Occupational Safety & Health Guidance Manual for Hazardous Waste Site Activities

Occupational Safety & Health Guidance Manual for Hazardous Waste Site Activities Review

In the past decade, industry, government, and the general public have become increasingly aware of the need to respond to the hazardous waste problem, which has grown steadily over the past 40 years. In 1980, Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) -- the Superfund law-to provide for "liability, compensation, cleanup, and emergency response for hazardous substances released into the
environment and the cleanup of inactive waste disposal sites."

This manual is a guidance document for managers responsible for occupational safety and health programs at inactive hazardous waste sites.

Handbook of OSHA Construction Safety and Health, Second Edition

Handbook of OSHA Construction Safety and Health, Second Edition Review

A practical guide for eliminating safety and health hazards from construction worksites, the Handbook of OSHA Construction Safety and Health addresses the occupational safety and health issues faced by those working in the construction industry. The book covers a vast range of issues including program development, safety and health program implementation, intervention and prevention of construction incidents, regulatory interpretations, understanding, and compliance, OSHA's expectations, health and safety hazards faced by those working in the construction industry, and sources of information.

Highlighting contract liability and multi-employer sites, this second edition features updates for construction regulations, construction job audit, training requirements, and OSHA regulations. It includes new record-keeping guidelines and forms with additional material on focused inspections. Containing updated contact information for the newest agencies, the text also presents a model safety and health program, examples of accident analysis and prevention approaches, sample safety and health checklists, and more than 200 illustrations.

Taking a comprehensive approach to construction safety and health, the authors address issues seldom discussed in the construction arena such as perceptions and motivation while also discussing issues gleaned from the safety and health disciplines such as the analyzing of incidents and accident prevention techniques. Including an in-depth discussion of regulations promulgated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the book lays the foundation upon which to build stronger safety and health initiatives, while intervening and preventing jobsite deaths, injuries, and illnesses.

Emergency Incident Risk Management: A Safety & Health Perspective (Industrial Health & Safety)

Emergency Incident Risk Management: A Safety & Health Perspective (Industrial Health & Safety) Review

Emergency Incident Risk Management: A Safety & Health Perspective
Jonathan D. Kipp, Murrey E. Loflin
While risk management techniques have been successfully used to reduce the potential for physical harm to the public, these proven methods, strangely enough, have not been applied to one of the most hazardous environments of all fire fighting operations. The result is that more than 100,000 injuries occur to fire fighters each year. Emergency Incident Risk Management shows fire chiefs, fire officers, safety officers, and risk managers for the first time anywhere how to develop and implement a comprehensive risk management program that can sharply reduce on-the-job fatalities, injuries, and harmful exposures while minimizing property and equipment damage. Expanding on the information presented in the National Fire Protection Association 1500 Handbook, this thorough guide covers every phase of effective risk management from assigning roles and preplanning, through all the steps in a solid risk management plan, to handling actual emergency incidents. With the help of illuminating examples, Emergency Incident Risk Management demonstrates how to:
* analyze accident, injury, and illness data
* identify and evaluate risk
* establish risk management priorities
* formulate and implement sound risk control measures
* monitor and fine-tune the risk management program
* incorporate risk management into an incident management system
* use and maintain proper personal protective equipment
Further, the book addresses federal standards that safety administrators must observe, providing crucial compliance information on OSHA s regulations covering bloodborne pathogens, confined spaces, respiratory protection, and hazardous waste operations and emergency response in addition to the NFPA standards. The book, in fact, is so complete it even covers how to utilize cost/benefit analysis to ensure effective risk management decision making. Written by a longtime certified safety professional and an experienced fire officer, Emergency Incident Risk Management should be regularly consulted by every professional who administers or operates corporate, municipal, military, or private emergency response programs.

Dangerous Places: Health, Safety, and Archaeology

Dangerous Places: Health, Safety, and Archaeology Review

Archaeological sites often seem to be idyllic, even romantic, places where scientists recover and analyze fascinating data that can inform us of past times and the past lives of our recent historical and ancient prehistoric human forebears. Too often, however, unrecognized dangers lie within: bacterial and viral infections hidden in the soil, concealed in the animals that roam through our sites, or even lying in wait in organic remains we excavate; toxic substances produced by the historical technologies we study and that continue to poison the sites where people once worked; the bodies of people who died of historical scourges that once afflicted humanity and whose excavated mortal remains may still harbor the pathogens that killed them, dormant and lying in wait for an unsuspecting and largely no-longer immune modern population. It's enough to make an archaeologist swear off fieldwork!

