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Out Of The Box: Skills For Developing Your Own Career Path
By Mark D. Hansen, P.E., CSP, CPE
In the new 2010 updated edition of Out of the Box, former ASSE President Mark Hansen focuses on the personal and professional skills in demand among SH&E professionals. As with the best career advice, Mark’s insights and shared experiences will make the reader more aware of his or her strengths and weaknesses and as well as others’ perceptions. Mr. Hansen makes the case for everyone developing and maintaining a five-year career plan. With candor and, occasionally, self-deprecating humor he provides insights on how to recognize and even create opportunities that lead to personal and professional satisfaction and for career advancement. Mark also provides a “360” view of the impact SH&E decisions can have on a company’s bottom line, and how to improve that impact. Whether you are looking for a safety, health or environmental position, feeling insecure and worried you might be let go, or have reached a career dead end and want to advance, Out of the Box, will provide fresh insights and perspectives to guide you on your own career path. Available in eBook formats.
ASSE Refresher Guide for the Board of Certified Safety Professionals Safety Fundamentals Examination.
Edited By Dave Langlois, CSP, H.R. Kavianian, Ph.D., CSP
The new edition of ASSE’s respected Refresher Guide for the Board of Certified Professionals Safety Fundamentals Examination has been completely updated and revised. Volume 1 was edited by Dave Langlois, CSP, who been an ASSE instructor of ASP and CSP Exam preparation courses for many years. The first volume provides in-depth information in all four ASP Exam Domains and topic areas. The expanded edition also includes chapter-level presentations of both probability and statistics. Volume 2, written by Hamid Kavianian, Ph.D., CSP, a professor at Cal State—Long Beach, contains multiple choice questions, answers, and for computational problems, worked solutions in all ASP Exam Domains/topics. It has been completely revised to reflect the many changes in the current Safety Fundamentals Examination.
Applied Mathematics for the Safety Professional: Tips, Tools, and Techniques to Solve Everyday Problems
Edited by Glenn Young
Applied Mathematics for Safety Professionals: Tips, Tools and Techniques to Solve Everyday Problems is a reference that safety and health professionals can turn to for time-saving solutions to complex problems.
Safety and health professionals often face questions such as:
- Is this electrical lighting circuit overloaded?
- What rigging is needed to safely lift this load?
- Do the fugitive emissions from this equipment exceed the PEL?
- What hearing protection is required for this job?
- Is this instrument unreliable, based on its calibration history?
- How many cool-down breaks do our workers inside this hot vessel need?
This book addresses all of these questions and more.
Safety Metrics: Tools and Techniques for Measuring Safety Performance, 2nd Edition
By Christopher Janicak
This practical guide and popular reference helps you evaluate the efficiency of your company's current safety and health processes and make fact-based decisions that continually improve overall performance. Newly updated, this edition now also shows you how to incorporate safety management system components into your safety performance program and provides you with additional techniques for analyzing safety performance data. To help you develop an effective safety metrics program, the author includes both an overview of safety metrics, data collection, and analysis and a set of detailed procedures for collecting data, analyzing it, and presenting it.
Safety Manager's Guide to Office Ergonomics
By Craig Chasen
Safety Manager’s Guide to Office Ergonomics offers easy-to-follow, non-technical advice that helps you prevent on-the-job injury. You’ll learn how to create comfortable, productive working environments, as well as resolve employee discomfort before it becomes a debilitating injury. This book guides you through the ergonomic evaluation process and then logically organizes employee discomfort by the body part affected. Using his own ergonomic evaluations as case studies, the author shows how employees express a particular discomfort and visualize the posture and workstation setup that caused or contributed to the complaint. Each case ends with easy-to-implement solutions for resolve the discomfort. Because ergonomic solutions are specific to an individual’s size, work activities and workstation configuration, the author provides several scenarios for each area of discomfort, helping you tailor your solution to the specific needs of the employee. The book helps you evaluate and purchase office equipment that enables employees to work as comfortably and productively as possible.
Know What You Don't Know
by Michael A. Roberto
Best-selling author Michael Roberto shows leaders how to go beyond mere “problem solving” to uncover and address emerging problems while they’re still manageable–before they mushroom into disaster! Roberto first identifies the diverse, sometimes surprising reasons why problems typically fester in the shadows, ignored and unaddressed. Next, he systematically introduces seven powerful solutions. You’ll discover how to become a business “anthropologist,” observing how your employees, customers, and suppliers actually behave, not just how they’re “supposed” to behave.
