Operating Safely in Hazardous Environments covers the necessary concepts, details, and technical information critical to teaching and learning how to work safely. This text is ideal for training and educating populations entering a variety of hazardous environments such as HazMat waste operations, permit required confined spaces, emergency response situations, toxic material work, work at heights, and work within other immediately dangerous or hazardous areas. Students will be informed on common characteristics and operations of these environments (e.g. proper use of a respirator, or use of toxic materials monitoring equipment).
Operating Safely in Hazardous Environments offers general knowledge for safe and healthy operations, regardless of occupation or discipline. For the first time, people who work in dangerous or hazardous areas have at their fingertips the appropriate knowledge, exercises, and information for a safe working environment. After all, employees who work in these environments all utilize safety engineering practices, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment to make their work places safe.
Jones and Bartlett Publishers WorkSafe Series
Providing a safe and healthy work environment in today's complex industrial setting is not easy. Regulatory compliance is, indeed, difficult. How can your business or organization deal with all the regulations and still stay focused? With the Jones and Bartlett Publishers WorkSafe Series. The WorkSafe Series was created to help you easily and effectively provide the safest and healthiest work environment you can.
All texts in the WorkSafe Series cover:
- Public and workplace hazard detection
- Identification
- Mitigation
- Operations in these dangerous environments