Publisher's Synopsis
For courses in industrial safety. This classic text offers a practical, contemporary approach to accident prevention-based on legal, management, and technical aspects of the application of system safety engineering to industrial safety. *NEW - Two chapters have been added - Chapter 18, Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders and Chapter 26, Confined Space Entry. *NEW - Other chapters have been revised to include current topics such as: Software safety analysis, workplace violence, process safety management, nuclear waste, behavior-based safety, and various legal issues. *NEW - Other chapter contents have been revised to include new information regarding:-Workers compensation and workers compensation fraud.-Fault tree analysis.-Hearing protection, environmental protection, and fire protection.-The aging workforce, workers with disabilities.-Bloodborne pathogens.-Ergonomics.-OSHA violation policy.-Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.-System safety analysis.-Wireless radiation hazards. *NEW and updated data and statistics. - Gives the manager and engineer a broad basis that is essential to be effective.;*NEW - 54 references have been added - New regulations, other texts, journal articles, and various other publications are cited.
