The book is designed to help trainers design and deliver health and safety training in a fun and high-impact way, such that trainees engage with the subject and remember how to apply it in the work environment. It will be useful for managers, trainers, professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, and occupational health and safety. The text comprehensively explains the effect of the brain on learning and then develops the training processes from training needs analysis all the way through effective training techniques and ending with competence assurance. The unique approach of the book is that Part II provides a range of 30 tried and tested original resource ideas to make health and safety training effective and memorable. It will be a valuable text for professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, and occupation health and safety. Provides practical and tested solutions to common training problems Covers a resource section showing how to develop interesting and relevant training exercises Focuses on special needs of health and safety training Guides the reader through identifying the training need, delivering the training and finally assuring competence Designed to help trainers design and deliver health and safety training in a fun and high-impact way

The book is designed to help trainers design and deliver health and safety training in a fun and high-impact way, such that trainees engage with the subject and remember how to apply it in the work environment. It will be useful for managers, trainers, professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, and occupational health and safety. The text comprehensively explains the effect of the brain on learning and then develops the training processes from training needs analysis all the way through effective training techniques and ending with competence assurance. The unique approach of the book is that Part II provides a range of 30 tried and tested original resource ideas to make health and safety training effective and memorable. It will be a valuable text for professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, and occupation health and safety. Provides practical and tested solutions to common training problems Covers a resource section showing how to develop interesting and relevant training exercises Focuses on special needs of health and safety training Guides the reader through identifying the training need, delivering the training and finally assuring competence Designed to help trainers design and deliver health and safety training in a fun and high-impact way

This new edition builds on the success of the first edition. It has been enhanced to embrace new topics including Due Dilgence, EHS Auditing, Process Safety, Auditing, and a chapter summarizing auditing with the relevant ISO standards. The rest of the book has been updated to fit with the guidance and requirements set out with the changes in the ISO standards. The goal of this book remains the same, to provide a "down to earth" guidance for managers and specialists in organizations who are committed to improving their safety, health and environmental performance, but are not sure where to start or do not wish to employ consultants to do this for them. They do it themselves using this book.

Electronic software and additional materials available upon request.

Features

Integrates the concepts of safety health and environmental auditing into a common approach of "loss prevention"

Provides an audit protocol for 60 aspects of safety, health, and environmental management

Presents a summary of the requirements of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 to auditing

Introduces the novel and unique concept of Auditing Convergence

Offers a simple auditing software (The Plaudit II audit process) in an electronic program which no other book on this topic can offer

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Author

Chapter 1 Elements of a Good Safety, Health and Environmental System

Chapter 2 Management Systems

Chapter 3 Auditing: The Principles

Chapter 4 What Makes a Good Auditor?

Chapter 5 The Standard or Requirement

Chapter 6 Preparation

Chapter 7 Protocols and Checklists

Chapter 8 The Entry Meeting

Chapter 9 Area Familiarisation

Chapter 10 Audit Observation Skills

Chapter 11 The Formal Discussion

Chapter 12 The Informal Discussion

Chapter 13 Statistical Significance

Chapter 14 The Importance of Verification and the Audit Trail

Chapter 15 Conformity

Chapter 16 Documentary Review

Chapter 17 Convergence

Chapter 18 The Exit Meeting

Chapter 19 Audit Uniformity and Credibility

Chapter 20 Auditor Training

Chapter 21 Managing Auditee Expectations

Chapter 22 Auditing and Its Relevance to Regulatory Compliance

Chapter 23 Reporting: Quantitative Assessment

Chapter 24 Reporting: Qualitative Assessment

Chapter 25 Follow-Up

Chapter 26 Choosing the Audit Process

Chapter 27 Audit Team Composition

Chapter 28 Using the Plaudit 2 Process

Chapter 29 Using the Plaudit 2 Protocol Software

Chapter 30 Process Safety Audits

Chapter 31 EHS Aspects of Due Diligence Audits

Chapter 32 International EHS Auditing Standards

Glossary

Appendix 1: Auditor Guidance

Appendix 2: Plaudit 2 Audit Protocol

Index/

Constructing Masculinity is an anthology of 21 original texts based on presentations at the Constructing Masculity conference held at the DIA Center for the Arts in New York.

Constructing Masculinities is organized into five discursive areas addressed by leading academics, social and applied scientists, legal scholars, poets, activists and cultural critics. "What is Masculinity?" questions society's normative standards of the masculine and contemplates the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes and proscriptions; "Masculinity and Representation" explores the ways in which representations of masculinity and maleness in the media and the arts produce, challenge and ultimately shape notions of the masculine; "How Science Defines Men" and "Masculinity and the Rule of Law" consider masculinity in relationship to science and law, two dominant social institutions that play a vital role in constructing stereotypes and establishing gendered power relationships; "Male Subjectivity and Responsibilty" asks how an informed and activist notion of masculinity can contribute to the political debates about identity and power.

