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Comprehensive book that teaches how to recognize a medical emergency, handle breathing and cardiac emergencies and sustain life until professional help arrives.
The NSC First Aid Quick Guide is your quick start to First Aid life-saving efforts. Pack of 10.
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The 11th edition Supervisors’ Safety Manual provides the basic information and resources all first-line supervisors and team leaders need to meet their responsibilities and duties for maintaining safety in the workplace. The text has been revised to reflect changes in organizational structure and management philosophies. This edition features four new chapters on human performance, construction safety, emergency management, and environmental management. All technical information has been reviewed, revised, and updated by experts from a variety of businesses and industries.Supervisors’ Safety Manual serves as the sourcebook for an updated Supervisors’ Safety Development Program that supports training for all supervisors responsible for safety in their organizations.”
This redesigned manual and new resource CD offer a fresh look at the proven, practical knowledge that safety and health professionals need to establish and maintain a successful ergonomics program.
Hardcover: 122 PagesPublisher: National Safety Council; 2nd Edition, (1993)Language: EnglishISBN: 978-087912-168-8Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
The Executive’s Guide to Safety: An Action Plan that Benefits Your Employees and the Bottom Line addresses all the components of a Safety Management System and explains why an effective Safety Management System is critical to the success of any organization. The Executive’s Guide will help HR professionals and all levels of management customize, implement, maintain, and improve your organization’s overall safety culture.*Click on the green arrow to the left for Table of Contents information!
Spiral-bound: 154 pagesPublisher: National Safety Council (November 2, 2009)Language: EnglishISBN: 978-0879122980Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
The Accident Prevention Manual for Business & Industry: Security Management is the industry’s most up-to-date textbook on protecting personnel, property and proprietary information. This manual addresses the major changes in security management over the last decade, including the most current threats in global and domestic terrorism, workplace violence, corporate espionage and cyber attacks.
The APM: Security Management is an essential resource for safety managers and individuals with security-related responsibilities, including human resource managers, facility managers and operations managers. This textbook is designed to prepare students for a career in security and safety management. This manual features new and updated sections on: Management of proprietary information Physical security concepts Critical incident management
Find all-new chapters, including: Management of Proprietary Information The Physical Security Survey Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Developing an Emergency Operations Plan Public-Private Partnership on Security Terrorism Preparedness Pandemic Preparedness
Hardcover: 407 pages
Publisher: National Safety Council; 2nd Edition (June 2010)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-87912-260-7
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 11”
If you're responsible for facility design, maintenance, safety and health, and/or security in your work environment, be sure to review this new edition of an important safety reference resource.
Accident Prevention Manual for Business & Industry: Environmental Management is part of a four-volume set that also includes Administration & Programs, Engineering & Technology and Security Management.
This comprehensive resource manual is written by a renowned group of safety, health and environmental experts and edited by Gary R. Krieger, MD, MPH, DABT. Newly released in March 2000, this 550-page edition is organized in three sections:
I. General Framework- Features a national and global overview of political, historical, economic, ethical, legal, legislative, and scientific environmental developments, including up-to-date perspectives on management, strategy, assessment and auditing techniques.
II. Waste Management- Explains the complex laws and techniques used to manage the treatment, storage and disposal of chemical and radioactive hazardous wastes.- Includes a review of the training requirements for hazardous waste treatment and discusses the growing importance of pollution prevention and waste minimization.
III. Special Concerns - Examines the broader issues of our external and internal environments, which ultimately affect public health.- Discusses epidemiology, risk communication and risk assessment and the regulatory and legal decisions made on the basis of these processes.- Analyzes the issues and impact of population growth, deforestation, soil depletion, acid rain, ozone depletion and global warming.- Illustrates how to develop an environmental strategy and management approach with respect to ISO standards.
Environmental Management also includes:
- Ten Case Studies in Environmental Management - A Comprehensive Environmental Resource Guide - Glossary of Acronyms - Glossary of Terms
Updates environmental issues impacting those responsible for facility design, maintenance, safety and health, and security.
