privacy of professional information; practice laws related to families, juveniles, civil matters, and criminal matters; and limitations on and liability for practice. The author presents and integrates information from the Massachusetts Constitution, state statutes, regulations of administrative agencies, appellate court decisions, and the Massachusetts Supreme Court to complete this volume. The laws taken from these sources are expressed with minimal legal jargon, making this reference maximally accessible to those outside of the legal profession.

Process Technology: Safety, Health, and Environment

Process Technology: Safety, Health, and Environment Review

A full range of safety, health and environmental issues that relate to the process industry are thoroughly covered in this newly updated text. Process Technology: Safety, Health and Environment, 3rd edition includes new material such as responding to the use of weapons of mass destruction, hurricanes, tornados, and other natural disasters along with a comprehensive discussion on conducting a job hazard analysis. New safety problems, line-drawings, study/review questions and instructor directed applications that enhance learning and retention of new text material while integrating safety, science and theory with process equipment and systems. The addition of a thorough review of hazards associated with operating systems common to the chemical industry will make this book an invaluable resource.

Patient Safety

Patient Safety Review

When you are ready to implement measures to improve patient safety, this is the book to consult. Charles Vincent, one of the world's pioneers in patient safety, discusses each and every aspect clearly and compellingly. He reviews the evidence of risks and harms to patients, and he provides practical guidance on implementing safer practices in health care.

The second edition puts greater emphasis on this practical side. Examples of team based initiatives show how patient safety can be improved by changing practices, both cultural and technological, throughout whole organisations. Not only does this benefit patients; it also impacts positively on health care delivery, with consequent savings in the economy.

Patient Safety has been praised as a gateway to understanding the subject. This second edition is more than that – it is a revelation of the pervading influence of health care errors, and a guide to how these can be overcome.

REVIEWS:

"... The beauty of this book is that it describes the complexity of patient safety in a simple coherent way and captures the breadth of issues that encompass this fascinating field.  The author provides numerous ways in which the reader can take this subject further with links to the international world of patient safety and evidence based research... One of the most difficult aspects of patient safety is that of implementation of safer practices and sustained change.  Charles Vincent, through this book, provides all who read it clear examples to help with these challenges" From a review in Hospital Medicine by Dr Suzette Woodward, Director of Patient Safety.

Access 'Essentials of Patient Safety – Free Online Introduction': www.wiley.com/go/vincent/patientsafety/essentials

Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide

Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide Review

While journals provide up-to-the minute information and textbooks prepare you for certification, maintaining a library suitable for a comprehensive practice can become quite costly. A collection of information drawn from textbooks, journals, and the author’s 25 years of experience, Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide provides, as the title implies, not just a study guide but a reference that has staying power on your library shelf. A single source for technical information, the book provides:

• A "quick desk reference" for the experienced, practicing safety professional in comprehensive or specialized practice
• A useful resource to supplement more in-depth textbooks for students
• A primary study resource for those individuals preparing to take the Associate Safety Professional (ASP), Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Occupational Health and Safety Technologist (OHST), and the Construction Health and Safety Technologist (CHST) examination

The bookcovers topics such as math review, ventilation, noise, gases and particulates, radiation, toxicology, industrial hygiene, biological hazards, thermal stressors, statistics, fire protection and prevention, accident investigation, mechanics, hydrostatics and hydraulics, electrical safety, engineering economy, and worker's compensation. It provides step-by-step instructions on how to solve the equations and formulas on the exam and gives examples on how and when to use them.

With roots that extend as far back as 1700 B.C., the safety profession has evolved over the centuries. Passage of legislation has highlighted the need for educated and knowledgeable professionals and changes in science and technology requires them to have a broad range of knowledge in areas such as biology, chemistry, mathematics, and chemistry. This book consolidates practical information and puts it within easy reach, saving you the time and trouble of searching through a myriad of resources to find what you need.

