Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: Supporting Documentation

Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: Supporting Documentation

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Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780160926754

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The Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) handbook can be used by trained personnel to identify, inventory, and screen buildings that are potentially seismically vulnerable. The RVS procedure comprises a method and several forms that help users to quickly identify, inventory, and score buildings according to their risk of collapse if hit by major earthquakes. The RVS handbook describes how to identify the structural type and key weakness characteristics, how to complete the screening forms, and how to manage a successful RVS program.


Hazardous Building Materials

Hazardous Building Materials

Author: Steve Curwell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1135808805

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Following the highly successful format of the first edition, this book's main purpose is to guide construction industry professionals on how to select healthy and environmentally-friendly construction materials.


Fire Insurance Cases: 1855-1864

Fire Insurance Cases: 1855-1864

Author: Edmund Hatch Bennett

Publisher:

Published: 1876

Total Pages: 894

ISBN-13:

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Being a collection of all the reported cases on fire insurance, in England, Ireland, Scotland, and America, from the earliest period to the present time, chronologically arranged ... with notes and references.


Hazardous Materials Monitoring and Detection Devices

Hazardous Materials Monitoring and Detection Devices

Author: Christopher Hawley

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2018-09-13

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1284143910

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Hazardous Materials Monitoring and Detection Devices Third Edition is designed for a variety of industries. Although primarily written for emergency responders, hazardous materials responders, firefighters, and law enforcement officers, the text applies to a number of other occupations. Persons who work in an industrial facility or who are involved in health and safety, such as industrial hygienists or safety managers, will find this text very helpful. Persons involved in environmental recovery or in other areas where monitoring is used will benefit. This text covers monitors and detection devices for both hazardous materials and weapons of mass destruction (WMD). It also provides these agencieswith a broad spectrum picture of monitoring, one that can help with purchasing decisions and in the implementation of a monitoring strategy. This text covers a wide variety of detection devices, some basic and some advanced. An important part it is how to use these devices tactically and how to interpret the readings. The backbone of the text is the discussion of risk-based response (RBR), which is a common approach to emergency response.Many response agencies follow a risk-based response, and NFPA 472 Standard for Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents includes the recommendation to follow this method. The goal of RBR is to assist the responder in making appropriate decisions regarding response tactics. Hazardous Materials: Monitoring and Detection Devices Third Edition covers the thought process behind RBR, the technology that runs monitoring devices and how they work and, more importantly, when they do not work in order to keep you as safe as possible..