Book Title: Achieving acceptable certainty in the workplace
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Book Description: This book was designed to support teaching two postgraduate papers at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. It is laid out in four sections: the first two sections support the two papers I teach (Principles of Health and Safety Management and Identification, Assessment and Control of Hazards and Risks), section three summarises some of the many management and risk techniques a health and safety practitioner should know of and be able to apply, and section four provides definitions of some of the terms used in standards or found in the current edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
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Achieving acceptable certainty in the workplace Copyright © 2025 by Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Achieving acceptable certainty in the workplace Copyright © 2025 by Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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