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MarcusB  
#1 Posted : 08 April 2011 16:42:10(UTC)
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MarcusB

I'm think of 'treating' myself to a new reference book for 2011 and was hoping some of you may have some suggestions. Two that I have been looking at are "Tolley's Health and Safety at Work Handbook 2011" and "Workplace Law Handbook 2011: Health and Safety, Premises and Environment Handbook". Has anyone read either of these or got any other suggestions for a general reference book that they think is actually useful? Thanks for any help/advice you can offer. Feel free to PM me if you don't want to risk advertising any books on the forum.
imwaldra  
#2 Posted : 09 April 2011 19:41:08(UTC)
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imwaldra

Personally me choice would be to avoid anything that encourages legal compliance rather than 'best practice'. In my career learning from accidents that others have suffered has been a huge learning area. Have you considered David Eves book published by IOSH? Or any of the several books by Andrew Hopkins, or by Trevor Kletz (the latter being mainly pocess industry based)? Most of the other IOSH books are very good value I believe - choose one that links to your interests or an area you wish to learn more about. Or get something for nothing - for example the US National Commission on Deepwarer Horizon which covers all the regulatory and political failings as well as those by the organisations directly involved. Well worth much study and freely downloadable, as is the BP internal investigation which is a good model of how to set up a really major one (that doesn't mean I think it covers everything relevant - rather that it explains what its purpose is and does that pretty well).
MarcusB  
#3 Posted : 09 April 2011 20:01:26(UTC)
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MarcusB

Thanks for the response imwaldra!
MarcusB  
#4 Posted : 12 April 2011 08:51:06(UTC)
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MarcusB

Thank you to those of you who sent me suggestions by PM.
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