A Young Adult's Guide to Safety in the Digital Age

A Young Adult's Guide to Safety in the Digital Age Review

Author Jeff Sechler provides a detailed guide for young people (14 to 22) and their parents about the risks of participating in the digital world that surrounds us. Each topic is covered thoroughly, in plain easy-to-understand language. Topics covered in the book include:

Part I - Personal Safety Risks
Chapter 1: Sexual and Online Predators
Chapter 2: Cyber-bullying and Cyber-harassment
Chapter 3: Cell Phone Texting and Sexting
Chapter 4: Internet Addictions

Part II - Personal Property Risks
Chapter 5: Identity Theft
Chapter 6: Online Scams
Chapter 7: Viruses and Spyware

Part III - Professional Risks
Chapter 8: College admissions, Job hunting and online reputation Chapter 9: Copyright and Plagiarism

This book is a must read for anyone relatively new to the Internet, or just entering adulthood. Hopefully, by increasing awareness, young people will avoid many of the dangers lurking in the digital world - from potential financial, physical or psycholological harm to crimes of property.

Occupational Health and Safety in Construction Project Management

Occupational Health and Safety in Construction Project Management Review

With the increase in legislation and the drive for ever-greater efficiency and accountability, health and safety in construction is becoming an increasingly important subject. This book covers the essential issues that apply specifically to construction projects, including the nature and causes of occupational injury or illness, project organisation and OHS, OHS risk management, OHS legislation, the psychology of OHS, behavioural safety management, using IT to manage OHS, and OHS training.

Numerous case studies illustrate important points and refer to current successful safety management techniques, giving practical guidance to the practitioner and putting the issues into context for the student. This book will be of specific interest to clients, project managers, specialist consultants, designers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers.

Acsm's Health/Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines: American College of Sports Medicine

Acsm's Health/Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines: American College of Sports Medicine Review

Developed through the expertise of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), this book aims to establish comprehensive standards and guidelines for the quality operation of health / fitness facilities. It is a reference for facility managers in settings as diverse as workplaces, clubs, hospitals, YMCAs, YWCAs, JCCs, government, schools, hotels, and spas. The standards presented in the book are ACSM's recommendations for operational and design features that are essential to any quality health / fitness facility. The guidelines are ACSM's recommended policies and procedures for achieving optimal design and operation. Every chapter features an introduction explaining the importance of the standards and guidelines that follow. And for easy reference, every chapter is organized into these sections: facility staffing, programming, safety, design, and equipment. Health / fitness facility owners and managers and architects who follow these standards and guidelines will be able to develop facilities that provide the highest quality physical programmes and services.

Safety, Health, and Environmental Auditing: A Practical Guide

Safety, Health, and Environmental Auditing: A Practical Guide Review

Even though most organizations have extensive safety, health, and environmental protocols in place, things often go wrong. Having good quality instructions is only half the battle. An equally crucial part of a good quality process is auditing, the step that ensures compliance with the procedures. Safety, Health, and Environmental Auditing: A Practical Guide provides down to earth guidance on improving safety, health, and environmental performance, supplying a starting point for developing auditing protocols and knowing how to implement them.

In contrast to the overly-academic and uninspiring tone of many auditing books, this text gives accessible, user-friendly advice in a step-by-step manner. Based on novel auditing techniques designed to overcome common problems in the audit process, the book emphasizes accurate auditing that is representative and repeatable. It has been written in such a way that it is easy to dip into and out of the short chapters to refresh your memory prior to or during an audit. Alleviating the need to trawl through mountains of text to find useful and practical checklists, the author provides a set of audit protocols covering 60 different aspects of environmental, health, and safety management in Appendix 2 and frequently used, practical administrative checklists useful for planning and conducting the audit in Appendix 1.

