Construction
- Page ID
- 667
- Building Maintenance and Construction - Tools and Maintenance Tasks (Rutherford)
- Building Maintenance & Construction: Tools and Maintenance Tasks introduces and develops knowledge of basic building maintenance tools and materials, applied skills and techniques, industry health and safety standards, and preventive maintenance and troubleshooting practices required by employers for entry-level positions in the building trades and facilities maintenance fields.
- Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces (Foster and Barnetson)
- Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities they live in. This textbook provides workers with an introduction to effective injury prevention. The book pays particular attention to how issues of precarious employment, gender, and ill health can be better handled in Canadian occupational health and safety (OHS).
- Front Matter
- 1: Workplace Injury in Theory and Practice
- 2: Legislative Framework of Injury Prevention and Compensation
- 3: Hazard Recognition, Assessment and Control
- 4: Physical Hazards
- 5: Chemical and Biological Hazards
- 6: Psycho-social Hazards
- 7: Health Effects of Employment
- 8: Training and Injury Prevention Programs
- 9: Incident Investigation
- 10: Disability Management and Return to Work
- 11: The Practice of Health and Safety
- Back Matter
Thumbnail: Construction worker at Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA), 1942. (Public Domain).