Constituents of Modern System-safety Thinking: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Southampton, UK, 8-10 February 2005

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Constituents of Modern System-safety Thinking contains the invited papers presented at the Thirteenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Southampton, UK in February 2005. The papers included in this volume bring together topics that are of the utmost importance in current safety thinking. The core of modern safety thinking and practice is a risk-based approach, and this is not only a common thread running throughout the papers, but is also explored in two of them. Other themes considered include the safety case, safety assessment, accident investigation, and the commonality between the processes and techniques employed in safety and security engineering. Papers contain extensive industrial experience as well as recent academic research and are presented under the headings: Independent Safety Assessment, Safety and Security, Accident Investigation, Risk and its Tolerability, Achieving and Arguing the Safety of Modular Systems, and Technologies for Dependability.

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Law Without Enforcement: Integrating Mental Health and Justice

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Until recently, law relating to mental disorder and to the mentally disorded has rarely been the subject of such extensive and heated debate. This book explores and reflects upon this debate. So far the debate's focus has been on the tension between public protection and individual civil rights, since much of its impetus has derived from notorious homicides in the community and been directed towards calls for a community treatment order. The debate encapsulated here is more comprehensive, going to the heart of the nature of mental illness and its impacts on legal capacity, juxtaposing constructs which arise out of profoundly differing disciplines. The book concludes that the contribution of current mental health legislation is both marginal and it seeks to set an agenda for radical law reform by recognizing that asking questions may, at this stage, be more valuable than providing hasty answers. Many of the chapters deal with the recent Bournewood decision in the House of Lords.

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Environmental Awareness (Gower Health and Safety Workbook) (Gower Health and Safety Workbook) (Health & Safety Workbooks)

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One in a series of ten health and safety workbooks, this title covers understanding VDU regulations; safe working with VDUs; posture, equipment and lighting; learning a safety-first attitude; and includes a learning review.

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Identifying and Prioritizing Emerging Safety Issues in the Water Industry (Awwarf Report S.)

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Water supply systems around the world are subject to the effects of work-related accidents and environmental health-related illnesses. Some organizations have been deeply affected by fatal incidents. Even routine injuries and illnesses affecting all organizations can result in lost productivity, increased worker's compensation cost, and poor employee morale. Although a number of organizations are interested in preventing on-the-job injuries and illness, none focus on the water industry. The objectives of this project were to: (1) enhance understanding of the type and frequency of injuries that occur in the water industry and identify divisions and job activities that have higher work-related injury and illness rates; (2) identify the most successful strategies utilities have used to improve safety programs and performance; and (3) promote more uniform injury/illness tracking, prioritize injury/illness related safety issues that warrant greater research attention, develop research project scopes, and prioritize them based upon the criticality of the needs. Current performance when compared to other utilities (i.e., electric utilities) suggests that water utility executives and industry associations such as AWWA and AwwaRF should make concerted efforts to improve health and safety performance. The top three health and safety needs in the water industry are training, management commitment, and formal written health and safety programs. Originally published by AwwaRF for its subscribers in 2003 This publication can also be purchased and downloaded via Pay Per View on Water Intelligence Online - click on the Pay Per View icon below

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Epidemiologic Research: Principles and Quantitative Methods (Industrial Health & Safety)

Epidemiologic Research: Principles and Quantitative Methods (Industrial Health & Safety) Review

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Epidemiologic Research Principles and Quantitative Methods David G. Kleinbaum, Ph.D. Lawrence L. Kupper. Ph.D. Hal Morgenstern, Ph.D.

Epidemiologic Research covers the principles and methods of planning, analysis and interpretation of epidemiologic research studies. It supplies the applied researcher with the most up-to-date methodological thought and practice. Specifically, the book focuses on quantitative (including statistical) issues arising from epidemiologic investigations, as well as on the questions of study design, measurement and validity. Epidemiologic Research emphasizes practical techniques, procedures and strategies. It presents them through a unified approach which follows the chronology of issues that arise during the investigation of an epidemic. The book’s viewpoint is multidisciplinary and equally useful to the epidemiologic researcher and to the biostatistician. Theory is supplemented by numerous examples, exercises and applications. Full solutions are given to all exercises in a separate solutions manual. Important features

• Thorough discussion of the methodology of epidemiologic research
• Stress on validity and hence on reliability
• Balanced approach, presenting the most important prevailing viewpoints
• Three chapters with applications of mathematical modeling

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• Modern Epidemiology
• Epidemiology: Beyond the Basics
• Applied Regression Analysis and Multivariable Methods (Duxbury Applied)
• Logistic Regression: A Self-Learning Text (Statistics for Biology and Health)
• Case-Control Studies: Design, Conduct, Analysis (Monographs in Epidemiology and Biostatistics)

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Miner's Rights and Mine Safety

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News accounts of miners losing their lives as a result of accidents at underground coal mines have appeared more often in recent years. The methane explosion in 2006 at West Virginia's Sago mine, in which 12 trapped miners died, shined a bright light on working conditions at the nation's coal mines. The partial collapse in 2007 at Utah's Crandall Canyon mine further drew attention to the plight of coal miners who work underground. These, among other incidents through 2007, prompted Congress to step up its legislative and oversight activities with respect to the safety and health of those who toil in the country's coal mines. This book examines the working conditions in the coal mining industry, and describes the regulatory regime of the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration.

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Falling Through the Safety Net: Insurance Status and Access to Health Care

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This book describes the history and structure of health insurance in the U.S. and relates existing patterns of insurance coverage to important variations in the use of health services and patient outcomes. The forewaord was written by Hllary Rodham Clinton.

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