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In Combat-Related Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD: A Resource and Recovery Guide, authors Cheryl Lawhorne and Don Philpott offer guidance for the returning veteran, from treatment options, to diagnostic criteria and techniques, to resources for rehabilitation and support.

This new edition of Environmental Health and Safety Audits not only will help you put your company on course toward effective environmental compliance, but also now brings you up to date on changes in EPA and OSHA auditing policies, issues currently confronting auditing programs, and state-of-the-art strategies for managing and conducting audits.

The construction industry safety-and-health standards contained in this book will help employers, supervisors, and safety and health personnel understand their obligations and achieve compliance with OSHA standards in the workplace.

Provides environmental and occupational-safety-and-health practitioners and students with a comprehensive overview of the principles and concepts of modern biology.

Addresses various topics from the history of the federal agencies that enforce the regulations to the requirements of the regulations themselves. This book provides facility managers with an instruction manual for understanding and complying with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations.

Addressing the most common causes of excavation, trenching, and shoring violations, Excavation Safety provides you with the insight you need to ensure compliance and protect workers'' lives and company investments. The author provides step-by-step methods for restricting workers from hazardous areas, providing egress from excavations, protecting workers from materials and equipment, selecting competent people to perform self-inspections, and ensuring a protection system is in place. The first part of the book explains the hazards of the excavation site and the need for safe work practices. The second part contains all relevant OSHA standards as well as extensive notes, annotations, and comments. You will learn which actions should be taken at each site to eliminate serious injury, work delays, and additional costs. Such actions include evaluating soil conditions and structure, designing support systems to guard against cave-ins, and conducting self audits to detect potential problems. You will also examine pre-site considerations, including educating workers about unmarked, undetected underground utility lines, identifying employer responsibilities, and establishing a training program based on OSHA''s model of voluntary training guidelines. Each chapter includes a content summary for quick reference, and the included case studies provide examples of common excavation errors and the corrective actions required to fix them.

Written in an easy-to-read conversational tone, Beyond Safety Accountability explains how to develop an organizational culture that encourages people to be accountable for their work practices and to embrace a higher sense of personal responsibility. The author begins by thoroughly explaining the difference between safety accountability and safety responsibility. He then examines the need of organizations to improve safety performance, discusses why such performance improvement can be achieved through a continuous safety process, as distinguished from a safety program, and provides the practical tools you can use to build personal responsibility in your workplace.

The Second edition helps you assess your exposure to disasters and formulate OSHA- and EPA-compliant plans that reduce the risk of losses. As well as revisiting disasters such as fires, explosions, floods, earthquakes, and transportation incidents, this edition reflects and examines changes made to emergency preparedness and mitigation efforts.

The newly revised and thoroughly updated Environmental Compliance Made Easy handbook from Government Institutes' popular "Made Easy" series reorganizes thousands of pages worth of federal environmental regulatory programs into one easy-to-use compliance resource, organized by program. Intended as both a beginner's guide and a veteran's reference, this edition provides readers with a concise summary of the major environmental programs. Readers will emerge with a fundamental understanding of which environmental management programs they should consider and how to implement them when developing proactive, successful, and reliable regulatory compliance programs.

Marine Safety provides a toolbox of field-tested and proven tools for assessing and managing marine risks and making better-informed decisions to prevent marine casualties. Using this book as a guide, managers in the marine industry learn to apply 12 common risk-based decision-making tools that help them make practical and technically-defensible decisions for managing port and waterway operations, conducting inspections, and preparing and responding to accidents. The authors thorough examine the 12 tools and include discussions on each tool's concepts, limitations, common uses, procedures, terminology, and applications to marine safety in a clearly outlined, user-friendly format.

Written for safety managers of both large and small fleets of vehicles, this complete guide shows you how to identify and understand your three key responsibilities as a safety manager: prevent accidents, protect your company's property against potential loss, and comply with the requirements of Occupational Safety and Health Act and Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations. Relevant motor-carrier-safety regulations are presented in easy-to-use checklists, simplifying the confusing task of compliance, and 15 ready-to-use forms for complying with DOT's reporting and recordkeeping requirements are included.

Used by the OSH Administration's compliance officers as a reference for technical information on safety and health issues, this manual enables both business and industry to evaluate their own facilities for compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The manual features all compliance and regulatory revisions issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, effective January 20, 1999, and covers such topics as sampling and measurement methods, health hazards, construction operations, health care facilities, ergonomics, and personal protective equipment.

Learn where OSHA inspectors will look, what they'll look for, how they'll evaluate your working conditions, and how they'll actually proceed once inside your facility. This manual, used by OSHA, gives you insight into OSHA's views on abatement, fatality/catastrophe investigations, citations, imminent danger investigations, penalties, construction inspections, review commission, and federal agency inspections.

A layman's guide introducing wetlands ecology and law through a thorough discussion of the permit process. Attempting to unite the interests of developers, ecologies, and attorneys, the manual provides important discussions in wetland classification systems, determinations, and delineations and more.

Written for both paid and volunteer emergency managers, Essentials in Emergency Management examines why preparing a basic emergency plan, or "all hazards" plan, improves a community's ability to respond effectively in an emergency situation and provides recommendations and general guidance for creating an emergency response plan.

Identifies and fulfils the federal environmental requirements for your construction and development projects. This book features seven checklists to help you evaluate your compliance status through three stages of your project - pre-bid, pre-construction, and construction and a sample construction stormwater pollution prevention plan.