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  • Risk Management for Security Professionals

    • 1st Edition
    • Carl Roper
    • English
    This book describes the risk management methodology as a specific process, a theory, or a procedure for determining your assets, vulnerabilities, and threats and how security professionals can protect them. Risk Management for Security Professionals is a practical handbook for security managers who need to learn risk management skills. It goes beyond the physical security realm to encompass all risks to which a company may be exposed. Risk Management as presented in this book has several goals: Provides standardized common approach to risk management through a framework that effectively links security strategies and related costs to realistic threat assessment and risk levels Offers flexible yet structured framework that can be applied to the risk assessment and decision support process in support of your business or organization Increases awareness in terms of potential loss impacts, threats and vulnerabilities to organizational assets Ensures that various security recommendations are based on an integrated assessment of loss impacts, threats, vulnerabilities and resource constraints Risk management is essentially a process methodology that will provide a cost-benefit payback factor to senior management.

  • Marketing Plans

    How to prepare them, how to use them
    • 4th Edition
    • Malcolm McDonald
    • English
    At last marketing managers and business executives concerned with profitability and sustained growth of their organisation have at their fingertips a practical guide which tells them how to prepare and use a marketing plan.In this new edition of Marketing Plans, one of the world's leading marketing educators has greatly expanded his book to include the key recent developments in marketing techniques and a range of practical marketing tools. In Marketing Plans, the whole process of marketing planning - from initial assessment of a company's business plan to the steps necessary to ensure a company achieves its profit targets - is fully explained. There is an additional section which provides a step-by-step 'this is how you do it' guide to devising your own marketing plan, combining the very best of current practice with the necessary theoretical background. Marketers, executives and students studying for CIM and CAM exams will find the application of basic marketing principles to sound business practice invaluable. For tutors, there is a comprehensive resource pack containing OHP masters, chapter-by-chapter tutor notes, examples of real marketing plans, case studies for classroom use and interactive exercises on floppy disks.

  • Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students

    • 3rd Edition
    • T.H.G. Megson
    • English
    Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students provides a completely self contained course in aircraft structures, which includes discussion on the fundamentals of elasticity and aircraft structural analysis, as well as the associated topics of airworthiness and aeroelasticity. Although much of the basic material is timeless, the author has updated the text throughout, including new material on areas that have developed since the last edition - in both educational and technological terms. The expansion of aviation makes aircraft structures an increasingly important topic at undergraduate level. Since its original publication in 1972, this book has become the 'bible' for aircraft structures.

  • Bomb Threat Management and Policy

    • 1st Edition
    • RONALDR DECKER
    • English
    This is a practical book for security professionals on how to deal with the threat or suspicion of bomb threats at their facilities. From controlling the initial threat to evacuating personnel during a crisis, this book leads the way for the security professional to handle the situation competently. Emphasis is placed on adaptation and usage of existing corporate assets and facilities for communication, command centers, staging areas, blast recovery and return to work.This material is totally new in that:It describes the levels of corporate involvement and consequences that are associated with the adoption of a formal bomb policy. It separates fact evaluation and decision-making power into accelerating levels of urgency. It defines specific duties and responsibilities and assigns persons or teams to perform accordingly. It work equally well in those situations where the company commonly receives multiple bomb threats in a single day. It provides score cards for companies to self-evaluate their own risks and exposures related to evacuation and return to work. It allows management to assign mathematical weights to defined risks and formally decide what mathematical totals are acceptable or unacceptable prior to a crisis event. It details the decision-making process in sending evacuated employees back to work where there has been no blast and no bomb has been found. It describes how the integrity of the corporate organization chart can be maintained while major events may be taking place at any level within the organization chart. It is designed to afford a company maximum protection from public scrutiny and legal action that may arise after a blast.In the past few years, bombings and bomb threats have been on the rise in the US at health clinics, animal testing facilities, and government or high profile buildings. Some multinational corporations receive up to 10 bomb threats in a single day. Only by proper threat management can modern commercial and industrial enterprises maintain continuity in their normal business operations. Regardless of whether or not a security professional has experienced a threat, he or she must always have a policy in place for one. Whether or not the security professional can defuse the bomb isn't as important as whether or not he or she can evaluate the premises and establish a policy to deal with an emergency.

  • Analogue and Digital Communication Techniques

    • 1st Edition
    • Grahame Smillie
    • English
    The rapid expansion of digital communications, particularly in the fields of TV and mobile telephones does not overide the need for a clear understanding of analogue frequencies. Moreover, analogue technology will play an important role in communications well into the 21st century.Covering the principles behind analogue and digital communication systems, this book takes a less mathematical approach than is often found at this level. It begins with basic principles such as information systems, data compression and error detection before moving on to more advanced topics such as Pulse Code Modulation systems and digital microwave systems. Data protocols are also given so that the reader can gain a good understanding of more complex communication systems. 'Analogue and Digital Communication Techniques' has been designed for students studying HND electronic communication courses but will also be useful to junior undergraduates on similar courses. Some knowledge of basic elctronics is assumed.

