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  • Residential Fire Safety

    An Interdisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Marcus Runefors, Ragnar Andersson, Mattias Delin, Thomas Gell ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of deaths and injuries from residential fires as well as the most up to date information on evidence-based approaches to reduce this problem. The volume serves as a guide for professionals working in the field of fire prevention and as a textbook for instruction in universities and fire service schools. The authors’ interdisciplinary approach, where ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Universal Design

    Creating Inclusive Environments

    by Edward Steinfeld, Jordana Maisel ...
    A much-needed reference to the latest thinking in universal designUniversal Design: Creating Inclusive Environments offers a comprehensive survey of best practices and innovative solutions in universal design. Written by top thinkers at the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDeA), it demonstrates the difference between universal design and accessibility and identifies its ... Read more

    $77.00 USD

  • Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning

    Bridging Disciplinary Gaps through Partnership and Communication

    Edited by Brian Golding ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is about making weather warnings more effective in saving lives, property, infrastructure and livelihoods, but the underlying theme of the book is partnership. The book represents the warning process as a pathway linking observations to weather forecasts to hazard forecasts to socio-economic impact forecasts to warning messages to the protective decision, via a set of five bridges that ... Read more

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  • Design for Critical Care

    An Evidence-Based Approach

    by D. Kirk Hamilton, Mardelle McCuskey Shepley ...
    It is now widely recognized that the physical environment has an impact on the physiology,psychology, and sociology of those who experience it. When designing a critical care unit,the demands on the architect or designer working together with the interdisciplinary teamof clinicians are highly specialized. Good design can have a hugely positive impact in termsof the recovery of patients and their ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

  • Occupational Health and Safety

    by Sharon Clarke ...
    Series series Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk
    Workplace accidents and errors cost organizations hundreds of billions of dollars each year, and the injured workers and their families endure considerable financial and emotional suffering. It's obvious that increasing employee health and safety pays. The accumulating evidence shows that investing in occupational health and safety results in improved financial and social responsibility ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • ABC of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

    Edited by David Snashall, Dipti Patel ...
    Series series ABC Series
    This new edition of Occupational and Environmental Medicine concentrates more on the newer kinds of occupational disease including those (like “RSI” and pesticide poisoning) where exposure and effects are difficult to understand. There is specific emphasis on work, health and wellbeing, with links to public health, health promotion, the value of work, disabled people at work, the aging workforce, ... Read more

    $43.00 USD

  • Performance Measurement for Health System Improvement

    Experiences, Challenges and Prospects

    Edited by Peter C. Smith, Elias Mossialos, Irene Papanicolas, Sheila Leatherman ...
    Series series Health Economics, Policy and Management
    In a world where there is increasing demand for the performance of health providers to be measured, there is a need for a more strategic vision of the role that performance measurement can play in securing health system improvement. This volume meets this need by presenting the opportunities and challenges associated with performance measurement in a framework that is clear and easy to understand. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Fatal Solution

    How a Healthcare System Used Tragedy to Transform Itself and Redefine Just Culture

    by Jan M. Davies, MSc, MD, FRCPC, FRAeS, Carmella Steinke, RRT, BHS(RT), MPA, W. Ward Flemons, MD, FRCPC ...
    One box of chemicals mistaken for another. Ingredients intended to be life-sustaining are instead life-taking. Families in shock, healthcare providers reeling and fingers starting to point. A large healthcare system’s reputation hangs in the balance while decisions need to be made, quickly. More questions than answers. People have to be held accountable – does this mean they get fired? Should the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Vision Zero Handbook

    Theory, Technology and Management for a Zero Casualty Policy

    Edited by Karin Edvardsson Björnberg, Sven Ove Hansson, Matts-Åke Belin, Claes Tingvall ...
    Series series Reference Module Humanities
    This open access handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of Vision Zero, an innovative policy on public road safety developed in Sweden. Covering all the major topics of the subject, the book starts out with a thorough examination of the philosophy, ideas and principles behind Vision Zero. It looks at conditions for the effectiveness of the policy, principles of safety and responsibility as ... Read more

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  • Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection

    A handbook for field professionals

    Edited by Irene A. Kreis, Araceli Busby, Giovanni Leonardi, Jill Meara, Virginia Murray ...
    Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection guides front line public health practitioners through the decisions they are likely to face when dealing with environmental health problems. It does this by showing how to integrate relevant aspects of environmental science, communication sciences, toxicology, and most importantly environmental epidemiology skills to conduct initial ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Decision-Making in Environmental Health

    From Evidence to Action

    by D. Briggs, C. Corvalan, G. Zielhuis ...
    Decision-Making in Environmental Health examines the need for information in support of decision-making in environmental health. It discusses indicators of environmental health, methods of data collection and the assessment of exposure to and the health impact of different environmental risk factors. ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Ergonomics Guidelines and Problem Solving

    Edited by A. Mital, Å. Kilbom, S. Kumar ...
    Series Book 1 - Elsevier Ergonomics Book Series
    There is an urgent need to disseminate ergonomics "know-how" to the work place. This book meets that need by providing clear guidelines and problem solving recommendations to assist the practitioner in decisions that directly protect the health, safety and well-being of the worker.The guidelines have evolved from a series of symposia on Ergonomic Guidelines and Problem Solving. Initially experts ... Read more

    $124.99 USD