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Implementing Digital Forensic Readiness From Reactive to Proactive Process Second Edition

Implementing Digital Forensic Readiness From Reactive to Proactive Process Second Edition

Implementing Digital Forensic Readiness: From Reactive to Proactive Process Second Edition presents the optimal way for digital forensic and IT security professionals to implement a proactive approach to digital forensics. The book details how digital forensic processes can align strategically with business operations and an already existing information and data security program. Detailing proper collection preservation storage and presentation of digital evidence the procedures outlined illustrate how digital evidence can be an essential tool in mitigating risk and redusing the impact of both internal and external digital incidents disputes and crimes. By utilizing a digital forensic readiness approach and stances a company’s preparedness and ability to take action quickly and respond as needed. In addition this approach enhances the ability to gather evidence as well as the relevance reliability and credibility of any such evidence. New chapters to this edition include Chapter 4 on Code of Ethics and Standards Chapter 5 on Digital Forensics as a Business and Chapter 10 on Establishing Legal Admissibility. This book offers best practices to professionals on enhancing their digital forensic program or how to start and develop one the right way for effective forensic readiness in any corporate or enterprise setting. | Implementing Digital Forensic Readiness From Reactive to Proactive Process Second Edition

GBP 66.99
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Measuring Safety Management Performance

Measuring Safety Management Performance

Measuring Safety Management Performance lists and explains the difference between lagging and leading measures of safety management performance. It informs the reader how to use both proactive and reactive safety performance indicators and explains that consequence measurement is not an accurate reflection of the organization’s safety effort. It suggests managements’ Safety Performance Indicators (SPI) should be changed to proactive positive measures of action and activities which can be controlled and accurately measured. A roadmap of a holistic system for measurement is offered that covers health and safety performance. It shows how management is traditionally informed about where they have been by information provided relating to injury data rather than proactive measurable and controllable data on accident prevention efforts provided by the health and safety management system (SMS) which indicate where they are going. This highly practical book features examples of safety performance indicators provides positive guidelines for accurate safety performance measurement and is based on actual workplace experiences. It explains the strengths and weaknesses of proactive and reactive measurement metrics and gives examples of leading and lagging safety performance indicators. This book will be an ideal read for professionals and graduate students in the fields of occupational health and safety ergonomics and human factors engineering. It will have resonance with managers and professionals engaged in health and safety provisions at their place of work.

GBP 89.99
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Industrial Maintenance Techniques Stories and Cases

Industrial Maintenance Techniques Stories and Cases

This book explains the tools and processes that allow changes in the way maintenance works. It allows you to learn industrial maintenance and reliability concepts and how to improve the maintenance performance so you can move from reactive maintenance to proactive maintenance. This book includes real cases that exemplify concepts of maintenance and reliability. It presents a diagram with practical evidence and explains how to move from reactive to proactive maintenance. It's written in a storytelling style that keeps the attention of the reader and provides tools for young and experienced professionals. This book is useful for anyone working in the maintenance and reliability fields as well as plant engineers and industrial engineers and managers in general. | Industrial Maintenance Techniques Stories and Cases

GBP 46.99
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Enterprise Security Architecture A Business-Driven Approach

Enterprise Security Architecture A Business-Driven Approach

Security is too important to be left in the hands of just one department or employee—it’s a concern of an entire enterprise. Enterprise Security Architecture shows that having a comprehensive plan requires more than the purchase of security software—it requires a framework for developing and maintaining a system that is proactive. The book is based around the SABSA layered framework. It provides a structured approach to the steps and processes involved in developing security architectures. It also considers how some of the major business issues likely to be encountered can be resolved. | Enterprise Security Architecture A Business-Driven Approach

GBP 52.99
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Managing Violence in the Workplace

Managing Violence in the Workplace

Managing Violence in the Workplace is a prescription that contains many lists of do's and don'ts and how to's for proactive and reactive responses to workplace violence. The authors have analyzed numerous incidents in the workplace and constructed how to guidelines. Be prepared for managing workplace violence. Develop procedures to reduce the potential for violence create contingency plans fulfill your legal and moral obligation to employees and the public reduce your company's liability and provide a safer environment for all. Who can benefit from Managing Violence in the Workplace? Any organizational executive risk manager security or human resource professional. anyone working to create a comprehensive organizational program for response to potential and actual incidents of workplace violence.

