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Careful: a user's guide to our injury-prone minds
The modern world can be a dangerous place, filled with fast cars, smartphones, new drugs, and thrill sports. Meanwhile, we humans are as fragile as ever. In fact, after a century of steady improvement, injuries and accidental deaths are on the rise. Steve Casner has devoted his …
Provides instructions for activities from tightrope walking and throwing a spear to safely playing with both electricity and fire to illustrate ways that children can explore the world around them.
"To be successful, we need to understand the basic principles of selling and leadership, and how those aspects apply to safety. Supervisors have the greatest influence on employee behavior and are often held accountable for safety performance. Selling safety to upper management …
"To be successful, we need to understand the basic principles of selling and leadership, and how those aspects apply to safety. Supervisors have the greatest influence on employee behavior and are often held accountable for safety performance. Selling safety to upper management …
With forty well structured and easy to follow topics to choose from, each workbook has a wide range of case studies, questions and activities to meet both an individual or organization's training needs. Whether studying for an ILM qualification or looking to enhance the skills o…
Author Lynne Finch takes a comprehensive look at ways to improve your family's immediate safety and methods for protecting them in the future. Finch covers a wide range of topics from temporary ways renters can make their home secure, to more permanent changes an owner can make.
Author Lynne Finch takes a comprehensive look at ways to improve your family's immediate safety and methods for protecting them in the future. Finch covers a wide range of topics from temporary ways renters can make their home secure, to more permanent changes an owner can make.
In this updated edition, the author addresses the full range of disasters that can turn an ordinary day into a fight for survival. He offers advice on alarms, insurance, preparing a "disaster kit," planning for evacuation, communication, emergency food handling, first aid, and m…
Would you know how to prepare for an unforeseen emergency, or handle an unexpected disaster? With real/world considerations in mind, disaster preparedness consultant David Black shows us how to stay alive when tragedy strikes. His step/by/step actions can help us make it safely …
This popular guide shows how individuals and families can prepare and plan for emergency self-sufficiency. Everything you need to know to survive when public services fail is covered, including how to evaluate, organize, and rotate your food supply; pack an evacuation kit; prote…