Neville C. Tompkins - A Managers Guide to OSHA (A Fifty-Minute Series Book)

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Neville C.Tompkins

A FIFTY-MINUTE SERIES BOOK

CRISP LEARNING Menlo Park, California

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1993 by Crisp Publications, Inc.

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Tompkins, Neville C.

A Managers Guide to OSHA

ISBN 1-56052-180-5 (Print Edition)

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A MANAGERS GUIDE TO OSHA

The objectives for A Managers Guide to OSHA are listed below. They have been developed to guide you, the reader, to the core issues covered in this book.

Objectives

Assessing Your Progress

In addition to the learning objectives, Crisp Learning has developed an assessment that covers the fundamental information presented in this book. A twenty-five item, multiple choice/true-false questionnaire allows the reader to evaluate his or her comprehension of the subject matter. An answer sheet with a chart matching the questions to the listed objectives is also available. To learn how to obtain a copy of this assessment, please call 1-800-442-7477 and ask to speak with a Customer Service Representative.

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Every workday in America hundreds of employers receive that ominous call from the receptionist, Theres a representative from OSHA in the lobby who wants to see you. This book tells you what to do next.

This book shares the writers experiences in dealing with federal OSHA for many years as a safety and health manager at the plant level in general industry and then at the corporate level in negotiating with OSHA area officials in dozens of settlement conferences.

Neville C.Tompkins

Neville C.Tompkins, a safety and health consultant and writer from Cedar Run, New Jersey, has had plant, division and corporate safety and health responsibilities in large organizations. Formerly Director of Safety and Health for Continental Can Co., Inc., he had corporate staff responsibility for safety and health in that 9,500-employee company and was the lead corporate manager in dealing with federal and state safety and health agencies. He now offers safety and health consulting services to smaller organizations. He is the author of How to Conduct Safety and Health Audits from Business and Legal Reports Inc., Madison, Connecticut and from Standard Publishing Corp., Boston, How to Write a Company Safety Manual and Job Safety Programs: Development and Implementation.

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