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New Workplaces for New Workstyles
New Workplaces for New WorkstylesMarilyn Zelinsky£51.99288 pagesHardbackFor reasons ranging from high occupancy costs to changing employee demographics, team-based approaches, and the Clean Air Act of 1990, businesses are engaged in workplace restructuring. This book demonstrates the alternatives to the square-foot-per-person theory of office space.
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Risk Management
Risk ManagementEdited by John Ridley & John Channing£24.99320 pagesPaperback1999This manual for managing safety in the workplace explores risk management. It includes health, safety, employment and environmental legislation. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of the manager and it recognizes the shift in employment numbers from manufacturing to service industries.
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Waste Management: The waste land
Whether liquid or solid, animal, vegetable or mineral, rubbish has to be disposed of safely and its passage to its last resting place well documented. There is no room for corner cutting. If you want your business to be environmentally respectable and stay within the new regulations, just do it ...
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Plant Services and Operations Handbook
Plant Services and Operations HandbookAnthony L Kohan£57.99544 pagesHardbackThis handbook addresses the operation, maintenance and operational services in commercial and industrial plants and boiler room facilities. It covers subjects such as heat, lighting, refrigeration, air conditioning, water, waste disposal, security and safety in the workplace.
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A Manager's Guide to Health and Safety at Work
A Manager’s Guide to Health and Safety at WorkJeremy Stranks£18.99252 pagesPaperbackMar 2001A resource for all managers responsible for the health, safety and welfare of their staff. It seeks to help managers unravel the complicated legal obligations, and explains how to establish systems and procedures for effective health and safety management.
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Who got that job?
After a career with construction services company Carillion, George Daville has been appointed property executive at premiership football club Sunderland AFC.
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Outsourcing: TV giant NTL signals intent to outsource
Profectus is strongly tipped to be the preferred bidder in the race for the multi-million pound facilities management contract.
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Where can I get...
Summer's here and the air conditioning's bust. Tempers are becoming frayed and people are getting hot under the Jermyn Street collar. What you need is a portable air conditioner
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FM: the next generation
As the standing of facilities management grows, ever more skills are required to meet ever more complex demands. We find the latest crop of professionals – each of whom regards the industry as their career of choice – hungry for the challenge.
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Health & safety file
The editor of Barbour Index rounds up the latest publications, plus new law in Ireland
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Health & Safety: High fibre risk
The use of asbestos may now be banned in the UK but in workplaces where it still lurks the substance continues to pose a potentially lethal risk to anyone who comes into contact with it. New regulations will require owners to identify, assess and manage the risk from asbestos in ...
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Facility Manager's Portable Handbook
Facility Manager’s Portable HandbookBernard Lewis£38.94420 pagesPaperback1999Presented in a handy, pocket-sized format, this guide provides quick and easy access to various issues in facilities operations and maintenance. It is sourced from the author's Facilities and Operations Maintenance, and covers everything from organisational structure to elevator maintenance.
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Facility Manager's Operation and Maintenance Handbook
Facility Manager’s Operation and Maintenance HandbookBernard T Lewis£69.34800 pagesHardback1999A comprehensive source of information for facilities and maintenance managers, this handbook provides details of proven procedures and techniques, numerous operation plans, and places special emphasis on emergency and energy equipment.
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Hospitals: Facilities on frontline says NHS supremo
Good food, a therapeutic environment and care from the moment a patient is admitted. Hefma conference delegates heed the challenge
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e-procurement: Servus with a smile at new portal
Facilities management company SERVUS, has launched its business support portal, Servusb2b, with the promise that it will save at least 10 per cent of support costs.
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Education and training: Surveyors embrace facilities managers
Facilities managers who take postgraduate degree courses in facilities management at one of six universities and colleges across the UK will be eligible to join the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) following a shake-up in the Institution's education programme.
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Increasing Productivity and Profit in the Workplace: A Guide to Office Planning and Design
Increasing Productivity and Profit in the Workplace: A Guide to Office Planning and DesignM. Glynn Shumake£70.95204 pagesHardbackThis study provide guidance on the design of workspace in order to increase productivity and efficiency. It introduces different approaches and identifies problem areas along with possible remedies. The text also includes concepts for ...
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Office Space Planning: Design for Tomorrow's Workplace
Office Space Planning: Design for Tomorrow’s WorkplaceAlexi Marmot & Joanna Eley. Editor: Wendy Lochner£40.99493 pagesHardbackJun 2000This title demonstrates the benefits to be gained through the use of intelligent design. The book gives designers, facility managers and space planners practical guidance on optimal use of space, employee and task space ...
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Road safety: Dangerous driving
A government task force is targeting workplace driving after figures show that driving a company car is almost as dangerous as coalmining.
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Legislation: Corporate killing law won't work, says silk
Safety could be driven underground if directors are made liable