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Makes me feel smarter!
I am desk jockey who does electrical design work. I have little in-the-field electrical experience. I use the NEC codes frequently to make sure what I design is code-compliant. I have a copy of the standard 1999 NEC book and found many parts of it difficult to interpret. This new "handbook" version has answered all of the questions and uncertainties I had about the code.It has an illustration and explanation for just about every question I could think of. Even when I don't need a certain thing, I have found myself leafing through the book just to learn more. Amazing.
If you hang around with fellow homeowners, there's a lot of water cooler conversation about various things, including the electrical code.This book just nails everything you ever wondered about, everything you haven't yet wondered about, and a few thousand things that you'll never need to know.Want to install a subpanel?Want to figure what gauge of cable to use to supply it?Want to know how to calculate the in^3 fill of a box?How deep to bury an underground cable?How to use raceways?That information totals about 1/4 of 1% of the contents of this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Construction    2. Construction - Electrical    3. Electric engineering    4. Fire Safety And Prevention    5. Handbooks, manuals, etc    6. Industrial Health & Safety    7. Insurance requirements    8. Law and legislation    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technical & Manufacturing Trades    11. Technology    12. Technology & Industrial Arts    13. United States    14. Electrician skills    15. Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades   

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A Must Have Practitioner's Guide to Risk Assessment
Dr. Dennis Paustenbach's second handbook on human health and ecological risk assessment further confirms his stature as one of the world's preeminent risk assessment experts and a leading authority on environmental risks and chemical hazards.His new book, which describes both the theory and practice of risk assessment across a broad spectrum regulatory and environmental disciplines, is an excellent companion to his first book in 1989, which was the first published textbook at that time dedicated to environmental risk assessment.This second book provides the scientific community and environmental policy-makers with an up-to-date single source of information about how to conduct human and ecological risk assessments.It is far and away the most comprehensive treatment of the broad multi-discipline field of environmental toxicology and risk assessment available anywhere in print.The book includes over 10,000 full literature citations, which very likely represents the most comprehensive referencing of the published literature on this subject that has ever been compiled for the field of risk assessment.The book is a valuable technical resource in any health sciences and engineering library, and a desktop how-to companion for students, environmental toxicologists and chemists, environmental risk managers and policy decision-makers.Read more

Subjects:  1. Chemistry - Industrial & Technical    2. Ecological risk assessment    3. Health Risk Assessment    4. Industrial Health & Safety    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Toxicology    9. Public health & preventive medicine    10. Risk assessment    11. Science / Chemistry / Technical & Industrial   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Engineering - Industrial    5. Industrial Health & Safety    6. Industrial Management    7. Manufacturing    8. Office Automation    9. Production & Operations Management    10. Production management    11. Total quality management    12. Business & Management   

Subjects:  1. Auditing - General    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Environmental Engineering & Technology    4. Environmental Science    5. Environmental auditing    6. Industrial Health & Safety    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. United States    10. Management accounting    11. Non-Classifiable    12. Occupational / industrial health & safety   

Subjects:  1. Clean rooms    2. Engineering - Industrial    3. Environmental Engineering & Technology    4. Indoor Air Quality    5. Industrial Health & Safety    6. Industrial Technology    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Engineering: general    11. Pharmacy / dispensing    12. Technology / Engineering / Electrical   

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Practical and well grounded in the literature -- a must own
This book is a "must own" for anyone who is interested in conveying risk information to members of the public.It lays out a cohert framework -- and more or less step-by-step instructions -- for identifying what information will be of greatest value to members of a target audience.It is the most useful book I have found thus far to guide my efforts to communicate complex health information to members of various publics. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Development - Sustainable Development    3. General    4. Industrial Health & Safety    5. Psychology    6. Research & Methodology    7. Risk communication    8. Technology    9. Communication Studies    10. Psychological methodology    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / General    12. Public health & preventive medicine   

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Lessons forgotten or never taught
I found this book very informative, ignore Safety-Command's review. I attended David Dodson's 16 hour class during the FDIC conference in Indianapolis in 2005. The class was an overview of the book and the more important skill of learning to read smoke. Mr. Dodson also taught an Art of Reading Smoke class that was attended by over 1,000 people. This book is the basis for the FDSOA certification test. It is a must read for any Department who has not established procedures for implementing a scene safety officer. Read and learn. The book is simplified to better understand and function in the role of a Safety Officer.