Hardcover: 548 pagesPublisher: National Safety Council; 2nd edition (2000)Language: EnglishISBN-13: 978-0879122096Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.8 x 2.2 inches
This bookwas written for anyone supervising people in the global organization. The book is designed to be used as:
Each chapter discusses what supervisors can do to be effective in their work, particularly for those supervisors looking for some guidance in how to supervise people in a global organization. Three key aspects of supervisor responsibilities are addressed:
About the AuthorsMeredith Onion has 15-plus years of experience as a human resource professional in for-profit companies, with a large nonprofit association, a university and the government. She has supervised teams, in addition to training others in management development. Her most recent position was senior vice president of Deborah Snow Walsh Inc., consulting with Fortune 100 companies to bring in diverse executive leadership talent. She holds a Master of Science in Industrial Relations from Loyola University Chicago, and is a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP). She has traveled overseas to study industrial relations in Southeast Asia.
Paperback: 396 PagesPublisher: National Safety Council (2003)Language: EnglishISBN: 978-087912-219-6Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 1 inches
This 6th edition of Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene builds on four decades of excellent and dedicated work of previous contributors to one of the National Safety Council’s cornerstone textbooks. Since 1971, experts from a wide variety of subject areas have come together to make FIH an important resource for those interested in and directly responsible for the recognition, evaluation, and control of occupational hazards. This update continues in that tradition, bringing to the industrial hygienist, safety professional, and medical professional a broad discussion of workplace hazards, control procedures, government regulations, and environmental issues.
This new edition of Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene features extensively updated information in all chapters. New or completely rewritten chapters include Particulate Matter, Ionizing Radiation, Personal Protective Equipment, Environmental Health and Safety, Government Regulations, and International Developments in Occupational Safety and Health.
The 6th edition of Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene is a resource text serving industrial hygienists and safety professionals with years of experience, but is also an instructional text for industrial hygiene courses. FIH continues to be a valuable source of information that can be incorporated into the goals and objectives of any organization’s occupational hazard control program.
Hardcover: 1248 pagesPublisher: National Safety Council; 6th Edition (August 10, 2012)Language: EnglishISBN: 978-0-87912-312-3Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 11.3 inches
This 6th edition of Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene builds on four decades of excellent and dedicated work of previous contributors to one of the National Safety Council’s cornerstone books. Since 1971, experts from a wide variety of subject areas have come together to make FIH an important resource for those interested in and directly responsible for the recognition, evaluation, and control of occupational hazards. This update continues in that tradition, bringing to the industrial hygienist, safety professional, and medical professional a broad discussion of workplace hazards, control procedures, government regulations, and environmental issues. This new edition of Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene features extensively updated information in all chapters. New or completely rewritten chapters include Particulate Matter, Ionizing Radiation, Personal Protective Equipment, Environmental Health and Safety, Government Regulations, and International Developments in Occupational Safety and Health.
The 6th edition of Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene is a resource text serving industrial hygienists and safety professionals with years of experience, but is also an instructional text for industrial hygiene courses. FIH continues to be a valuable source of information that can be incorporated into the goals and objectives of any organization’s occupational hazard control program.Hardcover: 1248 pagesPublisher: National Safety Council; 6th Edition (August 10, 2012)Language: EnglishISBN: 978-0-87912-314-7Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 11.3 inches
This library contains six titles that are fundamental to any professional safety practice:
1. Administration and Programs book, 14th edition 2. Engineering & Technology book, 14th edition 3. Environment Management, 2nd edition 4. Security Management, 2nd edition5. Occupational Health & Safety, 3rd edition.6. Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene, 6th editionFor more information on individual books, please view them separately in the catalog.
The NSC First Aid Quick Guide is your quick start to First Aid live saving efforts. It comes in a Pack of 10.
This quick reference book is a compilation of several resources related to the art and science of safety management. The small guidebook serves as a useful resource for anyone dedicated to the continuous improvement of occupational safety and health and can be easily transported to class, injury site, or job site.
Product Number: 17648-0000 ISBN# 978-0-87912-331-4
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