Risk Assessment Books

New and Published Books

1. Bayesian Methods in Health Economics

   By Gianluca Baio

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

   Health economics is concerned with the study of the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions. This book provides an overview of Bayesian methods for the analysis of health economic data. After an introduction to the basic economic concepts and methods of evaluation, it presents Bayesian...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
2. Emerging Technologies in Non-Destructive Testing V

   Edited by Alkiviadis S. Paipetis, Theodore E. Matikas, Dimitrios G. Aggelis, Danny Van Hemelrijck

   Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methods have dominated most of the fields of applied research and technology over the last twenty years. These techniques provide information on the functional efficiency of materials and structures without causing any structural impact on the structure itself....

   Published January 25th 2012 by CRC Press
3. 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
4. Introduction to Fire Safety Management

   By Andrew Furness, Martin Muckett

   Andrew Furness and Martin Muckett give an introduction to all areas of fire safety management, including the legal framework, causes and prevention of fire and explosions, fire protection measures, fire risk assessment, and fire investigation. Fire safety is not treated as an isolated area but...

   Published September 16th 2007 by Routledge
5. Tolley's Workplace Accident Handbook

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Mark Tyler

   Occupational safety and health management theory is now rightly focused on pro-activity, risk assessment and management. But it remains important that organizations know what they need to do when accidents happen, both to comply with legislation and to extract all the information from the incident...

   Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Risk Analysis in Building Fire Safety Engineering

   By A. Hasofer, V.R. Beck, I.D. Bennetts

   This book bridges the gap between risk assessment and fire safety engineering like few other resources. As all required knowledge for Probability and Statistics for Fire Engineering is included in the preliminary chapters, the book is suitable for teaching Fire Engineering components in a wide...

   Published November 22nd 2006 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Tolley's Practical Risk Assessment Handbook

   5th Edition

   By Mike Bateman

   Risk assessment has become the backbone of health and safety management in the UK and elsewhere. Employers have a legal duty to prove that risk assessments have been carried out and to ensure that appropriate precautions have been implemented.Mike Bateman demystifies the risk assessment process and...

   Published August 2nd 2006 by Routledge
10. 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