The truth is, however, that archaeologists need to be alerted to the dangers present in fieldwork and advised of the reasonable precautions that should be taken to insure the safest possible working environment. ^IDangerous Places^R brings together an enormous body of information regarding the threats that archaeologists face every day, and the best ways of behaving proactively to avoid or mitigate these threats.

Essentials of Public Health Law and Policy

Essentials of Public Health Law and Policy Review

As one of the newest offerings in the Jones and Bartlett Essential Public Health series, Essentials of Health Policy and Law provides students of public health with a firm foundation of the basics of American health policy and law. Given the prominent role played by policy and law in the health of all Americans, the aim of this book is to help readers understand the broad context of health policy and law, the essential policy and legal issues impacting and flowing out of the health care and public health systems, and the way health policies and laws are formulated. Think of this textbook as an extended manual introductory, concise, and straightforward to the seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, and thus as a jumping off point for discussion, reflection, research, and analysis.

Chainsaw Operator's Manual: Part 1: Chainsaw Safety, Maintenance and Cross-Cutting Techniques

Chainsaw Operator's Manual: Part 1: Chainsaw Safety, Maintenance and Cross-Cutting Techniques Review

Chainsaw Operator's Manual is an essential safety tool for chainsaw operators. It is the ultimate guide to basic chainsaw operating techniques covering safety, maintenance and cross-cutting, but not tree felling.

Detailed diagrams illustrate horizontal, vertical and boring cuts, as well as trimming and cross-cutting techniques. Safety considerations are discussed, including workplace safety, occupational hazards, kick-back and identifying dangerous trees. An explanation of the tension and compression forces in timber is also provided to help the reader understand where to begin cutting to avoid jamming the saw.

The book covers chainsaw maintenance in detail, explains all aspects of the equipment and helps the reader select the right chainsaw and personal protection equipment. Trouble-shooting charts are included to help solve operating problems.

This manual has been updated to take into account the most recent changes in nationally accredited competency standards. It is a must-have for anyone operating a chainsaw.

Features
Workplace and operator safety
Chainsaw maintenance
Basic cross-cutting techniques
Competency Standards

Integrated Management Systems Implementation Tool: A guide for organizational management systems conformant to ISO Quality, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety Standards

Integrated Management Systems Implementation Tool: A guide for organizational management systems conformant to ISO Quality, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety Standards Review

Integrated
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A guide for organizational management systems conformant to ISO Quality, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety Standards

Kids Don't Float: Water Safety (Stories for Babies, Preschoolers, Early Elementary, and Early Readers)

Kids Don't Float: Water Safety (Stories for Babies, Preschoolers, Early Elementary, and Early Readers) Review

During the summer months we hear stories of young children drowning in pools, streams, lakes, and ponds.

Helping a child to understand how important it is to wait for an adult may save their life.

Kids Don't Float introduces you and your preschooler to the fact that some things float, but kids do not. Engaging as well as fun to read, this cute little book will encourage conversation about water safety between you and your child. The colorful illustrations resemble those that may be drawn by a child within this age group, or perhaps or a little older. Through the rhyming flow of the story and the illustrations, young children will find it is easy to relate to the concepts being introduced.

Introduction to Health and Safety at Work Revision Cards

Introduction to Health and Safety at Work Revision Cards Review

When used alongside Introduction to Health and Safety at Work (ISBN 978-1-85617-668-2), these revision cards will prepare you for the two written assessments of the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health.

*Provides a succinct summary of the key points from the two taught units *The small size and spiral binding enables you to study anywhere at any time and quickly find where you left off *Written by a former Vice Chairman of NEBOSH (1999-2008)

OSHA Regulations and Guidelines: A Guide for Health Care Providers

OSHA Regulations and Guidelines: A Guide for Health Care Providers Review

This handbook provides an overview of the OSHA regulations/standards for safety in the workplace as they apply to health care sites.

Managing for World Class Safety

Managing for World Class Safety Review

Despite the extensive literature on safety, few tools have been available to help managers quantitatively assess the level of safety management and the quality of the safety practices in organizations. In his consulting practice, Dr. Jim Stewart, a former executive at DuPont, developed such a method, crafting a safety survey centering on a comprehensive questionnaire for employees at all levels, that reveals the true level of corporate commitment to safety.

Managing for World Class Safety first describes the model of safety management that underpins the questionnaire and then demonstrates how this innovative procedure illuminates critical intangibles like management commitment, the enforcement of rules, worker involvement, and injury investigation.

