Safety Management

To compete internationally, electrical installations and equipment must demonstrably comply with modern electrical safety structures required by international legislation governing the supply chain, as well as observing local regulations. The purpose of this book is both to describe the management of electrical safety, i.e. the chief responsible electrical specialist’s role including its various aspects and implications, and to provide guidance for creation of an adequate structure. It does not make reference to individual standards or to laws, which are typically national.

Half of all Americans live in areas subject to earthquake risk and most Americans will travel to seismically active regions in their lifetime. This guide will show you why you should care about earthquakes wherever you live, and how you can prepare, protect, survive, respond, recover, and repair. It will help you become familiar with why and where earthquakes might occur and discuss steps you can take to adequately prepare and protect yourself, your family, and your belongings.

Recently The Use of Hypnotherapy, Hypnosis and NLP Techniques to help a client experience a Virtual Reality Gastric Band Operation inside their minds to successfully help them to dramatically lose weight without the need for an expensive, painful and/or potentially dangerous operation has made news all over the world. Wilf Archer is one of Britain’s Most Highly Qualified and Skilled Experienced Hypnotherapists and indeed is the Competent Health and Safety person for the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC) here in England. He is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational...

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.

Each year Americans lose billions of dollars to fraudulent activity. The Madoffs Among Us explains in graphic detail how and why people fall prey. Most importantly, it tells you how to easily identify the people who perpetrate these crimes and avoid their deceitful practices. Why do smart people fall for these cons? What are today’s most common scams? And how can you avoid becoming a victim?

Press Ganey's chief nursing officer Christina Dempsey has worked everywhere in healthcare, from the ward floor to the hospital boardroom. She has also experienced the system as a patient and as a family member of a critically ill patient. In The Antidote to Suffering, this 30-year healthcare veteran and patient-experience thought leader argues that the key to improving healthcare is to reduce the suffering - physical, psychological, and emotional - of patients and caregivers alike through Compassionate Connected CareTM.