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The CoGDEM Guide to Gas Detection
Industrial gas detectors form an important part of safety systems designed to protect users from the harmful effects of flammable, toxic or asphyxiant gases. These gases can cause explosions, damage health or deplete the oxygen content of the air. Consequently, accurate gas detection is vital for protecting human life as well as process plant and the ...
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Ensuring Safe Drinking Water: Learning from Frontline Experience with Contamination
Safe drinking water is essential to human life. Ensuring Safe Drinking Water: Learning From Frontline Experience with Contamination provides those who carry responsibility for ensuring safe drinking water an opportunity to learn from the experiences of others. This book presents 21 case studies—10 waterborne disease outbreaks, 7 cases of severe chemical contamination, and 4 close calls—written ...
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Fire Protection: Systems and Response
The modern definition of firefighter no longer means “putting the wet stuff on the red stuff.” Emergency responders answer incidents ranging from fire alarm activations to elevator rescues and medical emergencies more often than full-blown fires. Consequently, responders increasingly interface with a wide array of building systems. Underscoring the changing role of firefighters, Fire Protection: ...
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Handbook of Facility Assessment
This practical guide is designed for facility and maintenance managers who are facing "repair or replace" decisions for their buildings. Filled with useful information and resources to aid in the decision process, this hands-on reference shows readers how to accurately rate the condition of existing equipment and components, effectively assess their options, and avoid making costly mistakes. ...
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Safety Management: A Qualitative Systems Approach
For the reduction of accidents it is necessary to deal with systems factors in which both technical and human-factors elements play an equal and complementary role. However, many of the existing techniques in ergonomics and risk management concentrate on plant/technical issues and downplay human factors and "subjectivity." The present text describes a body of theory and data that addresses this ...
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ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems: A Complete Implementation Guide
Implement an effective and efficient ISO 14001 environmental management system (EMS) with this up-to-date Guide to ensure environmental compliance and improve your organization's overall environmental performance. Written by trained ISO 14001 assessors, this Guide includes a chapter for each of the 17 clauses of the ISO 14001 EMS Standard. The step-by-step process discusses the specific ...
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18001 Health and Safety Management Systems: A Complete Guide to OSHAS and VPP Implementation
Companies can reap considerable benefits from developing an efficient health and safety management system certified to OHSAS 18001. This system can make the management of health and safety more effective by translating risk assessments into action plans to improve your organization’s overall health and safety performance, and ensure compliance to the required standards. This Guide, ...
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OSHA´s Industrial Ergonomics
• You can put powerful safety messages in the hands of your employees … instantly … with this ingenious on-the-spot safety system. • Each safety topic is a mini-poster in full color--ready to be handed out in a moment's notice. Your Safety Tear-Offs package comes with 10 topics, each one in full-color pad format. You simply tear off the safety page for fast and effective training. • ...
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Safety Meeting Repros
• This safety training system gives you over 50 safety training lesson plans on OSHA-required safety topics. You simply choose the topic, make the number of copies you need, and hold your training session. • You can rely on the handouts to clearly demonstrate each safety principle. • Easy-to-use safety training program requires no prior training experience. Safety Meeting Repros comes ...
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Health, Safety and Environmental Management Systems Auditing: Design Fundamentals and Application
This annually-updated looseleaf format textbook, co-authored by our President, Paul MacLean, is one of only a few comprehensive manuals on the practice of HSE systems auditing. The three authors bring a diverse set of skills to its pages, providing interesting reading on why and how audits can take place, the benefits, the perceptions and the pitfalls. It includes a rich set of example tools to ...
By EEM Inc.
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Safety Tear-Offs
• You can put powerful safety messages in the hands of your employees … instantly … with this ingenious on-the-spot safety system. • Each safety topic is a mini-poster in full color--ready to be handed out in a moment's notice. Your Safety Tear-Offs package comes with 10 topics, each one in full-color pad format. You simply tear off the safety page for fast and effective training. • ...
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Oil Spills First Principles
Marine oil spills are no longer considered unavoidable 'accidents' resulting from adverse environmental conditions or functions of catastrophic events. More than 80% of all spills are the result of 'human error'. The focus of the current legal, regulatory, and convention framework affecting the transportation of oil by ship reflects a recent change in public attitude, in which there is an ...
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Accident/Incident Prevention Techniques
This A-to-Z, hands-on guidebook addresses the responsibilities, principles, tools and techniques involved in accident investigation and loss control. It blends theory and applications and takes the reader from investigative planning and preparation through the various methods and equipment used, all the way to system safety applications. It covers a myriad of accident prevention techniques, which ...
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Accident/Incident Prevention Techniques
This A-to-Z, hands-on guidebook addresses the responsibilities, principles, tools and techniques involved in accident investigation and loss control. It blends theory and applications and takes the reader from investigative planning and preparation through the various methods and equipment used, all the way to system safety applications. It covers a myriad of accident prevention techniques, which ...
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Pesticide Fomulations and Application Systems, 20th Volume
15 papers address six areas: Regulatory Issues increasingly impact the formulation chemist's job. Papers address how implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) is proceeding and describe cooperative efforts between CPDA and EPA regarding the use of "inerts" in pesticide applications. Application and Spray Drift papers cover water based application and droplet ...
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Flammability and Sensitivity of Materials in Oxygen-Enriched Atmospheres: 8th Volume
STP 1319 features cutting edge information on oxygen compatibility, safe systems designs, and modeling metallic and non metallic ignition and combustion processes. In addition to a major key note address on the need for safety codes in oxygen system piping, 34 comprehensive papers cover the following key areas: Failure Analysis and Safety-- papers highlight the importance of safety in oxygen ...
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Flammability and Sensitivity of Materials in Oxygen-Enriched Atmospheres, 5th Volume
Important resource on the proper, safe use of materials in oxygen-enriched environments. 34 papers provide a previously unavailable reference of oxygen-system design concepts and practices. A keynote paper by Dr. Irvin Glassman disucsses the combustion fundamentals of low-volatility materials in oxygen-enriched environments. 6 sections follow: Development and Evaluation of Test Methods ...
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New Concepts for Coating Protection of Steel Structures
The papers in STP 841 are divided into two groups: surface technology concepts and applied coating systems and safety practices. This book includes discussion of high performance coatings that have been developed to replace alkyds and oil-based ...
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Mine Safety
The high number of fatal accidents in the mining industry makes mine safety an important issue throughout the world. The risks to life are widespread, ranging from dust explosions and the collapse of mine stopes to flooding and general mechanical errors. Mine Safety combines detailed information on safety in mining with methods and mathematics that can be used to preserve human life. By ...
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Offshore Risk Assessment
Offshore Risk Assessment was the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. Risk assessment techniques have been used for some years in the offshore oil and gas industry, and their use is set to expand increasingly as the industry moves into new areas and faces new challenges in older regions. This updated and ...
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