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This concise, practical manual offers invaluable guidance for both
professional and lay use in determination of accidental joint
damage. The result of a California study, the original edition won
wide acceptance in many other states as well. Practical use of the
method has prompted certain modifications concerning terminology
and measurements and these improvements have been incorporated into
the Second Edition.
Examines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry,
and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculosis among black
migrant miners was hidden for over a century. South Africa's gold
mines are the largest and historically among the most profitable in
the world. Yet at what human cost? This book reveals how the mining
industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis
for almost a century and allowed miners infected with tuberculosis
to spread disease to rural communities in South Africa and to
labour-sending states. In the twentieth century, South African
mines twice faced a crisis over silicosis, which put its workers at
risk of contracting pulmonary tuberculosis, often fatal. The first
crisis, 1896-1912, saw the mining industry invest heavily in
reducing dust and South Africa became renowned for its mine safety.
The second began in 2000 with mounting scientific evidence that the
disease rate among miners is more than a hundred times higher than
officially acknowledged. The first crisis also focused upon disease
among the minority white miners: the current crisis is about black
migrant workers, and is subject to major class actions for
compensation. Jock McCulloch was a Legislative Research Specialist
for the Australian parliament and has taught at various
universities. His books include Asbestos Blues. Southern Africa
(South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana
This book provides a summary of the main obstacles for creating and
maintaining high standards of health and safety in higher education
and research organisations. The obstacles include high staff
turnover and an uncertain and constantly evolving research
environment, small groups lacking unified management structure,
deadline time pressures, restricted funding models and existing
"old school" culture. Often the Health and Safety specialists and
personnel managers in these organisations find themselves
reiterating the same information, which gets lost as soon as the
new cohort of workers arrives. Providing insight into methods of
managing health and safety, training, and supervision, which help
to build a strong and reliable health and safety system, this book
is a collection of "best practices" from experienced safety
professionals and researchers in Europe and the United States.
These experiences demonstrate how health and safety professionals
have overcome these issues and provide readers with ideas and
models they can use in their own organisations. The information
contained within is aimed at health and safety professionals and
managers in universities and research organisations conducting
scientific and engineering research with transient workers and
students worldwide.
Public safety, as well as the safety of products and services, is
of paramount importance and interest to individuals, organisations
and society. Safety successes are achieved every second, but we
take them for granted and we do not appreciate the challenges
professionals meet to make the world as safe as possible. Safety
failures are less frequent but become focal points of stakeholders
and the public with a tendency to blame and not comprehend the
context and the hard decisions professionals have to make when
balancing safety with competing goals. This edited book includes
case studies from industry practitioners exactly as they experience
them without relying on the understanding of researchers who
conduct studies and try to map the overall situation per case based
on multiple interviews, observations and questionnaires. Included
are case studies from the aviation, construction, oil and gas,
telecommunications, transportation, health and public safety
industries. They are stories told by frontline practitioners who
work to keep the public safe. In each chapter, the author, based on
his/her professional experience, shares two real cases, one
"success" and one "failure", explaining the background and
approach, and critically reflecting why his/her initiatives and
activities worked or didn't work. They are descriptive of the case,
context and tools, techniques, methods and approaches followed and
include the valuable safety lesson learned. This book is a forum
for professionals to express and share with others their knowledge
and experience usually found implicitly or hidden under formal and
informal practices.
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