GBP 160.00
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Disinfection and Decontamination A Practical Handbook

Disinfection and Decontamination A Practical Handbook

This book describes various methods of decontamination and how the methods work. There is a discussion of the various cleaning and disinfection methods utilized along with details of how to qualify these methods. It also describes new technologies that may be useful in the battle for decontamination across industries. Finally this book provides a single resource on how one can address contamination issues for a variety of manufacturing processes and industries. Explores new technologies that may be useful in the battle for decontaminationExamines various methods of decontamination and how the methods workAddresses contamination issues for a variety of manufacturing processes and industriesDescribes how to detect contaminants as well as how to deal with contaminants that are presentIncludes methods for both decontamination (reaction) and preventing contamination (proactive) | Disinfection and Decontamination A Practical Handbook

GBP 44.99
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Safety Management Systems in Aviation

Safety Management Systems in Aviation

Safety Management Systems in Aviation presents the quality management underpinnings of SMS. The four components that must be designed into proactive safety are: Safety Policy Safety Risk Management Safety Assurance and Safety Promotion. Including coverage on the cultures of regulatory organizations and expanded coverage on culture assessment the book considers the nexus between cultural maturity and safety management performance. This third edition features new coverage of international requirements and implications for harmonization across international boundaries. In addition the book includes new chapters and sections examples a hypothetical airline-oriented safety scenario and case studies to enhance and reinforce student understanding. The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate aviation students taking Safety Management and Aviation Safety courses. It also functions as a valuable reference tool for SMS practitioners.

GBP 49.99
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IT Governance and Information Security Guides Standards and Frameworks

IT Governance and Information Security Guides Standards and Frameworks

IT governance seems to be one of the best strategies to optimize IT assets in an economic context dominated by information innovation and the race for performance. The multiplication of internal and external data and increased digital management collaboration and sharing platforms exposes organizations to ever-growing risks. Understanding the threats assessing the risks adapting the organization selecting and implementing the appropriate controls and implementing a management system are the activities required to establish proactive security governance that will provide management and customers the assurance of an effective mechanism to manage risks. IT Governance and Information Security: Guides Standards and Frameworks is a fundamental resource to discover IT governance and information security. This book focuses on the guides standards and maturity frameworks for adopting an efficient IT governance and information security strategy in the organization. It describes numerous case studies from an international perspective and brings together industry standards and research from scientific databases. In this way this book clearly illustrates the issues problems and trends related to the topic while promoting the international perspectives of readers. This book offers comprehensive coverage of the essential topics including: IT governance guides and practices; IT service management as a key pillar for IT governance; Cloud computing as a key pillar for Agile IT governance; Information security governance and maturity frameworks. In this new book the authors share their experience to help you navigate today’s dangerous information security terrain and take proactive steps to measure your company’s IT governance and information security maturity and prepare your organization to survive thrive and keep your data safe. It aspires to provide a relevant reference for executive managers CISOs cybersecurity professionals engineers and researchers interested in exploring and implementing efficient IT governance and information security strategies. | IT Governance and Information Security Guides Standards and Frameworks

GBP 59.99
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Catalytic Naphtha Reforming Process

Catalytic Naphtha Reforming Process

Based on the author’s decades of years of experience in oil refining Catalytic Naphtha Reforming Process conveys essential information on key concepts operations and practices of catalytic naphtha reforming technologies and associated oil refining processes. The book reviews collective technical and operational advancements with respect to efficient use of catalysts and catalytic reformers in oil refining and incorporates key advancements from recent developments in catalytic reforming technologies and processes. High octane reformate gasoline blendstock production via the use of high performing continuous catalyst regenerative processes is emphasized for regulated environmentally friendly gasoline. The benefits of timely effective process unit monitoring are covered in this book. Some of the principal objectives of this book include the need to emphasize more proactive approaches in the planning operations and maintenance of catalytic reforming units and oil refineries. A number of recommendations are provided for enhancing the operations reliability and productivity of catalytic reformers and oil refineries.

