Risk-reduction methods for occupational safety and health / Roger C. Jensen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Background -- Contributions to occupational safety and health -- Key terms and concepts -- Mental skills for OSH professionals -- Part II: Analysis methods -- Analyzing jobs and tasks -- Using risk-assessment methods -- Constructing fault trees -- Analyzing fault trees -- Other useful analysis methods -- Part III: Programmatic methods for managing risk -- Managing OSH programs -- Broadly applicable programs and practices -- Incident investigation programs -- Human error reduction -- Risk-reduction strategies -- Part IV: Risk reduction for energy sources -- Kinetic energy hazards -- Electrical energy hazards -- Acoustic energy and vibration hazards -- Thermal hazards: heat and cold -- Fire hazards -- Explosion hazards -- Pressure hazards -- Hazards of electromagnetic energies -- Hazards of severe weather and geologic events -- Part V: Risk reduction for other than energy sources -- Workplace conditions -- Chemical substances -- Biological sources -- Musculoskeletal stressors -- Violent actions of people.

"This book covers system safety methods related to occupational health and safety, for anticipating hazards, risk-reduction strategies for hazards processes, and making sure workers' tasks correspond to human capabilities. The second edition includes more content on methods for reducing risks, citations of recent research, and deeper coverage of OSH-relevant concepts, theories, and models. Suitable for worldwide applications, the text explains several analysis methods from the field of system safety, discusses management systems and common programs, and demonstrates how the thousands of rules, codes, and practices may be explained as instances of nine risk-reduction strategies"-- Provided by publisher.