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Chapter ​1. Industrial safety issues.-&nbsp;Chapter 2<i>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</i>Advances in industrial safety.- Chapter 3. Industrial fire hazards and its control.- Chapter&nbsp;4. Fire in high rise building.-&nbsp;Chapter 5. Forest fires -&nbsp; Occurrence, Modelling and control.-&nbsp;Chapter 6. Behavioral based safety.-&nbsp;Chapter 7. Occupational health in engineering, process and agricultural industry.-&nbsp;Chapter 8. Protection against incidents of arson and terror attacks.

Dr. N. A. Siddiqui is currently associated with University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, as Professor & Program Director - Health, Safety & Environment and civil Engineering. He pursued his postgraduate degree in Environmental Science and Doctorate in Environmental Biology where he focused on environmental impact assessment. Dr. Siddiqui specializes in the area of safety management, occupational health & safety, environmental pollution, and environmental monitoring and control techniques. He has worked closely with major research centres both nationally and internationally. He has more than 170 research papers to his credit and has participated in several national and international conferences. He has authored 14 books. Dr. Siddiqui has guided more than 200 M.Tech thesis and 21 Ph.D. thesis.<div><br><div>Dr. Faisal Khan is Professor Faisal Khan , Director, MKO Process Safety Centre, College Station, Texas, United States . He is Founder of Centre for Risk Integrity and Safetyand Engineering (C-RISE). His areas of research interest include offshore safety and risk engineering, inherent safety, risk management, and risk-based integrity assessment and management. He is actively involved with multinational oil and gas industries on the issue of safety and asset integrity. He continues to serve subject matter expert to several international organizations. He is the recipient of President Outstanding Research Award of 2012–13, CSChE National Award on Process Safety Management of 2014, President Outstanding Research Supervision Award of 2013–14, and recently Society of Petroleum Engineer award for his contribution in Health, Safety and Risk Engineering. He has authored over 400 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences on safety, risk, and reliability engineering.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Dr. S. M. Tauseef is Professor and Assistant Dean (Research) at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India. He holds an M.S. in Chemical Engineering (Process Design) from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Pondicherry University. Dr. Tauseef’s research interests include process safety, especially forecasting and consequence assessment of accidents in chemical process industries. He has developed methodologies for application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to dense gas dispersion, vapor cloud explosions, and single and multiple pool fires. His other interest is in solid waste management, especially the design of continuously operable vermireactor systems for assorted wastes, and high-rate anaerobic digesters. He has published 80 journal articles, co-authored/edited eight books, three patents, and presented papers at 30 conferences.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Waddah S. Ghanem Al Hashmi is currently appointed to as Senior Director for Logistics and Marine Assurance for the ENOC Group in Dubai, UAE. He is Hon. Chairman for the Energy Institute—Middle East and is also Chairman of the Platform for Connected Leadership, Dubai, UAE. Dr. Waddah holds several academic and vocational qualifications including two PG Diplomas (British Safety Council), an M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences (UAE University), an Executive MBA, and a Doctorate from the University of Bradford in Governance and Leadership. He has received several awards, most notably, the Rashid Prize for Scholarship Excellence in 2007 (Dubai), and the IEMA Sustainability Leader of the Year (UK) in 2019. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Technology Petronas, Malaysia and the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India. He is Fellow of several institutions such as the Energy Institute (EI), Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), Institute of Environmental and Management Assessment (IEMA), and the GCC Board of Directors Institute of which he is also appointed Mentor for directors.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Dr. Vikram Garaniya is currently serving as Acting Director, National Centre for Maritime Engineering and Hydrodynamics (NCMEH) and Associate Head of Research at the Australian Maritime College (AMC)—a specialised institute of the University of Tasmania (UTAS). He is also the Research Leader for the Environment, Energy and Safety Engineering (EES) Research Group — a key focus of this group is coastal environmental research, including air and water pollution. Over the last eight years, in collaboration with industry and other institutions, he has secured many competitive research grants. He has led many externally funded projects, including consultancies with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) and multi-institutional, multi-country projects funded by the International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU). He has published papers in journals of national and international repute.</div></div>

<p>This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, and Allied Sciences 2020. It highlights latest developments in the field of science and technology aimed at improving health and safety in the workplace. The volume comprises content from leading scientists, engineers, and policy makers discussing issues relating to industrial safety, fire hazards and their management in industry, forests and other settings. Also dealt with are issues of occupational health in engineering, process and agricultural industry and protection against incidents of arson and terror attacks. The contents of this volume will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and policy makers alike.</p>

Shares essential information regarding principles and practice of behaviour-based safety programs Aims to provide the learners with concise information of strengths and limitations of this technique Covers the results of BBS implementation in various industries