GBP 44.99
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A Practical Guide to Understanding Managing and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports

A Practical Guide to Understanding Managing and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports

A Practical Guide to Understanding Managing and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports provides team leaders and team members with a strategy for developing the elements of risk assessment into a readable and beneficial report. The authors believe that successful management of the risk assessment team is a key factor is quality reports. Leadership first clarifies the roles of each participant and the unique technical factors of their respective disciplines. Teamwork is achieved through an emphasis on common language and procedures. Belluck and Benjamin explore a variety of techniques for creating accurate and useful reports. An example is Proactive Risk Assessment which breaks a project into discrete parts to be delivered on an interim basis. This method based on iterative review drastically increases the chance of detecting errors while they can still be corrected. The authors emphasize rigorous standards by which reports are audited evaluated and critiqued. The goal is to create reports that are accurate useful and adaptable on an industry-wide basis.

GBP 44.99
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Fermented Food Products

Fermented Food Products

Fermented food play an important proactive role in the human diet. In many developing and under developed countries fermented food is a cheap source of nutrition. Currently more than 3500 different fermented foods are consumed by humans throughout the world; many are indigenous and produced in small quantities however the consumption of many fermented foods has gradually increased. Fermented Food Products presents in-depth insights into various microbes involved in the production of fermented foods throughout the world. It also focuses on recent developments in the fermented food microbiology field along with biochemical changes that are happening during the fermentation process. • Describes various fermented food products especially indigenous products• Presents health benefits of fermented food products• Explains mechans involved in the production of fermented foods• Discusses molecular tools and its applications and therapeutic uses of fermented foodsThe book provides a comprehensive account about diversified ethnic fermented food products. Readers will get updated information regarding various types of fermented food products and will learn the effect these fermented food products have on human health.

GBP 180.00
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The Cause Effect and Control of Accidental Loss

The Cause Effect and Control of Accidental Loss

The Cause Effect and Control of Accidental Loss takes the reader through 15 phases of a typical workplace accident and shows how accidents can be prevented by the introduction of safety management controls in the form of a structured health and safety management system (SMS). It proposes that once the event has been triggered there is no certainty as to the outcome so workplaces should rely on proactive safety actions rather than reactive ones. Now fully updated this new edition expands on the important concepts from the first edition including hazard identification risk assessment flawed safety management systems the potential for loss and management control. This title: Challenges the paradigm that the measure of consequence (losses) is a good indicator of safety effort Introduces three luck factors that determine the course of the accident sequence Explains what causes accidents their consequences and how to prevent them Showcases accident immediate causes including high-risk (unsafe) acts and high-risk (unsafe) conditions The text is an essential read for professionals graduate students and academics in the field of occupational health safety and industrial hygiene.

GBP 68.99
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Water Distribution System Monitoring A Practical Approach for Evaluating Drinking Water Quality

Water Distribution System Monitoring A Practical Approach for Evaluating Drinking Water Quality

To keep drinking water safe involves more than following the letter of the law. This book introduces a comprehensive perspective and a proactive step-by-step approach to maintaining drinking water quality in distribution systems and aids in delivering verifiably safe and economical water to end users. This second edition is updated throughout and reflects the latest processes for improving drinking water quality in water systems and bringing those systems into compliance with the Lead and Copper Rule the Disinfection By-Products Rule and the Total Coliform Rule. It also presents the latest techniques for calming discolored water issues keeping microbiological growth and biofilm formation in check and preventing the formation of pinhole leaks in copper pipes. The book also aids in determining side effects of treatment chemicals achieving simultaneous compliance with multiple regulations and optimizing treatment chemical dosages. A typical water distribution system is complex and chaotic with varying piping configurations water flows chemical reactions and microbiological activity. It is therefore no surprise that monitoring and assessing water quality can be a daunting task. Water Distribution System Monitoring: A Practical Approach for Evaluating Drinking Water Quality simplifies this task by providing the tools for well-defined and measurable control of water quality. | Water Distribution System Monitoring A Practical Approach for Evaluating Drinking Water Quality