A disservice to fire fighters
The lessons presented by Dodson are grossly oversimplified and the book is an injustice to fire fighters who use it. In addition, it is only written to an eighth grade level. Save your money and maybe your life.

well presented to the point text
The author documents the duties and responsibilities of theincident scene safety officer . in an understandable way , Great book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Fire Science    3. Fire extinction    4. Fire fighters    5. Industrial Health & Safety    6. Safety engineers    7. Safety measures    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Engineering: general    12. Mathematics and Science    13. Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades   

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Collection of facts on airports around the world
Very well written text book, that has a collection of facts on various airports around the world. Mainly directed to students and professors in Europe and other countries where metric is a standard. I wish the authors have published two versions, one in feet-inches and other in metric. It is a good text for teachers in the undergraduate class, for teaching the basic concept of an airport system and how to manage and operate it. Reference to FAA and ICAO documents is good. I will recommend this text to practicing engineers who can get a grip on the concept of financial management and control in an airport system.

Aviation Managers must read...
Mr. de Neufville and Professor Amedeo Odoni have produced a must read guide to understand where the nexus of theory and the reality of aviation systems come together. Quite thorough and a good read, all the while being an excellent guide to a multitude of topics. Well Done!

Must reading for airport planning practitioners and academic
Professors de Neufville and Odoni use real world examples to show the changing context of airport planning and design. No longer limited to technical aspects, airport planners and designers must cultivate new and critical thinking on such issues as profitability, revenues, and users services. Influences such as airline deregulation, airport and airline privatization, a global airport industry, and advance technology require this new approach. Based on their teaching at MIT and consulting experience with airports and civil aviation organizations worldwide they provide knowledgeable guidance to a wide audience.
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Subjects:  1. Airport Design    2. Airport Management    3. Airports    4. Aviation - Commercial    5. Aviation - General    6. Design and construction    7. Engineering - Civil    8. General    9. Industrial Health & Safety    10. Management    11. Planning    12. Reference    13. Transportation    14. Aerospace & air transport industries    15. Aerospace & aviation technology    16. Architecture / Planning    17. Intelligent & automated transport system technology    18. Technology   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Emergency management    5. Government - State & Provincial    6. Handbooks, manuals, etc    7. Industrial Health & Safety    8. Leadership    9. Management - General    10. Public Affairs & Administration    11. United States    12. Emergency services    13. Personal & public health    14. Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration   

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A very good book
This book is a very good investment! I'm using this book for my course of safety management and it's giving to me a lot of new ideas and examples.

Best job investment I have ever made
This is a must book to anyone that is frustrated with injury rates. Once I picked the book up I couldn't put it down. It not only explains things well but gives examples, charts and figures to refer back to. I can't wait to get the new program going at work.

An Overview of BBS
I use the book for my course in Behavioral safety at Western Michigan University, and I recommend it.Strengths: broad coverage of issues invoved in BBS; examples of it practice; some coverage of scientificprinciples behind the techniques.Weaknesses:It could be organized tomake it more user-friendly; written at a rather advanced level; not a verygood "how-to" book (T. McSween's "The Values-Based SafetyProcess" book is better at "how to" - I also use that one.) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Industrial Health & Safety    3. Industrial safety    4. Management    5. Management - General    6. Organizational behavior    7. Psychological aspects    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Occupational / industrial health & safety    11. Technology / General   

Subjects:  1. Environmental Engineering & Technology    2. Environmental Science    3. Health & Fitness    4. Health Care Issues    5. Industrial Health & Safety    6. Medical    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Public Health    9. Personal & public health    10. Science / Environmental Science    11. Social impact of environmental issues   

Subjects:  1. Building    2. Building Security    3. Construction - General    4. Dictionaries    5. Industrial Health & Safety    6. Reference    7. Safety measures    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Occupational / industrial health & safety    11. Security & fire alarm systems    12. Technology / Industrial Health & Safety   

