Industrial safety and health management / C. Ray Asfahl, David W. Rieske

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. The safety and health manager -- A reasonable objective -- Safety versus health -- Role in the corporate structure -- Resources at hand -- 2. Development of the safety and health function -- Workers' compensation -- Recordkeeping -- Accident cause analysis -- Organization of committees -- Safety and health economics -- Training -- Job placement testing -- The smoke-free workplace -- Bloodborne pathogens -- Workplace violence -- 3. Concepts of hazard avoidance -- The enforcement approach -- The psychological approach -- The engineering approach -- The analytical approach -- Hazard-classification scale -- 4. Impact of federal regulation -- Standards -- NIOSH -- Enforcement -- Public uproar -- Role of the States -- Political trends -- Immigrant workers -- 5. Information systems -- Hazard communications -- International standards -- Environmental Protection Agency -- Department of Homeland Security -- Computer information systems -- 6. Process safety and disaster preparedness -- Process information -- Process analysis -- Operating procedures -- Training -- Contractor personnel -- Acts of terrorism -- Workplace security -- 7. Buildings and facilities -- Walking and working surfaces -- Exits -- Illumination -- Miscellaneous facilities -- Sanitation -- 8. Ergonomics -- Facets of ergonomics -- Workplace musculoskeletal disorders -- Affected industries -- Ergonomics standards -- WMSD management programs -- Ergonomic risk analysis -- NIOSH lifting equation -- Sources of ergonomic hazards -- 9. Health and toxic substances -- Baseline examinations -- Toxic substances -- Measures of exposure -- Standards Completion Project -- Detecting contaminants

10. Environmental control and noise -- Ventilation -- ASHRAE standards and indoor air quality -- Industrial noise -- Radiation -- 11. Flammable and explosive materials -- Flammable liquids -- Sources of ignition -- Standards compliance -- Combustible liquids -- Spray finishing -- Dip tanks -- Explosives -- Liquefied petroleum gas -- 12. Personal protection and first aid -- Protection need assessment -- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Training -- Hearing protection -- Eye and face protection -- Respiratory protection -- Confined space entry -- Head protection -- Miscellaneous personal protective equipment -- First Aid -- 13. Fire protection -- Mechanics of fire -- Industrial fires -- Fire prevention -- Dust explosions -- Emergency evacuation -- Fire brigades -- Fire extinguishers -- Standpipe and hose systems -- Automatic sprinkler systems -- Fixed extinguishing systems -- 14. Materials handling and storage -- Materials storage -- Industrial trucks -- Passengers -- Cranes -- Slings -- Conveyors -- Lifting -- 15. Machine guarding -- General machine guarding -- Safeguarding the point of operation -- Power presses -- Heat processes -- Grinding machines -- Saws -- Miscellaneous machine guarding -- Miscellaneous machines and processes -- Industrial robots -- 16. Welding -- Process terminology -- Gas welding hazards -- Arc welding hazards -- Resistance welding hazards -- Fires and explosions -- Eye protection -- Protective clothing -- Gases and fumes -- 17. Electrical hazards -- Electrocution hazards -- Fire hazards -- Arc flash -- Test equipment -- Frequent violations -- 18. Construction -- General facilities -- Personal protective equipment -- Fire protection -- Tools -- Electrical -- Ladders and scaffolds -- Floors and stairways -- Cranes and hoists -- Heavy vehicles and equipment -- ROPS -- Trenching and excavations -- Concrete work -- Steel erection -- Demolition -- Explosive blasting -- Electric utilities -- Appendices -- A. OSHA permissible exposure limits -- B. Medical treatment -- C. First-Aid treatment -- D. Classification of medical treatment -- E. Highly hazardous chemicals, toxics, and reactives -- F. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code -- G. States having federally approved state plans for occupational safety and health standards and enforcement

Unique in approach, Industrial Safety and Health Management, 6th Edition combines -- in one volume -- an exploration of the time-tested concepts and techniques of safety and health management, a modern perspective on compliance with mandatory standards for workplace safety and health, and a variety of solved problems, case studies, and exercises. It provides reasons, explanations, and illustrations of the hazard mechanisms that form the underlying basis for the volumes of detailed standards for workplace safety and health