Safety and Health for Engineers

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John Wiley & Sons, May 16, 2016 - Technology & Engineering - 608 pages
Safety and Health for Engineers, 3rd Edition, addresses the fundamentals of safety, legal aspects, hazard recognition and control, and techniques for managing safety decisions, as well as:
  • Completely revises and updates all 38 chapters in the book
  • New edition adds more than 110 stories and cases from practice to illustrate various topics or issues
  • New topics on adapting to new safety concerns that arise from technology innovations; convergence of safety, health and environmental departments in many organizations; the concept of prevention through design; and emphasis on safety management systems and risk management and analysis
  • Includes learning exercises and computational examples based on real world situations along with in-depth references for each chapter
  • Includes a detailed solutions manual for academic adopters
  • Covers the primary topics included in certification exams for professional safety, such as CSP/ASP
 

Selected pages

Contents

1
53
CHAPTER 1
63
THE IMPORTANCE OF SAFETY AND HEALTH
87
SAFETY AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS
257
PRESSURE
275
CHAPTER 20
286
STANDARDS AND AGENCIES
307
CHAPTER 5
316
HAZARDS AND THEIR CONTROL
384
CHAPTER 29
412
TOOLS AND MACHINES
435
PROCEDURES RULES AND TRAINING
449
CHAPTER 14
506
SYSTEM SAFETY
520
ERGONOMICS
537
ERGONOMICS DATA
568

CHEMICALS
336
VENTILATION
357
RECORD KEEPING AND REPORTING
372
INDEX
577
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About the author (2016)

Roger L. Brauer Ph.D. was the first Recipient of the Roger Brauer Lifetime Achievement Award from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Safety Engineers and 68th Inductee into the Safety and Health Hall of Fame International. Dr. Brauer was an adjunct professor of safety engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 20 years and a Principal Investigator at the US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois, for 20 years. He was also Executive Director of the Board of Certified Safety Professionals for 15 years.

Bibliographic information

TitleSafety and Health for Engineers
AuthorRoger L. Brauer
Edition3, reprint
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2016
ISBN1118959450, 9781118959459
Length608 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Science / Chemistry / General
Technology & Engineering / Industrial Health & Safety
  
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