Occupational Safety and Health for Technologists Engineers and Managers or Quantitative Financial Economics

Occupational Safety and Health for Technologists, Engineers, and Managers

Author: David L Goetsch

Known for its comprehensive coverage, this book covers all aspects of occupational safety and health in today’s global workplace.  The book follows a logical sequence that provides a historical perspective and overview, covers the laws and regulations, discusses the human element, examines hazard assessment, prevention, and control, and covers management of safety and health. This edition features updated OSHA standards and contemporary topics such as safety culture, safety’s role in global competitiveness, workplace violence, natural disasters and terrorism.

Includes the most up-to-date coverage of occupational safety and health, including: The global impact of accidents and injuries; Obesity and accident causation; Common accident investigation mistakes to avoid; Participatory ergonomics; Preventing arc flash injuries; Emergency planning for workers with disabilities; Safely resuming business after a disaster; Occupational safety and h ealth management systems (OSHMS); Safety as a promotion tool.

An excellent reference for all industries.

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This textbook contains 30 chapters on the history and current state of occupational safety and health, the causes and consequences of accidents, the relevant laws and regulations, safety analysis, accident investigation, training, ethics, and specific concern areas. These include: ergonomics, stress, machine hazards, temperature extremes, pressure, electricity, fire, industrial hygiene, radiation, noise, emergencies, bloodborne pathogens, environmental safety, product safety, and violence. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Intended for use in universities, colleges, and corporate training settings, this text contains 30 chapters, each focusing on a major area of concern for modern safety and health professionals. Material covered includes theories of accident causation; the OSHAct, standards, and liability; worker's compensation; ergonomic hazards; workplace stress; impact, temperature, pressure, radiation, noise, electrical, and fire hazards; industrial hygiene; safety analysis; safety ethics; violence in the workplace; and a number of professional issues for safety and health workers. Case studies are included in each chapter. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

PART 1: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND OVERVIEW

1.    Safety Movement, Then and Now

2.    Accidents and Their Effects

3.    Theories of Accident Causation

4.    Roles and Professional Certifications for Safety and Health Professionals

5.    Safety, Culture, and Competition in the Global Marketplace

PART 2: LAWS AND REGULATIONS

6.    The OSHA Act, Standards, and Liability

7.    Worker’s Compensation

8.    Accident Investigation and Reporting

9.    Product Safety and Liability

PART 3: THE HUMAN ELEMENT

10.  Ergonomics: Musculoskeletal Disorders ( MSDs) and Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTDs)

11.  Stress and Safety

12.  Safety and Health Training

13.  Violence in the Workplace

PART 4: HAZARD ASSESSMENT PREVENTION AND CONTROL

14.  Mechanical Hazards and Safeguarding

15.  Fall ing, Impact, Acceleration, Lifting, and Vision Hazards

16.  Hazards of Temperature Extremes

17.  Pressure hazards

18.  Electrical Hazards

19.  Fire Hazards and Life Safety

20.  Industrial Hygiene, Toxic Substances, and Confined Spaces

21.  Radiation Hazards: Ionizing and Non-Ionizing

22.  Noise and Vibration Hazards

23.  Computers, Automation, and Robots

24.  Bloodborne Pathogens in the Workplace

PART 5: MANAGEMENT OF SAFETY AND HEALTH

25.  Preparing for Emergencies and Terrorism

26.  Ethics and Safety

27.  Hazard Analysis, Prevention, and Management

28.  Promoting Safety and Health

29.  Environmental Safety, Environmentalmanagement, and ISO 14000

30.  TSM: Total Safety Management

31.  Establishing a Safety-Friendly Corporate Culture

New interesting textbook: Principles of Information Systems 8th Edition or The Theory of Corporate Finance

Quantitative Financial Economics: Stocks, Bonds and Foreign Exchange

Author: Dirk Nitzsch

This new edition of the hugely successful Quantitative Financial Economics has been revised and updated to reflect the most recent theoretical and econometric/empirical advances in the financial markets.   It provides an introduction to models of economic behaviour in financial markets, focusing on discrete time series analysis.   Emphasis is placed on theory, testing and explaining ‘real-world’ issues.

The new edition will include:

• Updated charts and cases studies.

• New companion website allowing students to put theory into practice and to test their knowledge through questions and answers.

• Chapters on Monte Carlo simulation, bootstrapping and market microstructure.

Table of Contents:

1	Basic concepts in finance	1
2	Basic statistics in finance	35
3	Efficient markets hypothesis	53
4	Are stock returns predictable?	73
5	Mean-variance portfolio theory and the CAPM	115
6	International portfolio diversification	141
7	Performance measures, CAPM and APT	169
8	Empirical evidence : CAPM and APT	189
9	Applications of linear factor models	205
10	Valuation models and asset returns	245
11	Stock price volatility	255
12	Stock prices : the VAR approach	273
13	SDF model and the C-CAPM	303
14	C-CAPM : evidence and extensions	323
15	Intertemporal asset allocation : theory	355
16	Intertemporal asset allocation : empirics	375
17	Rational bubbles an d learning	397
18	Behavioural finance and anomalies	423
19	Behavioural models	451
20	Theories of the term structure	489
21	The EH - from theory to testing	501
22	Empirical evidence on the term structure	515
23	SDF and affine term structure models	537
24	The foreign exchange market	549
25	Testing CIP, UIP and FRU	567
26	Modelling the FX risk premium	591
27	Exchange rate and fundamentals	607
28	Market risk	627
29	Volatility and market microstructure	653