The central part of this book is the description of research at the University of Toronto that applies the questionnaire in comprehensive research at five of the world’s safest companies and five with very poor safety. The questionnaire polled 700 people in the ten companies, "measuring" the level of more than twenty key elements such as:

• The workers’ perception of the priority given to safety
• The belief that all injuries can be prevented
• The extent to which line management takes responsibility/accountability for safety
• How well safety rules are followed and enforced
• The frequency and quality of safety meetings
• The level of recognition to reinforce safety excellence
• In every element, the contrast between the responses from the very safe companies and those from the companies with poor safety was dramatic, clearly depicting where the former succeed and the latter fail

By developing quantitative benchmark data, Stewart reasons that it will be easier to convince reluctant management to undertake the fundamental change necessary for a "step change" in their company performance. Managing for World Class Safety promises a revolutionary new approach to workplace safety improvement for corporate leaders, safety professionals, and regulators.

Handbook of Occupational Safety and Health

Handbook of Occupational Safety and Health Review

Workplace safety and health is serious business. In work environments where the safety and health of employees is a significant issue, a major leadership challenge is to instill shared, companywide values that establish the safety, health, and well-being of each individual as a paramount concern of the business. Now in its second edition, the Handbook of Occupational Safety and Health, originally edited by Lawrence Slote, remains an essential first source for quick, practical answers on this pivotal workplace issue.

Concise chapters detail specific issues of biological, chemical, and physical hazards to workplace safety and health, and also address a broad spectrum of management concerns including training, workers' compensation, liability coverage, and regulatory matters. While adhering to the requirements set by the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) of 1971, the authors of this volume advocate a progressive approach that exceeds basic compliance with established regulations. Chapters emphasize not only worker protection through safe equipment and management supervision, but also the safety training of workers. Throughout, contributors stress the need to align safety and health concerns fully with a company's business objectives, offering insight into how these dual interests can be integrated.

With many chapters structured in an accessible "how-to" format, even those professionals inexperienced in occupational safety issues can rapidly gain a practical knowledge of the particular concerns of their industry. For launching or updating a comprehensive workplace safety program, or for assistance with confronting specific problems when they occur, the Handbook is an ideal starting point for assessing risks and initiating proactive measures to prevent accidents in any industry.

A new edition of the one-stop source for practical information on occupational safety and health.

Now expanded by more than 50 percent, this Second Edition of the Handbook of Occupational Safety and Health, originally edited by Lawrence Slote, demonstrates how to control hazards to safety and health in many types of work environments-and how to deal with injuries when they do occur. It features 30 concise chapters that enable even those not formally trained in occupational safety to get up to speed quickly, plus more than 150 helpful illustrations that complement the text.

With up-to-date contributions from occupational physicians, public health professionals, legal experts, and specialists in areas ranging from chemicals and radiation to noise exposure, this comprehensive Handbook presents a complete program of effective responses to a vast range of occupational safety and health problems. It includes:
* An overview of the field and its recent advances, with a clear explanation of managerial roles and responsibilities for safety and health
* Five sections on a variety of issues-safety evaluations, health assessment, control practices, physical hazards, and legal affairs-that make it simple to pinpoint information quickly
* How-to advice-step-by-step guidance on how to conduct an accident investigation, maintain a quality medical surveillance program, and much more
* Chapters on the prevention of specific hazards such as dermatoses, heat stress, radiation, respiratory illness,and infection
* Includes updated material based on chapters from Patty's Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, Fourth Edition

Lead in Construction

Lead in Construction Review

Pure lead (Pb) is a heavy metal at room temperature and
pressure. A basic chemical element, it can combine with various
other substances to form numerous lead compounds.

Lead has been poisoning workers for thousands of years. Lead
can damage the central nervous system, cardiovascular system,
reproductive system, hematological system, and kidneys. When
absorbed into the body in high enough doses, lead can be toxic.
In addition, workers’ lead exposure can harm their children’s
development.

Short-term (acute) overexposure–as short as days--can cause
acute encephalopathy, a condition affecting the brain that develops
quickly into seizures, coma, and death from cardiorespiratory
arrest. Short-term occupational exposures of this type are highly
unusual but not impossible.

Extended, long-term (chronic) overexposure can result in severe
damage to the central nervous system, particularly the brain. It can
also damage the blood-forming, urinary, and reproductive systems.
There is no sharp dividing line between rapidly developing acute
effects of lead and chronic effects that take longer to develop.