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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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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Conquer the CSP Exam in Under 90 Minutes delivers a rapid yet thorough review of the essential topics you need to know for Certified Safety Professional success. Designed for busy professionals, this concise guide focuses on high-impact areas of safety management, risk control, and core certification concepts so you can optimize your study time and boost exam confidence. You’ll find clear, easy-to-understand explanations of safety program development, hazard identification, accident investigation, emergency preparedness, and regulatory compliance. Key concepts are reinforced with ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

"Introduction to ISO 45001:2018: A Comprehensive Guide to Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems" provides a practical, step-by-step approach to implementing ISO 45001. Designed for organizations and professionals seeking to improve their occupational health and safety management systems, this guide helps create safer, healthier work environments. It offers in-depth explanations, real-world case studies, and customizable tools to help you reduce risks, ensure compliance, and achieve continuous improvement in your OHSMS. Whether you're new to ISO 45001 or transitioning from other ...

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.

In Dangerous Personalities, former FBI profiler Joe Navarro shows listeners how to identify the four most common "dangerous personalities", and analyze how much of a threat each one can be: the Narcissist, the Predator, the Paranoid, and the Unstable Personality. Along the way, listeners learn how to protect themselves both immediately and long-term - as well as how to recover from the trauma of being close to such a destructive force.

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....

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, ...

An urgent and practical book that helps parents and their boys navigate important topics like sex, drugs, bullying, power, consent, and more in a way that helps them grow their emotional intelligence, while also building connection and a closeness that can last a lifetime. Talk to your Boys is a...

From Concussions, mTBi to traumatic brain injury, this book is the best guide in learning about TBI scientifically and practically, so you are ready to take the right action at the right time to limit the damage and overcome challenges that come with it, both as a caregiver and as the patient. From understanding symptoms and diagnosis with early recovery to long term goals, covered are the mechanics, anatomy, symptoms of brain injury, diagnosis, levels, acute management and treatment options, rehabilitation, early recovery, outcomes of tbi, mtbi or concussion, discharge plan, post-...

Achieve your CPHQ credential faster with this concise, exam-focused review. Conquer the CPHQ Exam in Under 90 Minutes delivers a targeted overview of the most critical concepts in healthcare quality improvement, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and performance measurement. Tailored for busy healthcare professionals, this guide highlights key principles, essential definitions, and proven test-taking strategies—all in a format designed for quick study. Get the clarity and confidence you need to pass the first time and advance your career in healthcare quality. This book is ...