Reeds Marine Surveying is aimed at students of marine surveying, professional marine surveyors, boatyard operators and technically-minded boat owners, and covers the latest marine surveying technology, including analysis of the mechanical behaviour of materials, failure analysis, stress concentration, fatigue and fracture, corrosion, wood-damaging organisms, polymer chemistry, and the composition and characteristics of common plastics, metal, alloys and composite materials.

This new edition expands its scope to include coverage of surveying topics relevant to ships and class surveying and includes more examples of common problems and the practical elements of surveying, as well as be updated throughout in line with technological developments, guidelines and best practice.

Reeds Marine Surveying has been in print for over twenty years and excellently serves the community of marine surveyors by providing technically robust presentations of this discipline. It extends the inquiry of inspection and safety beyond anecdote and into foundation principles and technologies.

This book offers a solution for the complex issue of managing occupational safety in a multi-cultural environment. In today's globalised labour market it is impossible to ignore cross-cultural implications and their impact on the health and safety regime. The research described in this book was carried out in the offshore oil and gas sector but the findings and the proposed safety model are transferable to other industries too. Cultural biases and shared beliefs have an impact on the perception of risks, and the knowledge of this correlation would give practitioners an insight into where they need to put 'safety barriers' to reduce the likelihood of an incident occurring.