About the book

Revised: Health and safety: risk
management
by Dr Tony Boyle
£57 softback 556 pages
ISBN 978 0 901357 41 0
Bridge the gap between risk theory and
practice
Assessing and managing risk is a challenging part of today's
dynamic business world. Widely recognised as the most readable text
on the subject, this revised third edition of Health and
safety: risk management is designed to equip you with the
knowledge and skills you need to meet that challenge.
Written by health and safety R&D specialist Dr Tony Boyle,
this reader-friendly textbook provides an authoritative
presentation of risk management. In this edition of Health
and safety: risk management you’ll find:
- coverage of the new and revised management system guidance, ISO
9004 (Quality) and BS 18004 (Health and Safety)
- clarified HSE guidance on competence
- topics including hazard identification, risk assessment and
control, and emergency planning
- updated NEBOSH syllabus and VQ domain knowledge.
Essential reading for
- health and safety professionals
- general managers
- NEBOSH Diploma students
- health and safety degree or diploma students
- health and safety post-graduate students
- VQ in occupational health and safety practice students
Contents preview
- hazard identification
- risk assessment
- risk control
- accident investigation
- loss and conformity monitoring
- auditing
- emergency planning
- communication
- training
- systems theory
- appendices mapping the content to the NEBOSH syllabus, VQ
domain knowledge and IOSH's requirements for academic courses
leading to Graduate membership
"Well produced … probably the most readable
thing you can buy covering these particular subject areas"
Health and Safety at Work
"... a well written and structured text"
Chris Webb, NEBOSH Accreditation Chairman
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