Nearly all our safety data collection and reporting systems are backward-looking: incident reports; dashboards; compliance monitoring systems, and so on. This book shows how we can use safety data in a forward-looking, predictive sense. Predictive Safety Analytics: Reducing Risk through Modeling and Machine Learning contains real use cases where organizations have reduced incidents by employing predictive analytics to foresee and mitigate future risks. It discusses how Predictive Safety Analytics is an opportunity to break through the plateau problem where safety rate improvements have stagnated in many organizations. The book presents how the use of data, coupled with advanced analytical techniques, including machine learning, has become a proven and successful innovation. Emphasis is placed on how the book can “meet you where you are” by illuminating a path to get there, starting with simple data the organization likely already has. A highlight of the book is the real examples and case studies that will assist in generating thoughts and ideas for what might work for individual readers and how they can adapt the information to their particular situations. The book is written for professionals and researchers in system reliability, risk and safety assessment, quality control, operational managers in selected industries, data scientists, and ML engineers. Students taking courses in these areas will also find this book of interest.

The law of torts is concerned with the secondary obligations generated by the infringement of primary rights. This work seeks to show that this apparently simple proposition enables us to understand the law of torts as found in the common law. Using primarily English materials, but drawing heavily upon the law of other common law jurisdictions, Stevens seeks to give an account of the law of torts which relies upon the core material familiar to most students and practitioners with a grasp of the law of torts. This material is drawn together in support of a single argument in a provocative and accessible style, and puts forward a new theoretical model for analysing the law of torts, providing an overarching framework for radically reconceiving the subject.

In The Laws of Restitution, Robert Stevens shows that there is no unified law of restitution or unjust enrichment. Instead, there are seven or eight different kinds of private law claim, depending on how you count them, which have nothing important in common one with another that have been grouped together by commentators. Few of these claims have anything to do with enrichment, and what is restituted differs between them. Like all private law claims, those gathered here concern (in)justice between individuals, but they have no further unity. Many of them are not based upon an agreement or a wrong, but that negative feature has no utility. "Restitution" or "unjust enrichment' should cease to be discussed as unified areas of law. With close attention to caselaw and legislation, the work identifies and describes the various reasons for "restitution" that any properly constructed system of private law ought to recognise. It explains how the law of restitution relates to, and is bound up with, contract, torts, equity, and property law.

This volume analyzes the legal and practical issues that arise in cross-border transactions involving the taking and enforcement of security over movable and intangible property. Having analyzed the domestic law of security in the UK, US, France and Germany, it then focuses upon the private international law and insolvency law issues. Contributions come from leading legal, insolvency and banking specialists drawn from the relevant jurisdictions, providing a comparative perspective on each topic discussed. Coverage includes a focused, practical, case-study plus input from banking and insolvency professionals.

This monograph contends that the concept of the independence of the judiciary has not been seriously analyzed in England and examines it through the perceptions of the Lord Chancellor's Office. The Lord Chancellor's Office was established in 1880 as the executive arm of the Lord Chancellor, who is the presiding judge of England, a member of the Cabinet, Speaker of the House of Lords and also head of an executive department - his own office. Working from the records of the Lord Chancellor's Office, the author takes the reader through a number of related areas: the appointment of judges and the attempt to remove them the disciplining of judges their role in the Courts their executive responsibilities, particularly towards the commissions and committees they chair relations with Parliament and the Civil Service and the role of the English Judges in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. This work also examines the battles within and around the judiciary over the last 30 years, and places them in the broader context of the separation of powers, the legal system and the politics of the period.

"iSSUES...," is a gritty, IN YOUR FACE psychological thriller that engulfs the battle between the conscious and subconscious. The question is not who is pulling the strings or who is going to die next, but who is really in control, the conscience or subconscious? Set in Boston, MA "iSSUES..." is about a woman hailed from a wealthy family who enjoys her independence and work as a Psychiatrist. Dr. Monica "Reese" Withers always had the best of everything money can buy and a perfect marriage...so she thought. During an accident that may have caused severe head trauma, Reese unknowingly unleashes her alter ego Rita, a killer who is vying for an opportunity to make itself known. Can a wealthy, upstanding member of the community have the tendencies to commit cold- blooded murder without evening knowing it?

The law of torts is concerned with the secondary obligations generated by the infringement of primary rights. This work seeks to show that this apparently simple proposition enables us to understand the law of torts as found in the common law.
Using primarily English materials, but drawing heavily upon the law of other common law jurisdictions, Stevens seeks to give an account of the law of torts which relies upon the core material familiar to most students and practitioners with a grasp of the law of torts. This material is drawn together in support of a single argument in a provocative and accessible style, and puts forward a new theoretical model for analyzing the law of torts, providing an overarching framework for radically re-conceiving the subject.

This is a book of poems put into verse from memories and events starting in the 1930's through the war years and beyond. There are many stories that will take you back to the slums of Liverpool from walking the streets in bare feet or clogs, wearing donated clothes and money from the Public Assistance Committee to hunting for Jam Jars to get into the cinema. Stories of a child trying to help his parents with a few pennies and being evacuated during the war. Some experiences such as travelling on Milk trains and carts across country to attend a fathers funeral and missing it by minutes cannot be put into words. The poems take the experience of a young and innocent family landing in the continent of Africa, the wonders and challenges that presented especially with only a few pounds in the pocket are put into a few words to transport you to another world, in another time. Topics from the freezing streets of Liverpool to the hot savannah of Africa and pounding steel mills. Also it includes modern topics such as the NHS, the virus and the climate, but there are also a few lighter things from the Bankers Cat to following the heart in the stars and the spirit of the Steam Train. Several poems will give you the feeling of a hard lived life but also show the passion and love and life itself. It is produced and mostly written when the author was in his 90's, with the help, support and guidance of his daughter taking his ideas and words and breathing eternal life of the memories into words. The opening pages start with memories of the home followed by poems in memory of two daughters that have passed in the last 4 years. Then the journey through different streets, the parents, Christmas, war and onto Africa, the climate. There are poems written and dedicated to the NHS and nurses and also of those lost at Aberfan which was written at the time and also my brother assisted at. Some poems have also been previously published as winning entries in competitions which is what inspired the author to have all published in one book.

Famous '50s/'60s mystery and suspense series hosted by the master of suspense himlsef, Alfred Hitchcock. Each 30 minute episode included opening and closing monologues by Hitchcock who would explain some aspect of the day's story in his inimitably dry, humorous monotone. Episodes included: 'Wet Saturday', 'Fog Closing In', 'De Mortis', 'Kill with Kindness', 'None Are So Blind', 'Toby', 'Alibi Me', 'Conversation Over a Corpse', 'Crack of Doom', 'Jonathan', 'A Better Bargain', 'The Rose Garden', 'Mr. Blanchard's Secret', 'John Brown's Body', 'Crackpot', 'Nightmare in 4-D', 'My Brother Richard', 'Manacled', 'Bottle of Wine', 'Malice Domestic', 'Number Twenty-Two', 'The End of Indian Summer', 'One for the Road', 'The Cream of the Jest', 'I Killed the Count (1)', 'I Killed the Count (2)', 'I Killed the Count (3)', 'One More Mile to Go', 'Vicious Circle', 'The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater', 'The Night the World Ended', 'The Hands of Mr. Ottermole', 'A Man Greatly Beloved', 'Martha Mason, Movie Star', 'The West Warlock Time Capsule', 'Father and Son', 'The Indestructible Mr. Weems', 'A Little Sleep'and 'The Dangerous People'.