Safety Through Design

Providing a range of perspectives from more than 20 contributors, Safety Through Design enables you to integrate decisions affecting safety, health, and the environment into the early stages of the design process and to attain multiple benefits, including:
-- reduction in injuries, illness, and environmental damage, as well as their attendant costs
-- improved productivity
-- reduced operating costs
-- reduced expenses to correct design shortcomings

Through the authors' varied viewpoints, you get a rich understanding of safety through design concepts and learn how to customize them to your facility. You find out how to give each level of engineering a share of the responsibility for building safety into the job, right through the production phase. In addition, you learn how responsibility extends to product design, plant layout and condition of premises, the selection and specification of materials, production planning, and the duties of managers and employees.