Definitions, Conversions, and Calculations for Occupational Safety and Health Professionals contains virtually every mathematical relationship, formula, definition, and conversion factor that any professional will ever need or encounter combined with example problems and step-by step solutions.

Features:

• Provides example problems in all areas of occupational safety and health, environmental engineering, as well as risk assessment and management accompanied by step-by-step solutions, not just answers, in each case
• Describes the basic parameters or measurements of the physical sciences along with the fundamental laws
• Covers the parameters, measurements, and mathematical relationships that relate to the hardware and equipment of ventilation
• Explores everyday environmental hazards, their effects on individuals in the workplace, and how to mitigate these effects
• Discusses the broad areas of statistics and probability and the application of these disciplines to the routine practice of occupational safety and health and risk assessment

Contents

1. The Basic Parameters and Laws of Physics & Chemistry
2. Standards and Calibrations
3. Workplace Ambient Air
4. Ventilation
5. Thermal Stress
6. Sound & Noise
7. Mechanical Vibration
8. Ionizing & Non-ionizing Radiation
9. Statistics and Probability

Index

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