The Safety Professionals Handbook, Second Edition, continues ASSP’s commitment to providing a unique resource to practicing safety professionals, in one source that can be easily accessed and understood. No other EHS publication offers the breadth of information from such a multitude of experienced safety professionals.
NEW INFORMATION ON:
• Best Practices in Safety Training, including strategic planning
• Substance abuse prevention and Worker’s Compensation
• OSHA Training Requirements
• Risk management plan for chemical spill/leak response
• Information management systems for Environmental Management Information management systems for Environmental Management
UPDATES ON ALL CHAPTERS INCLUDING:
• The impact of the aging workforce, including NIOSH’s Work Life Initiative
• OSHA Training Requirements
• OSHA Outreach Training Program.
The second edition broadens the scope of what EHS professionals consider the most important and essential health and safety programs and information, covering each topic area from several points of view; regulatory, science and engineering, cost analysis and budgeting, benchmarking and performance criteria, and best practices. Also included are the results of new research on subjects ranging from resource allocation modeling and improved hazardous materials handling to work physiology improvements. Readers can have confidence in the technical accuracy and the depth and breadth of coverage in the book. Readers can measure their own experiences against both the summary of the research and the validated experience and insight of our authors. Attention Instructors: Desk copies of the Safety Professionals Handbook, Second Edition, are available to instructors upon request who are considering the Handbook for course adoption. Download the Desk Copy Request Form. An Instructor's Guide containing questions and answers for each of the chapters in The Safety Professionals Handbook is available upon request at no cost to instructors who have adopted the handbook for a course. You must provide the title and number of the course, the semester/term offered and the expected enrollment. Please submit a completed Instructor’s Guide Request Form
Author: Joel M. Haight
ISBN Print: 978-1-885581-60-0
ISBN Digital: 978-1-885581-89-1
Formats: Print and Digital
Publisher: American Society of Safety Engineers
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 976
About the Author
Joel M. Haight, Ph.D., P.E., is the Branch Chief of the Human Factors Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) at their Pittsburgh Office of Mine Safety and Health Research. For the nearly 10 years prior to this appointment, Dr. Haight served as an Associate Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He has a Ph.D. and Master's degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering both from Auburn University. Dr. Haight worked as a manager and an environmental and safety engineer for the: Chevron Corporation for 18 years, prior to joining the faculty at Penn State. He has published nearly 40 peer-reviewed articles. He is a professional member of American Society of Safety Professionals, American Industrial Hygiene Association and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
About the Section Coordinators
About the Authors
Technical Reviewers
Basic Economic Analysis and Engineering Economics (Anthony Veltri and James D. Ramsay)
Sustainability and the Safety, Health, and Environmental Professional (Kathy A. Seabrook, Robert Stewart, Jeffery Camplin, and Mike Taubitz)
Section 1 Management of Safety Engineering Work
1.1 Regulatory Issues (Anjan K. Majumder)
1.2 Applied Science and Engineering
1.3 General Safety Management (Jeffery C. Camplin)
1.4 Managing a Safety Engineering Project (Joel M. Haight)
1.5 Global Issues (Kathy A. Seabrook)
1.6 Cost Analysis and Budgeting (T. Michael Toole)
1.7 Benchmarking and Performance Criteria (Christopher Janicak)
1.8 Best Practices (Linda Rowley)
Section 2 Hazard Communication and Right-to-Know
2.1 Regulatory Issues (James M. Miller)
2.2 Cost Analysis and Budgeting (James D. Ramsay and Anthony Veltri)
2.3 Benchmarking and Performance Criteria (David Fender and Hamid Fonooni)
2.4 Best Practices (Sharon Campbell)
Section 3 Environmental Management
3.1 Air Pollution Control and Mitigation (Anthony J. Joseph and Tyler Nguyen)
3.2 Water and Wastewater ( Judy Freeman)
3.3 Solid Waste (William S. Fink)
3.4 Hazardous Waste (Salvatore Caccavale, Barry R. Weissman, Thomas S. Butler, Jr., and Judy Freeman)
3.5 Hazardous Material Spills and Response (George Walton and Cherie Walton)
3.6 Management Systems (Robert R. Stewart)
Section 4 Safety and Health Training
4.1 Regulatory Issues
4.2 OSHA (Lon Ferguson)
4.3 EPA (Charles Stanfill, Jr.)
4.4 NIOSH, ANSI Z490, and Other Standards (David Coble)
4.5 Applied Science and Engineering:
4.6 Safety Training Theories (Phyllis Simmons)
4.7 Safety Training and Documentation Principles (Fred Fanning)
4.8 Cost Analysis and Budgeting (Brent Altemose)
4.9 Benchmarking and Performance Criteria (Richard A. Stempniak and Linda Tapp)
4.10 Best Practices (Michael Behm and C. Keith Stalnaker)
Section 5 Workers’ Compensation
5.1 Regulatory Issues (Adele L. Abrams)
5.2 Benchmarking and Performance Criteria (James Bradshaw)
5.3 Best Practices (Fred Drennan and Katina Drennan)
Section 6 Fleet Safety
6.1 Regulatory Issues
6.2 DOT Regulations (Gregory L. Smith)
6.3 OSHA and Other Regulations (Nancy Bendickson)
6.4 Applied Science and Engineering
6.5 Vehicles and Accidents (Jubal Hammernik and Peter M. Himpsel)
6.6 Vehicle Engineering and Ergonomics (Dennis R. Andrews)
6.7 Cost Analysis and Budgeting (Fran Sehn)
6.8 Benchmarking and Performance Criteria (Edward Musal)
6.9 Best Practices (Phil Moser, Carmen W. Daecher, and Amy Stewart)
Appendix: Formulas, Computations, and Rules-of-Thumb (Ben Cranor and Matthew Elam)
Index
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