Customer Reviews

Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health

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This is a wonderful book designed for the student or the safety professional. It covers most of the major points safety practitioners deal with and gives good reference material for further study. I highly recommend this book.

This was a great introductionary book to OSHA standards for the general industry. I learned a lot. The book is really good about giving examples of real-life instances. I found that I wanted to read every word.

I thought I was ordering a different version of this book. However, it was in great condition. Some highlighting inside. Works for the purpose of my class. Not a bad purchase.

I was not pleased with the condition of this book. I actually had to tape parts of it together before it could be used for class. I do not feel it was in the condition claimed.

book was in perfect condition brand new and i purchased as a used . only thing was it was shipped as book rate and took longer than i would of liked needed it sooner the it arrived otherwise an A+ transaction

a wonderful starter/intro on many topics, easy to follow and concise

So far the first few chapters of this safety book has been wonderful. I can't wait to finish it.

Although the information in this book may all be factual, it is the most poorly written textbook I've read. I'm a professional proofreader and lifelong (60 years) student of writing styles, as well as a writer of newspaper and magazine articles. These authors violate just about every tenet of good style there is. The short list includes extreme unnecessary use of passive voice, poor word choice, ridiculous repeated statements of the obvious coupled with unexplained use of arcane terminology. I'm using this as the required textbook in a course in Industrial Safety, or I wouldn't bother finishing it. I blame the publisher for poor editing as much as I do the authors. I will grant that basic explanations of safety terms and government regulations do not make for compelling reading, but there's no excuse for using what I call the "--and then also too--" school of expository writing. Moreover, I object to the extended use of the Herbert Hoover doctrine of economics ("When a lot of people are out of work, unemployment results") and the Edmund G. Brown theory of social relations ("The burden of poverty lies mainly with the poor.") Maybe this is the best book available on this subject; if so, we have a desperate need for someone to write another.