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A complete guide to environmental, safety, and health engineering, including an overview of EPA and OSHA regulations; principles of environmental engineering, including pollution prevention, waste and wastewater treatment and disposal, environmental statistics, air emissions and abatement engineering, and hazardous waste storage and containment; principles of safety engineering, including safety management, equipment safety, fire and life safety, process and system safety, confined space safety, and construction safety; and principles of industrial hygiene/occupational health engineering including chemical hazard assessment, personal protective equipment, industrial ventilation, ionizing and nonionizing radiation, noise, and ergonomics. ... Read more

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Excellent Overview of ES&H
I found this book to be an excellent review of the field of environmental health and safety.It is balanced between the sometimes separate fields of environmental health and occupational health and safety.The book managesto cover both areas very well.Of the books I have read and used, this isprobably the best combined coverage of the entire ES&H field.A wealthof helpful examples are included so the reader can adapt them for their ownneeds.Definitely a worthwhile book for professionals and students dealingwith these issues to own.

Excellent Overview of ES&H
I found this book to be an excellent review of the field of environmental health and safety.It is balanced between the sometimes separate fields of environmental health and occupational health and safety.The book managesto cover both areas very well.Of the books I have read and used, this isprobably the best combined coverage of the entire ES&H field.A wealthof helpful examples are included so the reader can adapt them for their ownneeds.Definitely a worthwhile book for professionals and students dealingwith these issues to own. ... Read more

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This book gives you an insider's look at the successful career of an expert witness in traffic safety. Archie Burnham discusses what he has learned in his fifty years of experience as a traffic safety expert. You'll learn the secrets of what to look for during an investigation, how to work with public groups, how to testify as an expert witness and much more. This is the perfect book for someone looking to break into the field of traffic investigations or expert consulting. ... Read more

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Since centuries foods have been preserved by heating, chilling,drying, salting, conserving, acidification, oxygen-removal,fermenting, adding various preservatives, etc., and often thesemethods were applied in combinations. More recently the underlyingprinciples of these traditional methods have been defined (i.e., F, t,aw, pH, Eh, competitive flora, various preservatives), and effectivelimits of these factors for microbial growth, survival, and death wereestablished. Food preservation and also food quality depends in mostcases on the empirical and now more often on the deliberate andintelligent application of combined preservative factors, i.e. onso-called hurdle technology. It also became obvious that futuristicfood preservation methods (e.g., high hydrostatic pressure,high-intensity pulsed electric fields, high-intensity pulsed light,oscillating magnetic fields as well as food irradiation) are mosteffective in combination with additional hurdles. Thus, hurdletechnology is also the key of food preservation in the future.Furthermore, basic aspects of hurdle technology (i.e., homeostasis,metabolic exhaustion, and stress reactions of microorganisms as wellas the multitarget preservation of foods) have been recognized to beof fundamental importance and are increasingly studied in relation tohurdle technology.Different aspects of improvements of traditional foods and in thedevelopment of novel foods via hurdle technology have been coveredrecently in numerous articles and book chapters. However, HurdleTechnologies: Combination Treatments for Food Stability, Safetyand Quality is the first work on hurdle technology in whichall aspects, the possibilities and limitations of hurdle technology,are comprehensively outlined and evaluated. World-renowned on thesubject, Leistner and Gould were instrumental in the development ofthe hurdle technology concept and in the last decades have obtainedmuch practical experience in the application of this successfulapproach in the food industry worldwide. ... Read more

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Engineers traditionally base their designs on past experience; this is particularly true in the building and construction industry. In recent decades, however, as the design is increasingly required for systems in environments where there is very little experience to rely on, e.g. nuclear structures, offshore platforms, and space stations, the uncertainty that the engineer faces becomes an important issue and requires serious study. As the uncertainty in the structural loading in general plays a dominant role, in the last decade there has been a rapid increase in the study of the modeling and risk evaluation of loadings on structural systems, in particular, the problem of risk under multiple loads over the structure's lifetime. Methodologies based on probability and statistics theories have been developed to quantify the uncertainty and, as a result, engineers are now better equipped to face the challenge of design under uncertainty. This book provides an account of the development thus far in this area and can be understood by readers with only a basic background in probability and statistics. ... Read more

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Here is a new and analytical approach to chemical plant safety-encompassing design, construction, and operation to reduce the likelihood of hazardous incidents as well as actions to mitigate their consequences should they still occur.The most significant safety issues are addressed both from the viewpoint of the fundamental phenomena and the perspective of plant design.Many of the phenomena covered are outside the scope of the normal chemical engineering curriculae; examples include compressible multiphase flow, deflagrations and detonations, turbulent dispersion, thermochemical characterization methods for material decomposition and reactions.In the plant design area, topics of importance include built in redundancy of equipment, and minimization of inventory of hazardous materials.The combination of the fundamental and applied aspects makes this book a unique and useful one for both the academic and industrial sectors. ... Read more

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(Choosing the best method and the best tool for quantitative analysis)Published by LiLoLe-Verlag ... Read more

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Safety & Security Engineering, due to its special nature, represents an interdisciplinary area of research and applications that brings together, in a systemic view, many disciplines of engineering, from the most traditional to the most advanced and novel. Safety &Security Engineering is characterized by a totally new approach since it first analyzes the hazard context not only by means of traditional tools but also by means of risk analysis techniques and then manage the above mentioned context through technical solutions, installations, systems, human resources and procedures to prevent and face incidental events, natural and voluntary, that could damage people or goods. This volume contains papers presented at the Third International Conference on the Safety and Security Engineering, covering the following topics: Infrastructure Protection; Risk Analysis, Assessment and Management; Public Safety and Security; Homeland Security; Surveillance Systems; Injury Prevention; Safety Culture; Emergency and Disaster Management; Modelling and Theoretical Studies; Earthquakes; Transportation Problems; Geotechnical Problems; Railway Safety. ... Read more

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Smart technologies comprise a dynamic new interdisciplinary research field that encompasses a wide spectrum of engineering applications including, but not limited to, intelligent structures and materials, actuators, sensors and structural observability, control systems and software tools for the design of adaptive structures. Smart technologies focus on the issues surrounding the safety and integrity of engineering systems.

Smart Technologies for Safety Engineering presents the achievements of ten years of research from the Smart-Tech Centre applied to some of the key issues of safety engineering. Results presented include:

• Original methods and software tools for modelling, design, simulation and control of adaptive structures and applicability of the adaptive concept to the design of structures for extreme loads;
• Application of the smart-tech concept to hot research topics and emerging engineering issues including health monitoring of structures and engineering systems, monitoring of loading conditions, automatic structural adaptation to unpredictable, randomly changing dynamic conditions and the optimal design of adaptive structures and engineering systems;
• Numerically efficient and original software packages that can be used for the design of adaptive, as well as passive (without control devices) structures.
• The Virtual Distortion Method, which has been developed especially for fast reanalysis of structures and systems and exact sensitivity analysis, allowing for effective modelling, design, health monitoring and control of smart engineering systems.

The original research and practical applications in Smart Technologies for Safety Engineering will appeal to a broad spectrum of engineers, researchers, professors and graduate students involved in the research, design and development of widely understood  adaptronics and mechatronics, including smart structures and materials, adaptive impact absorption, health and load monitoring, vibration control, vibroacoustics and related issues.  ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This volume contains a selection of papers from the "Railtech 1996" event dealing with railway engineering, systems and safety. The topics covered include platform edge doors, factors influencing derailment risk and automatic train protection and the operational railway. ... Read more