Provides managers, architects, plant engineers, technicians, and others with a concise background in the principles of fire protection and property loss control (a new chapter on life safety elements was added to the second edition). Some of the topics are the characteristics and behavior of fire, t

"Managing Risk in Sport and Recreation includes numerous forms, checklists, and documentation strategies as well as safety questionnaires for each of the sports covered. This lawyer-created toolkit will help you take the necessary steps to reduce injuries, decrease lawsuits, and pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses in your programs. All of the forms and checklists are also reproduced on a CD-ROM included with the book so you can easily access and use them when needed."--BOOK JACKET.

As a critical function in monitoring workplace safety, loss control auditing provides an organizational assessment of safety program performance in relation to regulatory requirements and company policies. Principles of quality management dictate that measurement of an activity receives organizational attention and provides an excellent tool for co

Effectiveness. Efficiency. Excellence. These words and concepts permeate current literature, courses, and discussions. They are defined in nearly as many different ways as the number of people who write and talk about them. For practical purposes, the definitions seem to boil down to these:- Effectiveness - doing the right things.- Efficiency - doing things right.- Excellence - efficiently meeting effective goals, both short term and long range.We believe that this book can help you improve the effectiveness, efficiency and excellence of your system for managing loss control ... and for quality, production and cost control. In essence, it can help improve your management system. Improved quality, production and cost control go hand-in-hand with improved loss control, and they all depend on how the system is managed. The idea that excellence in safety and production go hand in hand is not new. As early as 1928 the American Engineering Council, based on an engineering and statistical study, demonstrated that an organization with decreasing injury rates is eleven times more likely to show increased production than an "unsafe" one.We believe that the book's concepts, practices, techniques and tools reflect what leading organizations around the free world have done, and are doing, to get their results. Spanning more than three decades, we have had the good fortune to work with tens of thousands of leaders in hundreds of organizations to distill the contents of this book. The ideas and applications are tried, tested, and proven. Put them to work and they will work for you.