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Title 5 presents the rules and regulations governing civil service and other employees of the executive branch departments and agencies. The 77 chapters cover the scope of procedures by organizational entity. Additions and revisions to this section of the code are posted annually by January. Publication follows within six months.

The newly revised Environmental Statutes, 2007 Edition, provides a convenient collection of all 12 statutes as they appear in the U.S. Code. Each section of this expanded reference includes the complete and exact text of the statutes, including amendments by the 109th Congress.

This book combines two booklets from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on asbestos and lead in the construction industry and summarizes essential compliance information from Code of Federal Regulations Title 29 Part 1926.1101 and Part 1926.62.

The success of any food manufacturer's safety program depends on how accurately a facility interprets the laws and how it handles the hazards that workers face on a daily basis. This resource provides industry managers, safety directors, and workers with straightforward answers to complicated OSHA questions. Referencing FDA, USDA, and other regulatory standards as applicable, the authors explain the requirements of the twelve major Occupationa...

Whether your organization is new to ISO or is an ISO-registered organization, you'll benefit from the thorough overview in this book, and you'll learn your responsibilities under the new, five-part structure of the ISO 9000 standards. Throughout the book, the author provides clearly-written explanations and instructions on the issues most critical to the success of an ISO-compliant quality management system, including each part of the new ISO ...

Using this reference as your guide, you'll learn how to assess your business's vulnerability to disasters, evaluate planning considerations, preserve records, and avoid the fate of those businesses that do not prepare and ultimately do not survive. In addition, you'll learn about your federal obligations under CFR Title 29, SARA Title III, CFR Title 40, and the National Fire Protection Association. The author provides new and updated informati...

Crane operators and safety managers will love this easy-to-use and comprehensive guidebook to OSHA CFR requirements, ANSI standards, proven managerial insights, and crane manufacturers' guidelines. Crane Safety helps readers avoid unnecessary injuries and penalties by discussing training and qualification requirements specified by OSHA and recommended by manufacturers of cranes and crane equipment.

This manual provides plant owners and operators with guidelines for complying with the Acid Rain Program and the 40 CFR Part 75 air emission-reduction requirements. Required by EPA to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOX), the principal causes of acid rain, the CEMS program provides EPA with the information it needs to allocate acid rain allowances to utilities to ensure that SO2 and NOX emission reductions occur.

Authored by EPA, this reference book provides a complete guide to systematically evaluating and organizing data, information, assumptions, and uncertainties so that you can understand the relationships between human-induced changes and their ecological effects. Using that information, you can then predict the likelihood of future adverse effects, evaluate the likelihood that effects are caused by past exposure to stressors, and make informed e...

Learn how to implement a team-based process that enables all members to be responsible to the safety process. In five easy-to-read chapters, behavioral-based safety expert Scott Geller explains the function of teams. He identifies and defines seven types of teams your organization can use to implement behavior-based safety and explains why two of them are essential to any organization.

Written in an easy-to-read conversational tone, Beyond Safety Accountability explains how to develop an organizational culture that encourages people to be accountable for their work practices and to embrace a higher sense of personal responsibility. The author begins by thoroughly explaining the difference between safety accountability and safety responsibility. He then examines the need of organizations to improve safety performance, discuss...

This book provides a collection of 28 writings from Scott Geller's regular column in 'Industrial Safety and Hygiene News, ' from Geller's associates at Safety Performance Solutions, and from the American Society of Safety Engineers' annual conferences. Organized into seven chapters, these writings examine real-world examples of successful behavior-based safety programs. Readers will discover tips on how to measure safety performance, how to ge...

Using the simple and effective checklist method, this book offers a convenient and efficient way to comply with complicated federal regulations and to help your employees understand the dangers of the hazardous materials in your workplace. Written by the authors of Safety Made Easy, Hazard Communication Made Easy provides you with a practical guide to creating and implementing a complete Hazard Communication Program. You'll find sample forms a...

Based on the book by the late Theodore Ferry, this handbook addresses new regulations and practices to help you achieve safety and health management success. Emphasizing the reduction of costs through cost/benefit analysis, this book covers practical material and real-world examples of common exercises, including safety measurement and benchmarking, economic design analysis, total quality management and planning, budgeting, and using audits an...

In both agricultural and urban areas, fuel hydrocarbons, metals, solvents, and other contaminants--left behind by the property's previous occupants--are surfacing, bringing construction projects to a grinding halt and leaving developers wondering what to do next. This book examines the obstacles of contaminated land and associated water and explains, in an easy-to-read narrative style, how best to take care of such sites.

The only training manual of its kind, this reference provides step-by-step guidance for training your facility and on-site commanders to respond to a hazardous materials spill in accordance with OSHA's HAZWOPER standard. Based on the author's successful two-day course, this book explains the Incident Command System, a hazardous materials management system that can be customized for the unique needs of each facility and each emergency. Incident...

Designed for both beginning and seasoned NEPA practitioners, this book guides professionals through the systematic mastery of the National Environmental Policy Act and its regulations. The book, written by NEPA expert Frederic March, is organized around ten themes of actual practice: purposes, documents, analysis, coverage, effectiveness, involvement, application, decisions, agencies, and procedures.

Used by the OSH Administration's compliance officers as a reference for technical information on safety and health issues, this manual enables both business and industry to evaluate their own facilities for compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The manual features all compliance and regulatory revisions issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, effective January 20, 1999, and covers such topics as sampling ...

Learn how a total-organization effort (maintenance, operations, engineering, and procurements) can improve your organization's reliability and financial performance. Basing their systematic approach on three principles--reliability management, proactive analysis, and root cause analysis--the authors explain how you can use each principle to develop and implement an effective reliability management program. You'll learn 15 key elements of relia...

This 106-page book explores and discusses the hazards of unguarded machines, common safeguarding methods, the safeguarding of machines and robots, the importance of guarding, the varying methods of machine guarding, training, inspection and maintenance, and safeguarding techniques. In addition, it provides both regulatory information and the material required to implement a viable machine guarding program. Special features include a sample loc...