The story begins in the early 1900's with a young family aboard ship headed for America. Mr. Evan's, after a redundancy in Wales decided to start anew.He and his family immigrated and settled in Pennsylvania taking work in the coalmines. Mrs. Evan's befriends a new neighbor. The bond that developes between the two women is forged strong through unfathomable sorrow that will affect each of their lives. Their healing comes from the unlikeliest source imaginable, the town outcast.
A Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Psychology focusing on occupational safety and workplace health. The editors draw on their collective experience to present thematically structured material from leading thinkers and practitioners in the USA, Europe, and Asia Pacific Provides comprehensive coverage of the major contributions that psychology can make toward the improvement of workplace safety and employee health Equips those who need it most with cutting-edge research on key topics including wellbeing, safety culture, safety leadership, stress, bullying, workplace health promotion and proactivity
A community less than a square mile in size, Sharon Hill came into its own in the 19th century. The surroundings were mostly undeveloped until 1872, when the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad ran its rails through the area. A few homes and farms dotted the landscape, and there were two passable roads. One main thoroughfare, known earlier as the Queen's Highway and now as Chester Pike, ran through the entire length of the town. With the arrival of the railroad, a town plan was developed and Sharon Hill added a few stores and businesses to its landscape. Affluent Philadelphians built their mansions along Chester Pike, and churches and schools soon followed. In 1890, Sharon Hill was incorporated as a borough when it separated from Darby Borough.
Workplace accidents and errors cost organizations hundreds of billions of dollars each year, and the injured workers and their families endure considerable financial and emotional suffering. It's obvious that increasing employee health and safety pays. The accumulating evidence shows that investing in occupational health and safety results in improved financial and social responsibility performance. There are extensive country differences and wide occupational differences in the incidence of accidents and errors. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that every year there are 2.2 million fatal and 270 million non-fatal accidents or occupational diseases worldwide. Occupational Health and Safety looks at the research into what causes accidents and errors in the workplace. In line with other titles in the series, Occupational Health and Safety emphasizes the psychological and behavioral aspects of risk in organizations. It highlights how organizations differ in their health and safety performance, with case studies throughout and best practices. Key elements focus on: employee selection and training, fostering employee understanding, participation and engagement in health and safety matters, developing a health and safety culture at organizational and group/work unit levels, communicating and reinforcing safe workplace practices and bench-marking one's organization against the industry leaders. The contributors to this volume come from various countries, reflecting unique interest and knowledge in particular areas.
The third edition of a bestseller, Human Safety and Risk Management: A Psychological Perspective incorporates a decade of new research and development to provide you with a comprehensive and contemporary guide to the psychology of risk and workplace safety. A major enhancement is reflected in the new subtitle for the book, A Psychological Perspective, which highlights both the expertise of the authors and also confirms the predominantly psychological orientation of the revised text. New in the Third Edition: State-of-the-art theory reviews, research findings, and practical applications New chapter on impact that sensor technologies have on approaches to safety and risk in contemporary society Enhanced chapters on key issues around sensing danger, risk perception, error detection, safety culture, risk management, leadership, teams, and stress management This book discusses how people perceive and manage risks and how to make the workplace a safer place. It examines the influence of individual factors on safety, as well as team and organizational factors at work, from a psychological perspective. It also highlights changes in safety due to the changing workplace, globalization, and managing employees’ safety and health beyond the workplace — a challenge that many organizations have yet to address. Reflecting current scientific research across a range of disciplines as it applies to human safety and risk management, this book helps you meet the challenges posed by the rapidly evolving workplace.
Reflecting a decade’s worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an extensive re-working of the material from the earlier edition. Examining a wide range of approaches to risk, the authors define safety culture and review theoretical models that elucidate mechanisms linking safety culture with safety performance. Filled with practical examples and case studies and drawing on a range of disciplines, the book explores individual differences and the many ways in which human beings are alike within a risk and safety context. It delineates a risk management approach that includes a range of techniques such as risk assessment, safety audit, and safety interventions. The authors address concepts central to workplace safety such as attitudes and their link with behavior. They discuss managing behavior in work environments including key functions and benefits of groups, factors influencing team effectiveness, and barriers to effectiveness such as groupthink.
About Morgan's Crossing; A devastating letter addressed to critically wounded soldier Orville Jenkins arrives to a army hospital outside Paris. His beloved Kelly Hennessy, mother of his son, had succumbed to the great flu pandemic. Private First Class, Orville Jenkins, before drawing his final breath had but one request. Worried about him and Kelly's son, Morgan, Orville called on fellow soldier and hometown friend, geraint, to intercede and protect Morgan from the stigma surrounding growing up in an orphanage. Orville intended a better life for the son he would never see; he wanted Geranit's parents to raise the child. The young soldier did as promised and brought young Morgan home to his folks, Mari and Rhodri Evans. The unsuspecting coalming town had its share of disturbances from the Jenkins clan but none so menacing as Bill Jenkins. A manipulating lunatic who sets his sights on a local boy named Morgan. Who Bill believes is the offspring of his deceased brother, Orville. Obsessed with the boy, Bill befriends Morgan and seeks out a way to right the wrong done to the Jenkins name and comes up with a plan. After murdering the boy's grandfather, Sean Hennessy, Bill seeks out a relationship with Sean's newly widowed wife, Cate, who after years of abuse failed to mourn or report his passing. Cate's devotion to her friends and family trumped Bill's plan to flee New Salem with her and Morgan at his side. His mistake would eventually cost someone their life.
Marsh’s Becoming a Teacher, 6e continues to offer pre-service teachers a practical and user-friendly guide to learning to teach that students find invaluable throughout their entire degree. Marsh covers a comprehensive introduction to teaching methodology, preparing pre-service teachers for the challenges they face in a 21st-century classroom. All chapters in this new edition have been updated with new approaches and current references by the two new authors Maggie Clarke and Sharon Pittaway. The approach in this 6th edition is more reflective and gives readers an even greater opportunity to interact with issues raised in the text.
One Glance Into The Sky Changed Her World-Forever Growing up during the Depression is hard enough without the added problems of betrayal, abuse, addiction, and the difficulties of a dysfunctional family. One evening at her grandparents' house, Rose Evans makes a wish on a shooting star. What follows is a spectacular event that instills within her an unshakable belief in the power of the stars. From her life in Pittsburgh as a small child to her journey to Detroit as a young woman, Rose faces many obstacles. As she seeks to find the life she has always dreamed about, Rose realizes that if you believe in yourself, it is possible for dreams to come true.
The car crash killed her husband and two young children, life was not easy for Leah. Dysfunctional family and no money. She met Mason: rich, and charismatic. Two years later, happily married, but strange things are happening: why? what's going on? Is she going mad?
This is a biography of the writer Sumner Locke Elliott, author of the bestselling and autobiographical Careful He Might Hear You. Locke Elliott lived most of his life in New York where he wrote a dozen or more successful stage plays. His mother, also a writer, died in childbirth - something for which Locke Elliott could not forgive himself. This is also the story of a gay male artist in the tough male Australian culture of the 1950s and his expatriate life until his death in 1990.
This book is an encouragement to acknowledge and give thanks to God who is our Creator. God is the only One who can carry us through all the challenges and victories in our life seasons.
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