Constructing Masculinity takes us beyond the notion of "men in feminism" to a more radical rethinking of the status of masculinity itself. Men must do more than admit their complicity in the patriarchy; they must begin to rethink the very boundaries that shape and define what it means to be a man. Conversely, women must play an important role in this reevaluation, an idea suggested by Eve KosofskySedgwick's admonition that "when something is about masculinity, it isn't always about men."' Far from being just about men, Constructing Masculinity engages, inflicts upon, and has vital meaning for all members of society.

Contributors: Stanley Aronowitz, Derrick Bell, Leo Bersani, Homi Bhabha, Marcellus Blount, Judith Butler, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Barbara Ehrenreich, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Richard Fung, Sander Gilman, Marjorie Heins, bell hooks, Wayne Koestenbaum, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Carrie Mai, Philomena Mariani, Andrew Ross, Sapphire, Paul Smith, Abagail Solomon-Godeau, Michael Taussig, Kendall Thomas, Carole Vance, Michele Wallace, Simon Watney, Patricia Williams, George Yudice

eBook available with sample pages: HB:0415910528

"Paris Peasant" (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in form--Aragon consciously avoided recognizable narration or character development--"Paris Peasant" is, in the author's words, "a mythology of the modern." The book uses the city of Paris as a stage or framework, and Aragon interweaves his text with images of related ephemera: cafe menus, maps, inscriptions on monuments and newspaper clippings. A detailed description of a Parisian arcade (nineteenth-century precursor to the mini-mall) and another of the Buttes-Chaumont park, are among the great set pieces within Aragon's swirling prose of philosophy, dream and satire. Andre Breton wrote of this work: "no one could have been a more astute detector of the unwonted in all its forms; no one else could have been carried away by such intoxicating reveries about a sort of secret life of the city. . . ."

This new edition builds on the success of the first edition. It has been enhanced to embrace new topics including Due Dilgence, EHS Auditing, Process Safety, Auditing, and a chapter summarizing auditing with the relevant ISO standards. The rest of the book has been updated to fit with the guidance and requirements set out with the changes in the ISO standards. The goal of this book remains the same, to provide a "down to earth" guidance for managers and specialists in organizations who are committed to improving their safety, health and environmental performance, but are not sure where to start or do not wish to employ consultants to do this for them. They do it themselves using this book.

Electronic software and additional materials available upon request.

Features

Integrates the concepts of safety health and environmental auditing into a common approach of "loss prevention"

Provides an audit protocol for 60 aspects of safety, health, and environmental management

Presents a summary of the requirements of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 to auditing

Introduces the novel and unique concept of Auditing Convergence

Offers a simple auditing software (The Plaudit II audit process) in an electronic program which no other book on this topic can offer

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Author

Chapter 1 Elements of a Good Safety, Health and Environmental System

Chapter 2 Management Systems

Chapter 3 Auditing: The Principles

Chapter 4 What Makes a Good Auditor?

Chapter 5 The Standard or Requirement

Chapter 6 Preparation

Chapter 7 Protocols and Checklists

Chapter 8 The Entry Meeting

Chapter 9 Area Familiarisation

Chapter 10 Audit Observation Skills

Chapter 11 The Formal Discussion

Chapter 12 The Informal Discussion

Chapter 13 Statistical Significance

Chapter 14 The Importance of Verification and the Audit Trail

Chapter 15 Conformity

Chapter 16 Documentary Review

Chapter 17 Convergence

Chapter 18 The Exit Meeting

Chapter 19 Audit Uniformity and Credibility

Chapter 20 Auditor Training

Chapter 21 Managing Auditee Expectations

Chapter 22 Auditing and Its Relevance to Regulatory Compliance

Chapter 23 Reporting: Quantitative Assessment

Chapter 24 Reporting: Qualitative Assessment

Chapter 25 Follow-Up

Chapter 26 Choosing the Audit Process

Chapter 27 Audit Team Composition

Chapter 28 Using the Plaudit 2 Process

Chapter 29 Using the Plaudit 2 Protocol Software

Chapter 30 Process Safety Audits

Chapter 31 EHS Aspects of Due Diligence Audits

Chapter 32 International EHS Auditing Standards

Glossary

Appendix 1: Auditor Guidance

Appendix 2: Plaudit 2 Audit Protocol

Index/