Writing primarily for professionals in the safety, occupational health, hazardous materials, quality improvement and risk management disciplines, Tweedy includes helpful checklists and quick references for review on the job. He emphasizes prevention and quick response in his descriptions of healthcare safety management and control, regulations and standards, emergency management and fire safety, physical plant safety, hazardous materials, biological hazards, and support department safety, and includes a chapter on safety in patient and clinical areas and a wealth of regulatory information and lists of resources and further reading. This text could serve as either a textbook or a reference manual. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Tweedy, James T., MS, CHCM, CHSP

Tags: healthcare hazard control and safety management