High Safety

Developed by experienced teachers, and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your Associate Safety Professional Certification Exam. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to succeed in your Associate Safety Professional Certification Exam class. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized sections. There are key takeaways following each section to drive home key points, and quizzes to review commonly tested questions.

The Parkland school shooting was the most avoidable mass murder in American history. And the policies that made it inevitable have spread to your school....

It’s high-wheelers versus the new safety bike in a knock-down, drag-out seven-day bicycle race – elbows flying. In the year 1889, bicycles reigned supreme and races drew thousands of cheering fans. Tab Huntsman, aspiring reporter and cyclist, joins amateur racer Gary Mandrel in their quest to prove the safety bike is better. They’re up against professionals on high-wheelers. And so begins a week-long event on an indoor track, filled with skullduggery, crashes, drugs, cheating, and cutthroat competition. Who will win the $1000 prize? Extensive research and the author’s cycling ...

Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy - and where it's happening today.

Women have been culturally trained to discount one of their greatest protections—safety intuition. As women, it is so ingrained in us to attend to everyone else, including strangers on the street, before we listen to ourselves, that we have lost touch with our innate ability to often detect dangerous situations. As the result, we are left generally defenseless to recognize predators who manipulate our natural compassion, to our own detriment.

Blast Off: Your Ultimate Guide to the Thrilling World of Rocketry! Ignite your passion and soar into the exciting world of rocketry with this comprehensive and entertaining eBook, Blast Off! Are you an aspiring rocket enthusiast eager to learn the ins and outs of this captivating hobby? Look no further! This essential guide covers everything you need to know about launching yourself into the fascinating realm of model rocketry. Whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced rocketeer, Blast Off offers invaluable insights and information for hobbyists of all levels. Gain essential ...

From a highly regarded feminist cultural critic and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn't empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality. Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis, if anyone thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress.

Prepare for liftoff with Blast Off!, the ultimate guide to the exhilarating world of model rocketry! Are you fascinated by the thrill of launching model rockets into the sky, but unsure where to start? Look no further! Blast Off! is your comprehensive, one-stop guide to everything you need to know about this exciting hobby. With 30 action-packed chapters, this eBook covers every aspect of model rocketry, from the basics to advanced techniques. Begin your journey with an introduction to model rocketry, as well as an overview of its rich history. Get acquainted with essential safety ...

Culture-Based Safety is a comprehensive, actionable guide that unlocks the keys to building, embedding, and sustaining a world-class safety culture in any organization. Combining decades of field experience with real-world case studies and globally recognized best practices, this book offers a step-by-step approach to transforming safety from a set of rules into an organizational mindset that drives performance, employee engagement, and long-term business success. Inside this book, you will learn how to shape a proactive safety culture starting from the top. Discover how leadership ...

"Pass the Emergency Services Dispatcher Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Public Safety Emergency Communications Officer" is a comprehensive study guide designed to help aspiring dispatchers succeed in their careers. Covering essential topics such as emergency response procedures, call classification and prioritization, dispatch systems and technology, emergency medical dispatch, crisis intervention, and legal and ethical responsibilities, this guide provides a thorough understanding of the skills and knowledge needed for the role. From mastering radio communication systems to learning ...

Conquer the WellSharp Certification: Your Concise Guide to Mastering Well Control for Oil and Gas Drilling is a streamlined yet comprehensive resource designed for professionals preparing for the WellSharp certification or seeking to deepen their understanding of well control. This guide provides a clear and practical approach to mastering essential concepts, making it an invaluable supplement to more detailed training programs and materials. The book covers critical topics, including pressure management, kick detection, blowout preventers, kill methods, and choke line operations. It ...

Set Sail: The Ultimate Guide to a Rewarding Career in Container Shipping Are you looking for a career filled with adventure, global travel, and lucrative opportunities? Look no further than container shipping! In Set Sail, you'll find everything you need to know to jumpstart your career in one of the most exciting industries in the world. From understanding the hierarchy on a container ship to building an impressive maritime resume and acing job interviews, Set Sail covers it all. You'll learn about the different types of container ships, engineering challenges, necessary certifications and...

Mastering urban survival doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. Even if you live in a tiny apartment with limited storage space, it's easier than you think. Urban preppers with proper knowledge and minimal equipment have a 78% higher survival rate in crisis situations. Well-prepared urban dwellers can be self-sufficient for up to 30 days with the right planning and resources. You can achieve peace of mind and readiness without turning your home into a bunker or breaking the bank.

In many US cities, gun violence is the most urgent crime problem. High rates of deadly violence make a city less livable, dragging down quality of life, economic development, and property values. How can police departments find the right balance between over- and under-policing of high-violence areas? What are the best practices for police to preempt and deter gun violence, while engendering support and cooperation from the public?

Here, at last, is an audiobook that addresses the real heart of workplace safety: you. Your attitude, your priorities, and your mind-set all have more to do with how safe you are at work than you’ve probably ever imagined. Tuning In to Safety is about taking charge of a factor you can control: specifically, your thought process. The listener is challenged to define personal safety goals, then to reflect on how they think in regard to safety. Many will be shocked to realize their own thinking is working against them in their efforts to keep themselves and their coworkers safe.

What do you get when you combine a weekend survival adventure, one sleeping bag, and a mountain man who loves to make the rules? A five-star Daddy experience. I’m in town for a wedding. Heels, champagne, and a final thesis on wilderness survival. He’s the Boone brother who gets paid to keep people like me from dying out here. The one who swore off women a decade ago. I’m too soft. Too mouthy. I don’t listen. Now I’m tripping over roots and testing his patience. And learning things they definitely don’t teach in grad school. I came for extra credit. He came to show me it’s okay...

Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In Coding Democracy, Maureen Webb offers another view. Hackers, she argues, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice, an ethos, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens are inventing new forms of distributed, decentralized democracy for a digital era. Confronted with concentrations of power, mass surveillance, and authoritarianism enabled by new technology, the hacking movement is trying to "build out" democracy into cyberspace.

This collection of essays deals with the situated management of risk in a wide variety of organizational settings. The emphasis in these contributions is upon the variety of ways in which organizational actors, in combination with a range of material technologies and artifacts, such as safety reporting systems, risk maps, and key risk indicators, accomplish and make sense of the normal work of managing risk - riskwork.

Unlike most academic books that merely define research, The Refractive Thinker® series offers unique application of effective business practices from the perspective of multiple authors – each offering a chapter based on their scholarly expertise. The Refractive Thinker® series provides doctoral scholars with a collaborative opportunity to promote and publish their work in an award winning peer-reviewed publication, which meets the university standard. Our goal is to provide an affordable outlet for scholars that supports the tremendous need for dynamic dialogue and innovation while ...