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Health and Safety Pocket Book
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  • Essential information compiled into a single reference, which can otherwise only be found by consulting various sources
  • Concise tabular format making trailing through pages of text unnecessary
  • Cheap and portable – ideal for site visits

This pocket book contains a unique compilation of tables, data, checklists and a glossary for a wide range of health and safety topics. It includes:

  • the principal legal health and safety requirements for every industry
  • checklists for major hazards affecting all industries
  • safety management elements and systems
  • a glossary of the main concepts of health and safety
  • a wealth of charts with the nitty-gritty, hard to remember detail – such as the recommended air changes in ventilation and the maximum ratios of illuminance for adjacent areas
  • a list of the most important health and safety courses, publications and organisations

    The A-Z arrangement within the chapters and extensive cross-referencing makes the book easy to navigate.

    The Health and Safety Pocket Book is a compact first point of reference for practicing health and safety professionals and auditors out on site visits, managers and HR personnel with health and safety responsibilities, and employee representatives. The book will also be useful on a wide range of health and safety courses at all levels.

    • Stress at Work - Management and Prevention
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  • Jargon-free introduction to work-related stress issues, ideal for managers, HR professionals and safety reps
  • Gives practical advice on how to implement a stress management system
  • Helps employers avoid expensive court cases brought by employees or enforcement officers
    • Work-related stress and resulting sickness absence costs the UK economy about £3.7 billion every year (HSE research). In this jargon-free guide, Jeremy Stranks explains what stress is and what causes it, how people respond to stress and cope with it, how stress can be evaluated and managed and what employers’ legal responsibilities are.

    Written for managers, HR professionals and safety reps, the emphasis of this book is strongly on practical advice and solutions. The author provides simple tools to measure and assess stress and shows how to deal with a range of stress-creating workplace situations, such as bullying, harassment and violence at work. The book also details how to implement a stress management system that complies with the new HSE Management Standards to avoid civil claims and criminal sanctions by the enforcement agencies.

    Introduction To Fire Safety Management
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    Andrew Furness and Martin Muckett give an introduction to all areas of fire safety management, including the legal framework, causes and prevention of fire and explosions, fire protection measures, fire risk assessment, and fire investigation. Fire safety is not treated as an isolated area but linked into an effective health and safety management system. Introduction to Fire Safety Management has been developed for the NEBOSH Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management and is also suitable for other NVQ level 3 and 4 fire safety courses. The text is highly illustrated in full colour, easy to read and supported by checklists, report forms and record sheets. This practical approach makes the book a valuable reference for health and safety professionals, fire officers, facility managers, safety reps, managers, supervisors and HR personnel in companies, as well as fire safety engineers, architects, construction managers and emergency fire services personnel. Andrew Furness CFIOSH, GIFireE, Dip2OSH, MIIRSM, MRSH, is Managing Director of Salvus Consulting Limited who specialise in Fire Safety. He was the chairman of the NEBOSH / IOSH working party that developed the NEBOSH Fire Safety and Risk Management certificate.Martin Muckett MA, MBA, CMIOSH, MIFireE, Dip2OSH, former Principal Health and Safety Advisor to The Fire Service Inspectorate and Principal Fire Safety Officer, Martin is currently Salvus Consulting Limited?s Senior Fire Safety Trainer / Consultant.
    Paperback, 440 pages

     

    Audience
    Students on fire safety management and fire risk assessment courses as well as students on general health & safety courses. Fire officers, facility managers, safety reps, managers, supervisors, and HR personnel in companies, who have fire safety responsibilities. Health & Safety professionals. Fire safety engineers, construction managers and architects. Local Authority enforcement officers and emergency fire services personnel.

    Contents
    1. Fire safety foundations 2. Safety policy 3. Organising for safety 4. Safety culture 5. Principles of risk assessment 6. General principles of control 7. Principles of fire and explosion 8. Causes and prevention of fire 9. Fire protection in buildings 10. Safety of people in the event of a fire 11. Monitoring, auditing and reviewing fire safety systems 12. Reactive monitoring – reporting, recording and investigation 13. Environmental impact of fire 14. Fire risk assessment 15. Summary of key legal requirementsAbbreviations Index

    Health & Safety, Environment and Quality Audits - A risk-based approach
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    Auditing is an essential tool for managing compliance with essential health & safety, environmental safety and quality standards. Increasingly these three areas are audited by the same professionals to proliferating standards (e.g. OHSAS 18001 for health & safety, ISO 9000 for quality, ISO 14001 for environmental).
    This book covers all the aspects that need to be taken into account for a successful audit to recognised standards and other non-certifiable business control frameworks. The book takes a risk based approach to auditing business-critical risk areas, supported by checklists, forms and toolkits, which are also available as free downloads from the book?s companion web site. Stephen Asbury is Director of Corporate Risk Systems Limited, a Risk Management consultancy. He is a Director and Trustee of IOSH and IOSH Services Limited and has over 20 year's experience as a health, safety and environment practitioner. Peter Ashwell is Managing Director of Kingdom Management Limited,an Internal Audit training consultancy which has been servicing multinational clients worldwide for the last 16 years. He is a Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management with over 30 years experience in business.