This book is intended to serve a wide variety of users. This updated third edition provides the detailed background necessary to understand how to meet important new safety regulations and reliability engineering topics. Professional control system designers will learn to properly evaluate control system components, various system architectures, how to better communicate with vendors, and how t…
Safety regulation is society's way of keeping the genie of technology in the bottle, whilst still exploiting its power for creating wealth and change. It is a difficult compromise to make. Regulators often have a thankless task. If all seems to go well they are painted as too repressive and anti-technological; if disaster strikes, the searchlight of media attention increasingly focuses on them,…
Strategic Planning is woefully out of fashion, with many bloggers and thought-leaders claiming it is, in fact, dead. They couldn't be more wrong! Strategic Planning is an integral part of any nonprofit's ability to conduct effective social change. It allows the organization's staff, management, volunteers and board to identify and focus on the top priorities that the stakeholders agree wi…
The one Time, On Target Manager adalah kisah mengenai Bob, seorang manajer menengah pada umumnya , yang menunda segala hal hingga pada detik terakhir. Sebagai hasilnya, ia tidak bisa memenuhi tenggat waktu yang telah ditetapkan karena tidak adanya fokus membuatnya menyelesaikan tugas-tugas yang tidak penting sebelum menyelesaikan hal yang lebih penting. Sama seperti banyak profesional lainnya, …
Aimed at both the novice and expert in IT security and industrial control systems (ICS), this book will help readers gain a better understanding of protecting ICSs from electronic threats. Cyber security is getting much more attention and 'SCADA security' (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is a particularly important part of this field, as are Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Programm…
This comprehensive text provides an overview of all relevant topics in the field of radiation protection (health physics). Radiation Protection and Dosimetry serves as an essential handbook for practicing health physics professionals, and is also ideal as a teaching text for courses at the university level. The book is organized to introduce the reader to basic principles of radiation decay and…