The book integrates the concepts of safety, health, and environmental auditing into a common approach of loss prevention. Based on the author’s 16 years of developing and teaching EHS auditing techniques, it conveys the practical tricks of the trade in an interesting and memorable way. Not only does the book advise on the human factor elements of successful auditing, but it also provides a detailed methodology, both on paper and in simple-to-use software, that shows organizations how to conduct their own audits in an effective manner.

Safety, Nutrition and Health in Early Education

Safety, Nutrition and Health in Early Education Review

SAFETY, NUTRITION, AND HEALTH IN EARLY EDUCATION, Fifth Edition, prepares readers for a career in early childhood education through a combination of basic information and theory, practical applications, and resources. Emphasizing the realities of working with children from diverse backgrounds, the book covers four major subject areas: safety, nutrition, health, and wellness. This extensively updated and revised fifth edition--now written to NAEYC, DAP, and AAP/APHA standards guidelines--includes more material on wellness, the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010, groundbreaking research on fast food from Yale University, new information on "green" cleaning and the Go Green Rating Scale for Early Childhood Settings, and information on bed bugs. New Reality Check boxes take a closer look at current topics, such as developing brain research, rating elementary school lunches, school gardens, and pandemic outbreaks. Suggestions throughout the text offer practical guidance for working with children with disabilities and special needs.

Safety Metrics: Tools and Techniques for Measuring Safety Performance

Safety Metrics: Tools and Techniques for Measuring Safety Performance Review

This practical guide--and popular reference--helps you evaluate the efficiency of your company's current safety and health processes and make fact-based decisions that continually improve overall performance. Newly updated, this edition now also shows you how to incorporate safety management system components into your safety performance program and provides you with additional techniques for analyzing safety performance data.

Written for safety professionals with limited exposure to statistics and safety-performance-measurement strategies, this comprehensive book shows you how to assess trends, inconsistencies, data, safety climates, and training in your workplace so you can identify areas that need corrective actions before an accident or injury occurs. To help you develop an effective safety metrics program, the author includes both an overview of safety metrics, data collection, and analysis and a set of detailed procedures for collecting data, analyzing it, and presenting it.

You'll examine a comprehensive collection of tools and techniques that includes run charts and control charts, trending and forecasting, benchmarking, insurance rating systems, performance indices, the Baldrige Model, and six sigma. In addition, you'll find exercises and questions in each chapter that allow you to practice and review what you've learned. All answers are provided in an appendix.

Techniques and tools discussed in this book include descriptive and inferential statistics, cause and effect analyses, measures of variability, and probability. Safety metric program development, implementation, and evaluation techniques are presented as well.

Mine Health and Safety Management

Mine Health and Safety Management Review

Mine Health and Safety Management presents aspects of management, leadership, regulation, and compliance that pertain to mining health and safety. It focuses on instilling a safety culture and fostering the ability to recognize and manage health and safety responsibilities and requirements. It details effective health and safety management systems and concentrates on safety and health hazard anticipation, identification, evaluation, and control. The book is intended for practicing engineers and supervisors, health and safety professionals, the research community, as well as undergraduate and graduate students in the minerals industry.

Developing Safety Training Programs: Preventing Accidents and Improving Worker Performance through Quality Training (Industrial Health & Safety)

Developing Safety Training Programs: Preventing Accidents and Improving Worker Performance through Quality Training (Industrial Health & Safety) Review

Developing Safety Training Programs teaches safety training from the perspective of a safety professional. It is also the first book to incorporate the concept of Job Safety Analysis as a foundation concept. Students will get a thorough understanding of the content of safety training programs, how to select the best pre-developed training aids, and how to write original lesson plans, hands-on practicals, and other instructional material.

Health and Safety in Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective (J-B SIOP Frontiers Series)

Health and Safety in Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective (J-B SIOP Frontiers Series) Review

Health has often been defined as the absence of illness and as the state of well-being. This definition, however, actually constitutes two different criteria: the absence of illness and the presence of health. For example, a person may not have any signs of illness but may still have a cholesterol level that is too high. When thinking about healthy organizations, we often make the same distinction. A healthy organization, for example, is not only free from illness and doesn't harm employees but also possesses the presence of health as exemplified by its long-term adaptability and ability to thrive. This book considers this broader definition of health and safety in organizations--one that encompasses both the absence of illness as well as the presence of health--and the implications it has for industrial/organizational psychology and human resources.

