Engineering Safety
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Author(s): D. S. Dhillon
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 981238328X
Format: softback
219pp
Price: £17.00
Review Date: 12 May 2003
Review: In 1996, according to the National Safety Council, there were 93,400 deaths and 20,700,000 disabling accidents in the workplace in the USA. This book provides information about general safety and systems safety plus applications of specialized safety areas for graduate and undergraduate engineering students. The author is professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa. He covers: workplace accidents and safety; safety management and control; safety analysis methods and techniques; risk analysis and management; human factors in safety; safety costing; maintenance safety; robot safety; and safety in health care systems.