by Jamie Knight and Carla Nassar (2013)
"HR managers are responsible for mitigating the costs resulting from accidents, injuries and illnesses in the workplace. In order to manage and create effective organizational health and safety programs, they need to understand the employer's obligations under three major pieces of health and safety legislation in the workplace. This book deals with the employer's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act (return to work) and the Criminal Code amendments under Bill C-45 (personal liability for criminal negligence resulting in the death/injury of employees). The authors provide expert commentary and practical compliance solutions including sample policies and documents, checklists and an index to make the process of gathering health and safety information as quick and straightforward as possible. New in this edition: criminal prosecutions for health and safety violations; changes to hazardous materials regulations; updated examples of prosecutions under OHSA; changes to an employer's duty to report critical injuries and deaths; evolution of the law of workplace harassment and workplace violence."--Publisher's website.
Paul Chadder, Mary Duncan, Penny Heighway
Every workplace has to comply with an extensive range of health and safety rules and regulations. Revised and expanded into greater detail, this is a distillation of the basics, from which business owners and managers will learn what their obligations are.
Nicholas A. Ashford, Charles C. Caldart
"Technology, Law, and the Working Environment provides a thorough discussion of the legal issues relevant to technology-related problems in the workplace. It includes detailed treatment of worker health and safety, toxic substances regulations, technology bargaining, economic issues, and the right to know."--BOOK JACKET.
Michael Tooma
"This book challenges the standard approach to occupational health and safety. It proposes a reconsideration of safety risks in an integrated matrix which includes security and environmental risks. This approach recognises the common grounding in risk management that underlies the methodology of practice in Safety, Security, Health and Environment areas and the similarity in legislative treatment by all jurisdictions in Australia. It then outlines the general duties, personal liability and explores a framework for safety security health and environmental management. The contents include: Occupational safety law, comprehensive and national in approach. Occupational security law, discusses the emerging discipline of security law, including major hazard facilities and security plans, ports, airports and security requirements, emergency preparedness. Security and anti-terrorism laws as they apply to business. Occupational health law includes material on asbestos law, synthetic fibres, nanoparticles, noise management, stress, depression and mental health Environmental and sustainability law takes account of environmental law affecting the workplace, nationally including pollution law and environmental sustainability. Safety, Security, Health and Environment Risk Management, Management systems and Performance measurement. Each chapter contains extensive references to relevant legislation, with case summaries extracted to illustrate principles along with discussion of relevant literature and expert commentary"--Publisher.
Roger L. Brauer
The essential guide to blending safety and health with economical engineering Over time, the role of the engineer has evolved into a complex combination of duties and responsibilities. Modern engineers are required not only to create products and environments, but to make them safe and economical as well. Safety and Health for Engineers, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide that helps engineers reconcile safety and economic concerns using the latest cost-effective methods of ensuring safety in all facets of their work. It addresses the fundamentals of safety, legal aspects, hazard recognition, the human element of safety, and techniques for managing safety in engineering decisions. Like its successful predecessor, this Second Edition contains a broad range of topics and examples, detailed references to information and standards, real-world application exercises, and a significant bibliography of books for each chapter. Inside this ...