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Provides the Basic Theories
There has always been an interface between man and machine. In the earliest cave man days it was learned that fastening a rock to the end of a stick made a club, or if sharpened an axe. But it is only in the 1900's that the man machine interface began to be really complex. And it was only in the late 1900's that serious work began on how best to handle this interface.
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Subjects:  1. Computer Engineering    2. Engineering - Industrial    3. Human-machine systems    4. Industrial Design - General    5. Industrial Health & Safety    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Mechanical engineering    10. Technology / Industrial Health & Safety   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Facility Management    5. Industrial Health & Safety    6. Industrial Management    7. Manufacturing    8. Office Automation    9. Production & Operations Management    10. Production control    11. Production engineering    12. Production management    13. Production planning    14. Production & quality control management   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Business/Economics    3. Corporations    4. Facility Management    5. Industrial Health & Safety    6. Information Management    7. Management    8. Private security services    9. Production & Operations Management    10. Security measures    11. Technology    12. Business & Economics / Industrial Management    13. Data security & data encryption    14. Management & management techniques   

Subjects:  1. Chemical plants    2. Industrial Health & Safety    3. Industrial safety    4. Law and legislation    5. Safety measures    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. United States    10. Occupational / industrial health & safety    11. Technology / Industrial Health & Safety   

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Building Construction    3. Construction - General    4. Design & Drafting    5. Design and construction    6. Health Care Issues    7. Industrial Health & Safety    8. Laboratories    9. Pollution (Health Aspects)    10. Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings    11. Safety measures    12. Science/Mathematics    13. Technology    14. Occupational / industrial health & safety    15. Science / Chemistry / General    16. Scientific equipment & techniques, laboratory equipment   

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Nice concise introduction to system safety
This text provides a good, high-level introduction to common (and not so common) system safety analysis techniques.This is the major strength of the book and will provide a great deal of insight into the activities that a principle for safety may expect on a MIL-STD-882 compliant project. I say "may" because 882 is so nebulous with respect to establishing what exactly is required of a developer and PFS are so gun shy to place requirements on industry since Acquisition Reform neutered most of the Defense regulatory authorities back in 2000.
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Subjects:  1. Data processing    2. Industrial Health & Safety    3. Industrial safety    4. Science/Mathematics    5. System safety    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Chemistry    9. Technology / Industrial Health & Safety   

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Not just technical info
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.Although I picked it up for its scientific information, Ramsey and Modarres have also included some of the intrigue that we all know exists within the industry.I found the geo-political and cross-industrial information insightful.I'd love to see more on this... like, "who wants to kill off the nuclear power industry?And why?"

Excellent Introduction To Nuclear Safety
"Commercial Nuclear Power" is a must-read book for anyone with an interest in nuclear energy specifically, or with electricity production and consumption generally. The book is fairly technical, and would be most easily understood by people with some basic knowledge of chemistry, physics, or engineering; having said that, the authors are very good at explaining difficult ideas from general concept to specific application, which makes the book comprehensible to an average reader. One thing that makes the book easier to digest is the lack of higher math, which is frequently where this subject can bog down for non-professionals.
Nuclear Energy - From Jane Fonda to Reality
This book, though somewhat technical, is a primer in the problems and great potential of nuclear power. It dissolves the fog of "junk science" perpetuated by some environmentalist groups and the Press in particular. A must read if you want to have an informed, accurate opinion as a 21st century power consumer. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Environmental Science    2. Environmental Studies    3. Industrial Health & Safety    4. Nuclear Energy    5. Nuclear Plant Safety    6. Safety    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. Charles B. Ramsey    10. Management of land & natural resources    11. Nuclear power industries    12. Occupational / industrial health & safety    13. Petroleum & oil industries    14. Science / General   

Subjects:  1. Industrial Health & Safety    2. Industrial safety    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Technology    5. Technology & Industrial Arts    6. Engineering: general    7. Occupational / industrial health & safety    8. Technology / Industrial Health & Safety