The Second Edition shows how to initiate, develop, implement, and maintain a cost-effective computer system for gathering, analyzing, reporting, and utilizing safety data, using a personal computer (PC). Extensively revised and updated, the Second Edition contains a complete, field-tested investigation training program.....provides the latest techniques for developing a safety data system on a PC.....reveals what to look for when purchasing a database from an outside vendor....and much more.
Requiring minimal computer experience, this volume serves as a working tool for safety managers, directors, and engineers; hazard control, loss control, and risk managers; industrial hygienists; occupational physicians; plant engineers; insurance personnel; management consultants; and upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and continuing-education students of occupational safety and health.
Preface to The Second Edition
Preface to The First Edition
Introduction
Part 1 : Preparation and Analysis : Where Are You Now?
Chapter 1 : Computerization : A Better Way
Chapter 2 : The Current Reporting System : A Look at What Is Happening Now
Chapter 3 : The Company Structure
Chapter 4 : Selling Computerization to Management
Part 2 : Developing A System
Chapter 5 : How to Begin
Chapter 6 : Databases and Their Design
Chapter 7 : The Computerized Safety Data System
Chapter 8 : The Investigation System
Chapter 9 : Bringing The System on Line
Part 3 : System Introduction and Application
Chapter 10 : Introducing The System to Management
Chapter 11 : Applications : Imaginative Special Searches
Chapter 12 : Applications : Serious-Injury Source Prediction
Chapter 13 : Future Developments
Appendixes
A : The Analysis Phase
B : The Computerized Safety Data System
C : Techniques of Investigation Booklet
D : A Construction Association’s Safety Data System
E : An Oil Company’s Safety Data System
F : A Client-Based Insurance Company System
G : A Paper Company’s Safety Data System
H : Investigation Forms
I : Industrial Hygiene Applications
Index