  • Chemical Process Safety: Learning from Case Histories

    • 2nd Edition
    • Roy E. Sanders
    • English
    In this easy-to-understand book, the author, drawing on his many years of practical experience, addresses the problems experienced with management of change in chemical plants. He cites examples of the consequences of the insufficient review of changes implemented to solve one problem, which then create another.Unwise chemical plant modifications are one of the major causes of chemical plant accidents and all proposed good ideas involving change require careful review and analysis before implementation. Illustrated with many case histories this book highlights the incidents of unforseen, undesirable consequences of unwise change within chemical and petrochemical plants and petroleum refineries.Illustrat... with many case histories, this book highlights the incidents of unforeseen, undesirable consequences of unwise change within chemical and petrochemical and petroleum refineries.

  • Vibration Fundamentals

    • 1st Edition
    • R. Keith Mobley
    • English
    In a single useful volume, Vibration Fundamentals explains the basic theory, applications, and benefits of vibration analysis, which is the dominant predictive maintenance technique used with maintenance management programs. All mechanical equipment in motion generates a vibration profile, or signature, that reflects its operating condition. This is true regardless of speed or whether the mode of operation is rotation, reciprocation, or linear motion. There are several predictive maintenance techniques used to monitor and analyze critical machines, equipment, and systems in a typical plant. These include vibration analysis, ultrasonics, thermography, tribology, process monitoring, visual inspection, and other nondestructive analysis techniques. Of these techniques, vibration analysis is the dominant predictive maintenance technique used with maintenance management programs, and this book explains the basic theory, applications, and benefits in one easy-to-absorb volume that plant staff will find invaluable. This is the second book in a new series published by Butterworth-Heineman... in association with PLANT ENGINEERING magazine. PLANT ENGINEERING fills a unique information need for the men and women who operate and maintain industrial plants. It bridges the information gap between engineering education and practical application. As technology advances at increasingly faster rates, this information service is becoming more and more important. Since its first issue in 1947, PLANT ENGINEERING has stood as the leading problem-solving information source for America's industrial plant engineers, and this book series will effectively contribute to that resource and reputation.

  • Hydraulics and Pneumatics

    • 2nd Edition
    • Andrew Parr
    • English
    Nearly all industrial processes require objects to be moved, manipulated or subjected to some sort of force. This is frequently accomplished by means of electrical equipment (such as motors or solenoids), or via devices driven by air (pneumatics) or liquids (hydraulics).This book has been written by a process control engineer as a guide to the operation of hydraulic and pneumatic systems for all engineers and technicians who wish to have an insight into the components and operation of such a system.This second edition has been fully updated to include all recent developments such as the increasing use of proportional valves, and includes an extra expanded section on industrial safety. It will prove indispensable to all those wishing to learn about hydraulics and pneumatics.

  • CFROI Valuation

    • 1st Edition
    • Bartley Madden
    • English
    What generates shareholder value? How can it be evaluated? How can it influence investment decisions and corporate strategy? Cash Flow Return On Investment answers all these questions by detailing the pioneering financial research carried out by HOLT Value Associates, the leading consultancy in the field. Read this book if you want to find out what really drives the wealth generation in any business, allowing you to pick which equities will succeed and which strategic initiatives are destined for high returns. The CFROI model is an essential tool for professionals working in finance and corporate strategy. It clarifies how economic value is created in a firm and acts as a reliable guide to:* making investment decisions* taking key strategic decisions* understanding economic value

  • Industrial Security

    • 2nd Edition
    • David L Berger
    • English
    A basic text on general security techniques, this book emphasizes the philosophical, moral and ethical responsibilities of the security officer, along with the elements of various specialties within the field. This book is designed for not only the beginning student, but for ambitious security personnel seeking advancement and directors training staff in the field. It is important for security personnel, in this age of the computer, to understand the background and basic elements of security procedures. It is also important to understand this philosophy in order to develop programs which may be used in defending against charges of "inadequate security" in civil litigation. This book is an update of a beginning text which has been used successfully in colleges and universities for twenty years. It updates the techniques of various specialties along with current technological approaches towards solving those security-related issues. It has left unchanged the philosophical, moral, and ethical approach to the security procedures, the abandonment of which has led to literally thousands of lawsuits against security departments and private guard companies, alleging "inadequate security" procedures, hiring and training. New technologies, in almost every subcategory of the security industry, have changed the profession forever. Computers have assumed much of the performance formerly conducted by both trained and untrained security officers. Skills have changed to a degree where knowledge is determined by one's level of computer awareness. This book presents many of those new techniques and developments.

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