A distinguished group of contributors provides a review and integration of different lines of research focusing on health and safety in organizations, including a broad array of topics ranging from the role of individual differences and training to human resource management strategy. They explore cross-level theoretical linkages between aspects of health and safety at the individual, group, and organizational level. These discussions examine the linkages between individual health and certain aspects of the overall health of the organization, as well as how certain aspects of organizations can influence individual health and well-being.

Safety Culture (Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk)

Safety Culture (Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk) Review

Facility safety is an important commercial risk and it has to be managed insists John Taylor in "Safety Culture". Following an accident, the lack of a 'good' safety management system, compounded by a 'poor' safety culture, is a charge often laid on organisations. Accidents can take up to thirty percentage points off annual profits and, often, failure to manage safety has a much larger social cost that can involve fatalities or serious injury to members of the workforce and public. This has been starkly demonstrated in the railway industry, the international atomic energy industry, and through events in the oil exploration and refinery industry. In business terms, the ultimate cost can be receivership. "Safety Culture" highlights examples ranging from the loss of the Titanic, to Bhopal, and the Tokaimura criticality event. In it Dr. Taylor argues that to minimise risks, any hazardous facility requires robustly engineered safety systems, an effective management system and a developed organisational safety culture. Safety culture is a complex social/scientific concept and Dr. Taylor demystifies it with reference to theory normally associated with mainstream business development and change processes. Sections of the book deal with using safety culture theory as a predictive model, the assessment of safety culture, and how to influence culture change to produce the desired behaviours. This is a practically focused book from an author with vast experience at the top level of high hazard industries, he brings together current academic thinking on the concept of safety culture and provides authoritative practical guidance for operational executives, managers and for students in science, safety technology and engineering disciplines.

Consumer Health and Safety Activities: Just for the Health of It! Unit 1 (Health Curriculum Activities Library)

Consumer Health and Safety Activities: Just for the Health of It! Unit 1 (Health Curriculum Activities Library) Review

This outstanding six-unit health series is an unmatched tool for teaching and reinforcing basic health concepts and skills. Students in grades 7-12 will enjoy the stimulating, ready-to-use games, puzzles, worksheets, surveys, checklists, debates, skits, and much more. Each unit includes 90 reproducible activities, a teacher's guide, and full answer keys.

Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety

Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety Review

Error Reduction in Health Care

Completely revised and updated, this second edition of Error Reduction in Health Care offers a step-by-step guide for implementing the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine to reduce the frequency of errors in health care services and to mitigate the impact of errors when they do occur.

With contributions from noted leaders in health safety, Error Reduction in Health Care provides information on analyzing accidents and shows how systematic methods can be used to understand hazards before accidents occur. In the chapters, authors explore how to prioritize risks to accurately focus efforts in a systems redesign, including performance measures and human factors.

This expanded edition covers contemporary material on innovative patient safety topics such as applying Lean principles to reduce mistakes, opportunity analysis, deductive adverse event investigation, improving safety through collaboration with patients and families, using technology for patient safety improvements, medication safety, and high reliability organizations.

The Editor

Safety, Health, and Environmental Concepts for the Process Industry

Safety, Health, and Environmental Concepts for the Process Industry Review

Safety, Health, and Environmental Concepts for the Process Industry covers the multitude of safety and regulatory issues that every worker in the chemical processing industry should be familiar with. The basic concepts of rapidly changing and often challenging topics like OSHA regulations are covered in easy to understand language. Each chapter includes learning objectives, a list of the key terms in that chapter and their definitions, chapter summary, and review questions. Several appendices include reprints of important OSHA regulations