Occupational Safety Management and Engineering (5e)

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.

• Two chapters have been added—Chapter 18, Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders and Chapter 26, Confined Space Entry.

  • Provide managers and safety professionals with basic and essential information on these hot topics. Ex.___

• 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.

  • Gives the reader basic management and engineering knowledge on these varied topics. Ex.___

• 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.

• and updated data and statistics.

  • Gives the manager and engineer a broad basis that is essential to be effective. Ex.___

• 54 references have been added—New regulations, other texts, journal articles, and various other publications are cited.

  • Provide sources for further reading on the additional or modified material of this edition. Ex.___

• NEW - Two chapters have been added—Chapter 18, Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders and Chapter 26, Confined Space Entry.

  • Provide managers and safety professionals with basic and essential information on these hot topics. Ex.___

• 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.

  • Gives the reader basic management and engineering knowledge on these varied topics. Ex.___

• 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. Ex.___

• NEW - 54 references have been added—New regulations, other texts, journal articles, and various other publications are cited.

  • Provide sources for further reading on the additional or modified material of this edition. Ex.___