Risk Communication: A Handbook for Communicating Environmental, Safety, and Health Risks, 4th Edition
by Regina E. Lundgren, Andrea H. McMakin
Risk Communication: A Handbook for Communicating Environmental, Safety, and Health Risks has been a trusted compendium of strategies and guidance for effectively conveying risk information. Managers, scientists, engineers, students, communication specialists, healthcare professionals, agency representatives, and consultants in more than twenty countries have benefited from its contemporary, practical advice on what to do and what to avoid for successful risk communication.
Now in its Fourth Edition, the handbook has been updated with expanded coverage of laws, approaches, messages, and technology-based applications such as social media, as well as all-new information on international risk communication.
Hazard Recognition and Control in Institutional Settings
A Guide for Hospitals, Universities and Nursing Homes
George Byrns, Ph.D., MPH, CIH, Editor
This books is a practical guide for professionals and a text for EH&S university students who are interested in professional practice in institutions. While several chapters focus on hospitals, most of the chapters discuss topics common to all three types of institutions in the title. The expert contributors provide a framework for analyzing and controlling any hazard. Questions and exercises were written to illustrate “real world” applications. An instructor’s guide is available.
The Safety Professionals Handbook
Joel M. Haight, Editor
- 1,000 ASSE members contributed
- 300 Authors, reviewers, editors and administrators collaborated
- 80 Chapters
- 12 Topic Areas
- 1 Book for every Safety Professional!
NEW! - 2009 Professional Development Conference Proceedings
CD-ROM
Over 150 papers presented at ASSE’s national conference, held in San Antonio on June 28 - July 1, 2009. A wide range of topics is included, from career development and training to fleet safety, construction, healthcare and biotechnology, as well as the complete PowerPoint presentations for the 6 “Fundamentals of Safety and Health Programs” sessions. Topics include: EHS metric formation, cognitive ergonomics and the older worker, safety in non-English speaking work environments, playground safety, fundamentals of fire protection, construction mentoring for new workers, eco-efficiency and corporate sustainability, and global safety and health.
All presentations are in pdf format and the cd has been completely indexed, allowing full word search of all papers. All presentations may be downloaded for noncommercial use in company newsletters or bulletins, with attribution.
Purchase this CD-ROM from ASSE
Productive Safety Management
By Tania Mol
Unlike most books on this subject, Productive Safety Management, described in this book, integrates occupational health and safety, human resource management, environmental management, and engineering to provide a whole-business approach to effective safety management.
The book helps companies to reduce and manage risk by providing, analysing and improving systems in place within the company. It also looks at how external factors can affect company decision making and provides a tool to make sure that a health and safety management system is strategically aligned, appropriately resourced, and that it maximises employee commitment. Chapters on human resource management explore cultural issues and explain how to gain commitment to company objectives.
Advanced Safety Management: Focusing on Z10 and Serious Injury Prevention
By Fred A. Manuele, PE, CSP
The ANSI/AIHA Z10 Standard. "Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems" which was approved in July 2005 focuses on reducing hazards, the risks that derive from hazards, safety management systems and process deficiencies, and on identifying opportunities for improvement. Mr. Manuele not only examines the Standard in detail in the relation to other Standards, best practices, and important publications in the field. The author focuses on the following provisions of the standard in detail:
- Risk assessment and prioritization
- Applying a prescribed hierarchy of controls to achieve acceptable risk levels
- Safety design reviews
- Including safety requirements in procurement and contracting papers
- Management of change systems
A number of addendums are provided, including, "Legal Perspectives--ANSI Z10-2005 Standard"; "Mathematical Evaluations for Controlling Hazards," and "Management of Change Policy and Procedures."
Crisis Leadership: Planning for the Unthinkable
By Ian Mitroff, Ph.D
From product defects to environmental disasters--almost every day a new corporate crisis hits the headlines—and in most cases, the results are disastrous. According to Mitroff, this signals the need for crisis leadership. In this book, Mitroff focuses on the need to prevent a crisis before it occurs, rather than merely put the best possible spin on the aftermath. He shares the factors and forces to be considered to implement effective, proactive leadership, and shows how various corporate functions can interact to respond to crises and minimize their occurrence. In addition, he discusses the role of emotional IQ in handling, responding to and preparing for a crisis.
Investigative Photography
By John Wenzel
Competence in investigative photography is a skill necessary for the EHS professional. This book contains strategies the aspiring professional can use to develop and exercise the skills necessary to be a competent investigative photographer without having to spend years accumulating experience.
Workplace Safety: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Companies
By Dan Hopwood and Steve Thompson
If you are the safety professional in a small or midsized company, how can you make safety a priority on a very tight budget, without any of the bells and whistles that a large company or corporation has? Workplace Safety: A Guide for Small and Midsized Companies is what you need to help you to create a Workplace Safety Plan, save money on workers’ compensation insurance costs, comply with regulations, and make the workplace safer.