This manual covers a broad range of topics concerning safety, health, and environmental issues in engineering and technology, including specific hazards, best practices, control procedures, resources, and sources of help available today. The text's chapters, organized into sections on facilities, workplace exposures and protections, materials handling, and production operation, have all been revised with updated data. The major changes in this edition include an extensively rewritten section of safety through design, and two new chapters on nanomaterials in the workplace and the computer as a safety information tool. The text serves as a resource for new and experienced safety professionals, and corporate or company managers searching for solutions to safety and health problems, and as a textbook for students preparing for safety careers.
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