Environmental Health & Safety Books

New and Published Books

1. Ecological Public Health

   Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health

   By Geof Rayner, Tim Lang

   What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles. This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Public Safety and Risk Assessment

   Improving Decision Making

   By David J. Ball, Laurence Ball-King

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new phenomenon. Over the past decade health and safety has become a major issue of public interest. There are countless stories of health and safety...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
3. Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health

   20th Edition

   Edited by Stephen Battersby

   Clay’s Handbook of Environmental Health, since its first publication in 1933, has provided a definitive guide for the environmental health practitioner or reference for the consultant or student. This twentieth edition continues as a first point of reference, reviewing the core principles,...

   Published July 7th 2011 by Routledge
4. Environmental Health Procedures

   7th Edition

   By W Basset

   This is an essential reference source, providing an accessible entry into enforcement procedures for the complex body of UK environmental health law. The main legal procedures used in the environmental health field are presented as flow charts supported by explanatory text. All chapters are...

   Published March 28th 2007 by Routledge
5. Health & Safety, Environment and Quality Audits

   By Stephen Asbury, Peter Ashwell

   Internal Auditing is an essential tool for managing compliance with health and safety, environmental safety and quality standards. Increasingly these three areas are audited by the same professionals to proliferating standards (e.g. OHSAS 18001 for health and safety, ISO 9001 for quality, ISO 14001...

   Published December 17th 2006 by Routledge
6. Tolley's Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Management

   3rd Edition

   Edited by Tony Moore, Raj Lakha

   The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 modernised the UK’s approach to disaster and emergency management, taking into account the kinds of threats the country faces in the 21st century, including terrorist threats and threats to the environment. This third edition of the Tolley’s Handbook of Disaster and...

   Published October 11th 2006 by Routledge
7. Safety with Machinery

   2nd Edition

   By John Ridley, Dick Pearce

   John Ridley and Dick Pearce, both recognized specialists in machinery safety, guide the reader through the various standards, regulations and best practices relating to the safe design and use of machinery and show which standard is relevant for which type of machine. Safety with Machinery provides...

   Published December 11th 2005 by Routledge
8. Stress at Work

   By Jeremy Stranks

   Work-related stress and resulting sickness absence costs the UK economy about £3.7 billion every year (HSE research). In this jargon-free guide, Jeremy Stranks explains what stress is and what causes it, how people respond to stress and cope with it, how stress can be evaluated and managed and what...

   Published March 14th 2005 by Routledge
9. Managing Noise and Vibration at Work

   By Tim South

   New EU Physical Agents Directives on Noise and Vibration will be incorporated into UK law by February 2006. Explicit action levels for vibration will be introduced, while the action levels for noise will be drastically cut. In order to comply with these Directives, companies need to assess noise...

   Published August 20th 2004 by Routledge
10. Dictionary of Environmental Health

    By David Worthington

    Series: Clay’s Library of Health and the Environment

    Coming from the people who brought you Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health, the Dictionary of Environmental Health will provide a one stop reference to over 3,000 common, and not so common terms, concepts, abbreviations, acronyms and a wealth of supporting data no longer found in most reference...

    Published November 27th 2002 by Routledge