Health Safety

Transform the power of a safer, healthier workplace with this comprehensive guide to ISO 45001—the international standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS). Written by Dr. Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, this book provides a step-by-step roadmap for organizations to implement ISO 45001, ensuring a robust safety culture, legal compliance, and the protection of your most valuable asset—your employees. Whether you're just starting your journey toward ISO 45001 certification or looking to improve an existing safety management system, this guide covers all the essential ...

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The costs of workplace injuries and property damage are increasing every day. It is essential to identify actions you can take to reduce these costs. The author of this book has twenty years of experience managing safety and occupational health programs that target the causes of workplace accidents to prevent them and bring down costs. Principles of management that can help safety and occupational health managers be successful. This book received a five-star review from Readers' Favorite.

A wide-ranging and provocative look - teeming with little-known facts and engaging stories - at a subject of the direst interest. Poisons permeate our world. They are in the environment, the workplace, the home. They are in food, our favorite whiskey, medicine, well water. They have been used to cure disease as well as incapacitate and kill. They smooth wrinkles, block pain, stimulate, and enhance athletic ability. In this entertaining and fact-filled audiobook, science writer Peter Macinnis considers poisons in all their aspects. He recounts stories of the celebrated poisoners in history and literature....

This audiobook is a practical guide that shows how leaders can build psychological safety in their organizations, creating an environment where employees feel included, fully engaged, and encouraged to contribute their best efforts and ideas. Perhaps, the leader’s most challenging task is to increase intellectual friction while decreasing social friction.

Safety skills for children outside the home Warning signs of sexual abuse How to screen baby-sitters and choose schools Strategies for keeping teenagers safe from violence All parents face the same challenges when it comes to their children's safety: whom to trust, whom to distrust, what to...

Conquer the DANB RHS Exam in Under 90 Minutes delivers a complete yet concise review of everything a dental assistant needs to know about radiography. This focused guide explains essential principles of radiation safety, image technique, infection prevention, and professional conduct. Every chapter is designed for comprehension and retention. You’ll explore how radiation is produced, how to control exposure using the ALARA principle, and how to capture sharp, undistorted images while protecting both patient and operator. The book also explains infection control in the radiographic setting...

It is hard to change almost a lifetime of your organization’s thinking about safety in the traditional way and it is really difficult to change your organization’s history of bureaucracy that continues to reinforce the traditional safety definitions and metrics our organizations have used for many years. Let’s face it, change even for the better is hard to do. Doing Safety Differently is a discussion between two friends on what they have learned by watching organizations around the world change the way they do work.

Self-defense isn’t just about firearms—it’s about mindset, knowledge, and skills. Even if you prefer non-lethal methods, knowing where to start is key. This guide combines expert insights from law enforcement, medics, and investigators to give you a complete self-defense plan.

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your CHST or Construction Health and Safety Technician Exam. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to succeed on your test. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized chapters. There are key takeaways following each chapter to drive home key points and quizzes to review commonly tested questions.

What if the construction site you work on could be safer, more efficient, and free from avoidable accidents? In an industry where risks are ever-present, ensuring the health and safety of workers is not just a legal obligation but a moral one. This comprehensive guide delves deep into the critical role of health and safety technicians in the construction industry, providing invaluable insights for professionals looking to create safer work environments and reduce the number of injuries on-site.

Deb Dana is the foremost translator of polyvagal theory into clinical practice. Here, in her third book on this groundbreaking theory, she provides therapists with a grab-bag of polyvagal-informed exercises for their clients, to use both within and between sessions. These exercises offer readily understandable explanations of the ways the autonomic nervous system directs daily living.

Plant-powered care you can trust at home. The Survival Apothecary Bible is a family-friendly, evidence-based reference for herbal remedies, medicinal plants, and natural first aid—built to help you handle everyday upsets with clarity and confidence. Your 5-in-1 home advantage: This book brings together step-by-step plans for everyday ailments (coughs, colds, sore throats, fevers, ear discomfort, headaches, allergies, tummy troubles, stress, sleep issues, rashes, bites, cuts, burns), safe dosages for adults and kids with pharmacist-reviewed cautions on interactions and contraindications, ...

When I teach people about self-defense, I teach them about the ins and outs of handguns that are popular, how they work, and how to fix common issues. But how do you find out when the time comes if you will be able to pull the trigger? I want to prepare you mentally and physically, and I want you to know all the laws that may affect you - along with making you a master of concealed carry where you are comfortable, confident, and will know when and how to use it if the time ever comes.

The Fearless Organization offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent, but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of "fitting in" and "going along" spells doom in the knowledge economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule, or intimidate.

With real-world considerations in mind, disaster preparedness consultant David Black shows us how to stay alive when tragedy strikes. His step-by-step actions can help us make it safely through a variety of crises, from catastrophic weather to terrorism to civil unrest. Black presents tailor-made plans for individuals, businesses, organizations, small groups, and communities to follow, in all regions of the country and broken down by type of emergency and environment.

The costs of injuries and property damage from construction accidents increase daily. There is information that can help reduce or eliminate these costs. This second edition focuses on the top accident causes in the construction industry. The author has twenty years of experience managing safety, and occupational health programs that target the accident causes to reduce or eliminate these costs. This book received three five-star reviews from Reader's Favorite.

Workplace Safety Is Achievable! This book is based on a case study of an actual safety culture transformation that took place in a large manufacturing facility. Bryan McWhorter walks readers through the main steps taken to improve workplace safety. In one year the factory experienced a 50% reduction in OSHA record-able accidents. Employees identified 545 safety projects as they engaged and supported management’s new safety first initiative. Worker health and safety is vital for morale and must be supported in a proactive manner. This book shows you how.

With the high cost of workplace accidents and injuries, collateral-additional duty safety specialists must be familiar with the safety programs that can prevent or control the hazards that cause them. Numerous concise essays on topics in Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) provide a perfect introduction to SHE, engaging and applicable. Information in the essays can help the collateral-additional duty safety specialist act to prevent accidents that could result in injuries, illnesses, and property damage and save valuable resources. The author has twenty years of experience managing safety...

Ever since publication of The Polyvagal Theory in 2011, demand for information about this innovative perspective has been constant. Here Stephen W. Porges brings together his most important writings since the publication of that seminal work. At its heart, polyvagal theory is about safety. It provides an understanding that feeling safe is dependent on autonomic states, and that our cognitive evaluations of risk in the environment, including identifying potentially dangerous relationships, play a secondary role to our visceral reactions to people and places.