Industrial Safety and Health Management - Hardcover

Asfahl, C.; Rieske, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0132368714 ISBN 13: 9780132368711

Publisher: Pearson, 2009

Synopsis

Industrial Safety And Health Management is ideal for senior/graduate-level courses in Industrial Safety, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Technology, and Operations Management. It is useful for industrial engineers.

 

Unique in approach, Industrial Safety and Health Management, 6th Edition combines ― in one volume ― an exploration of the time-tested concepts and techniques of safety and health management, a modern perspective on compliance with mandatory standards for workplace safety and health, and a variety of solved problems, case studies, and exercises. It provides reasons, explanations, and illustrations of the hazard mechanisms that form the underlying basis for the volumes of detailed standards for workplace safety and health.

The new edition focuses on more of the real issues future safety and health practitioners will encounter, such as dealing with enforcement, protecting workers from ergonomic hazards, and accommodating the latest advances in process technology.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Unique in approach, this piece combines ― in one volume ― an exploration of the time-tested concepts and techniques of safety and health management, a modern perspective on compliance with mandatory standards for workplace safety and health, and a variety of solved problems, case studies, and exercises. It provides reasons, explanations, and illustrations of the hazard mechanisms that form the underlying basis for the volumes of detailed standards for workplace safety and health.

FEATURES

• NEW―Splits coverage of Health and Environmental Control into two chapters:
  • Health and Toxic Substances.
  • Environmental Control and (industrial) Noise.
• NEW―Adds new exercises (for a total of approx. 640 total) and case studies.
• NEW―Discusses and draws from the new and readily available sources of information now accessible to the Safety and Health Manager ― e.g., the OSHA CD-ROM computer database, the Internet, in addition to conventional library resources.
  • Empowering the reader to readily find their own answers to questions on safety and health management.
  • Provides "Research Exercises" which requires the reader to go beyond the book for answers - to the Internet or to the OSHA CD-ROM or comprehensive conventional libraries.
• NEW―Revises and updates tables.

• Easy-to-read, informal writing style that brings the technical subject matter to life.
• Makes extensive use of diagrams and figures to clearly illustrate concepts that are confusing in government standards ― e.g., alternative guarding methods for punch presses.
• Features case studies ― e.g., recordkeeping, electrical shock hazards.
• Provides complete and accurate technical data from government standards ― e.g., on welding fumes and gases, on press safeguarding, etc.
• Contains several appendices with tables of information commonly used in professional practice.

About the Author:

David Rieske is an industrial engineer and has worked in manufacturing in the areas of production and health and safety.  During this time, he gained valuable experience in the identification and reduction/elimination of hazards through engineering applications.  David teaches at the University of Arkansas while also working in the pharmaceutical industry.

 

Dr. C. Ray Asfahl is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Engineering at University of Arkansas. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and a Certified Safety Professional. With over 35 years experience in Industrial Safety he has served as Industrial Consultant in most of the 50 states. He has served on the Standards Development Committee of the American Society of Safety Engineers. His books, in seven editions in English, are in use throughout the world. Some editions of his books have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Korean.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0132368714
• ISBN 13: 9780132368711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 576