Author: Ian Cruickshank, Stephen Cork ISBN: 0727733451 / 9780727733450 Year: 2005 Availability: Out of Stock
Over £500 million is spent on coastal and maritime construction in the UK every year. This work is particularly hazardous due to the hostile environment and uncertainty caused by the combination of ...
Author: H S Shaw, R G P Hawkins ISBN: 0727732757 / 9780727732750 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
"This is the start of an enormous change in waste – both a challenge and an opportunity"
John Burns, Waste Implementation Programme Director, DEFRA*
In 2004 the UK Government was faced wit...
Author: Dr. Simon Joyston-Bechal, Helen Grice ISBN: 0727731238 / 9780727731234 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
This new edition highlights the main health and safety duties in a convenient and readable format, and provides extensive bibliographies that identify any related legislation and approved codes of p...
Author: Pat Perry ISBN: 0727732390 / 9780727732392 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
Fire safety is one of the most important aspects of health and safety to get right as the consequences of not doing so can be catastrophic in both terms of human life and business cost.
Each chap...
Author: John Barber ISBN: 0727731181 / 9780727731180 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
All civil engineers and construction professionals concerned with the construction process have both professional and legal duties to take care, not only of their own health and safety at work, but ...
Author: Martin Barnard ISBN: 0727726013 / 9780727726018 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
'This is an essential reference book for engineers, providing comprehensive coverage of health and safety, and incorporating the latest thinking. For legal and ethical reasons engineers must commit ...
Author: Alireza Bahadori ISBN: 1482206455 / 9781482206456 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
Due to an increase in the wide-range of chemicals in petrochemical processing industries, as well as frequency of use, there has been a steady rise in flammability problems and other hazards. Hazard...
Author: Adedeji B Badiru, LeeAnn Racz ISBN: 113807733X / 9781138077331 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Despite preemptive preparations, disasters can and do occur. Whether natural disasters, catastrophic accidents, or terrorist attacks, the risk cannot be completely eliminated. A carefully prepared r...
Author: Ken Tomasin, Vic Davies ISBN: 072772519X / 9780727725196 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
This book is an essential guide for all construction industry professionals, whose duty it is to preserve the health, safety and welfare of others by effective design and management.
The authors ...
Author: Peter Robert Boyce ISBN: 1439874883 / 9781439874882 Year: 2014 Availability: Out of Stock
The availability of electric lighting has changed the lives of people the world over and lighting is a major consumer of energy, yet little has been written about the forms of lighting that can alte...
Author: Cliff Munson ISBN: 1593703236 / 9781593703233 Year: 2014 Availability: Out of Stock
Author Cliff Munson's new book, Courtroom Testimony for Emergency Responders, will help first responders prepare for court appearances in criminal trials. Capt. Munson takes readers step-by-step thr...
Author: Juan R. Pimentel ISBN: 0768012430 / 9780768012439 Year: 2006 Availability: 45-60 days
Focusing on the vehicle's most important subsystems, this book features an introduction by the editor and 40 SAE technical papers from 2001-2006.
The papers are organized in the following section...
Author: Mark Gonter, Ulrich Seiffert ISBN: 0768064376 / 9780768064377 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
Even though a number of developed countries enjoy a high level of vehicle safety, more than 1.2 million fatalities still occur each year on roadways worldwide. There remains a need to continue impro...
Author: Dr. Andrew Brown ISBN: 0768073774 / 9780768073775 Year: 2011 Availability: 45-60 days
This set includes two books, edited by Delphi’s Chief Technology Officer Dr. Andrew Brown, Jr., which explore some of the most significant challenges currently facing the automotive industry&m...
Author: Kathleen DeSantis Klinich, Matthew Reed ISBN: 0768021723 / 9780768021721 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
A detailed understanding of the size, shape, and postures of children is required to design effective restraint systems for protecting children in motor vehicle crashes. Compiled and edited by exper...
Author: Billy Goldfeder ISBN: 1593703198 / 9781593703196 Year: 2014 Availability: Out of Stock
For his first book, Chief Billy Goldfeder, a 40-year fire service veteran, solicited insights and pearls of wisdom from our country's greatest firefighters, fire officers and emergency responders.
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Author: Eric Wissner, James Petruzzi, Mark van der Feyst ISBN: 1593703228 / 9781593703226 Year: 2014 Availability: Out of Stock
Authors Mark van der Feyst, Eric Wissner and James Petruzzi wrote their new book to serve as a much-needed sole source reference for rescuing an occupant from a residential structure.
Residential...
Author: J. Kirk Russell, John Melvin ISBN: 0768080266 / 9780768080261 Year: 2013 Availability: 45-60 days
For many years, the evolution of safety improvements in motorsports was the result of a combination of science and perceived safe practices. Most safety developments were not based on rigorous labor...
Author: John D. Lee, Michael A. Regan, Trent W. Victor ISBN: 1409425851 / 9781409425854 Year: 2013 Availability: Out of Stock
It is estimated that, in the United States, around 20 percent of all Police-reported road crashes involve driver distraction as a contributing factor. This figure increases if other forms of inatten...
Author: Roger F. Wells ISBN: 0768035295 / 9780768035292 Year: 2012 Availability: 45-60 days
This book provides a historical review of safety features appearing on passenger cars that have been produced for sale in the U.S. from 1900 to the present. A main theme throughout is the impact the...
Author: Dr. Andrew Brown ISBN: 0768073804 / 9780768073805 Year: 2011 Availability: 45-60 days
This set includes two books, edited by Delphi’s Chief Technology Officer Dr. Andrew Brown, Jr., which explore some of the most significant challenges currently facing the automotive industry&m...
Author: Jeffrey A. Pike ISBN: 0768060370 / 9780768060379 Year: 2011 Availability: 45-60 days
Nearly 50,000 Americans die from brain injuries annually, with approximately half of all Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) being transportation-related. TBI is a critical and ever-evolving safety topic...
Author: Jeffrey A. Pike ISBN: 0768060362 / 9780768060362 Year: 2011 Availability: 45-60 days
Nearly 50,000 Americans die from brain injuries annually, with approximately half of all Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) being transportation-related. TBI is a critical and ever-evolving safety topic...
Author: Jeffrey A. Pike ISBN: 0768060354 / 9780768060355 Year: 2011 Availability: 45-60 days
Nearly 50,000 Americans die from brain injuries annually, with approximately half of all Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) being transportation-related. TBI is a critical and ever-evolving safety topic...
