Health and Safety

First published in 1992, the Fire Prevention on Construction Sites – Joint Code of Practice has just released its 10th Edition. The revised Code reflects the changes in standards, practice and use of modern materials with construction practices.

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to the health and wellbeing of the construction workforce.

This book aims to conceptualise the implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the workplace health and safety (WHS) management of construction projects to reduce occupational accidents.

A practical guide to assessing the risk of fire and enhancing the security of retail premises. It identifies the important issues, and encourages an approach in which good fire safety and security practice become familiar and normal to employees.

This book aims to take the reader through all aspects of fire safety and management in residential settings, from origin and ignition, risk assessment, protection and prevention, as well as comparing effective enforcement options from across all parts of the UK.

There is an urgent need for information and knowledge to curtail construction work incidents in developing countries. This book presents the first compendium of credible research into the issues.

This work provides knowledge, understanding and guidance to the detailed and complex requirements of health and safety legislation as applied to the construction industry. It links with the CIOB Education Framework at levels 2 and 3.

The second edition of the Health and Safety Pocket Book has been fully revised and updated to include all relevant legal, HSE ACoP/Guidance and practice references. It remains a handy reference tool for health and safety professionals, auditors, managers, HR personnel, employee representatives and anyone with health and safety responsibilities.

Highlights how health and safety in construction is evolving towards collaboration, structured data and sharing of information as BIM - the incarnation of these sensibilities - increasingly underpins construction practice.

This book is directly aligned to the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management, which is a qualification aimed primarily at those in business who influence the environmental performance of their organisation by the decisions that they make as managers or the actions that they take as operators.