This comprehensive manual focuses on facilities, workplace exposure and protections, materials handling and production operation. Topics include: Buildings and facility layout, Maintenance of facilities, PPE, electrical equipment, Fire protection, Workers with disabilities, Manual handling and materials storage, and Hand and portable power tools. Also included are new chapters on: Nanomaterials in the workplace, and Occupational medical surveillance. In addition, revised and updated chapters on: Facility construction, and Safety through design. This newest edition keeps you on the cutting edge of safety engineering and technological design for industrial facilities.

pt. I. Facilities. Safety through design ; Buildings and facility layout ; Construction of facilities ; Maintenance of facilities ; Boilers and unfired pressure vessels -- pt. II. Workplace exposures and protections. Safeguarding ; Personal protective equipment ; Industrial sanitation and personnel faciities ; Occupational medical surveillance ; Electrical safety ; Fire protection ; Flammable and combustible liquids ; Workers with disabilities -- pt. III. Materials handling. Nanomaterials in the workplace ; Materials handling and storage ; Hoisting and conveying equipment ; Ropes, chains, and slings ; Powered industrial trucks ; Haulage and off-road equipment -- pt. IV. Production operations. Hand and portable power tools ; Woodworking machinery ; Welding and cutting ; Metalworking machinery ; Cold forming of metals ; Hot working of metals ; Automated lines, systems, or processes ; The computer as a safety information tool.