GBP 74.99
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Harvest of Fish and Wildlife New Paradigms for Sustainable Management

Harvest of Fish and Wildlife New Paradigms for Sustainable Management

Harvest of Fish and Wildlife: New Paradigms for Sustainable Management unites experts in wildlife and fishery sciences for an interdisciplinary overview of harvest management. This book presents unique insights for embracing the complete social-ecological system to ensure a sustainable future. It educates users on evolutionary and population dynamics; social and political influences; hunter and angler behavior; decision processes; impacts of regulations; and stakeholder involvement. Features: Written by twenty-four teams of leading scientists and managers. Promotes transparent justification for fishing and hunting regulations. Provides examples for integrating decision making into management. Emphasizes creativity in management by integrating art and science. This book appeals to population biologists evolutionary biologists and social scientists. It is a key resource for on-the-ground managers and research scientists developing harvesting applications. As the book’s contributors explain: “Making decisions that are robust to uncertainty…is a paradigm shift with a lot of potential to improve outcomes for fish and wildlife populations. ” –Andrew Tyre and Brigitte Tenhumberg “Temporal shifts in system states…must somehow be anticipated and dealt with to derive harvest policies that remain optimal in the long term. ” –Michael Conroy “Proactive effective management of sportspersons…will be essential in the new paradigm of harvest management. ” –Matthew Gruntorad and Christopher Chizinski | Harvest of Fish and Wildlife New Paradigms for Sustainable Management

GBP 66.99
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Global Environmental Policy Concepts Principles and Practice

Global Environmental Policy Concepts Principles and Practice

Environmental policy is often practiced reactively with each crisis addressed as an isolated event. Focusing on development of proactive policies Global Environment Policy: Concepts Principles and Practice provides the essential scientific and socioeconomic framework for formulating pragmatic and comprehensive environmental policies. It discusses topics of interest to American and international audiences. Beginning with basic concepts the book proceeds successively on to more advanced principles theories and practices for developing and implementing comprehensive environmental policy solutions. Topics are introduced in a logical yet connected user-friendly manner. Using practical case studies and examples the book illustrates both the power and limitations of theoretical approaches. It defines the scope and nature of the environmental policy problem outlining its origins and evolution and introduces the policy frameworks of the United Nations European Union and the United States. Each chapter begins with a case study and ends with a problem set; the questions are designed to elicit practical and critical thinking. The book ends with two capstone problems that exemplify nearly every major topic and aspect presented in this book. Upon completion students should possess the competency required to examine a real world problem evaluate it in terms of the concepts principles and tools described throughout the book and develop a practical policy solution for resolving that problem. | Global Environmental Policy Concepts Principles and Practice

GBP 74.99
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Security Patch Management

Security Patch Management

Although the patch management process is neither exceedingly technical nor extremely complicated it is still perceived as a complex issue that’s often left to the last minute or resolved with products that automate the task. Effective patch management is not about technology; it’s about having a formal process in place that can deploy patches to vulnerable systems quickly. Helping you figure out exactly what to patch and which patches to use Security Patch Management provides detailed guidance through the process of creating and implementing an effective and efficient patch management process. It uses a format that is easy-to-understand and applicable regardless of the operating system network device or patch deployment tool. The author illustrates the proper implementation of patches on devices and systems within various infrastructures to provide the insight required to:Design your own patch release process and keep it action ready Test the effectiveness of your patches Keep up with the latest patch releases Prioritize the vulnerabilities that need to be addressed Apply patches quickly and without draining essential network resources This book supplies the tools and guidelines you need to stay one step ahead of the exploits on the horizon. It will help you establish a patch management process that not only protects your organization against zero-day attacks but also helps you become more proactive when it comes to this critical facet of information security.

GBP 59.99
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Developing a Safety and Health Program

Developing a Safety and Health Program

Reflecting changes in the field during the ten years since the publication of the first edition Developing a Safety and Health Program Second Edition examines the elements of a safety and health program and delineates how to incorporate them into an organization’s safety efforts. It begins by defining safety policy and providing an overview of OSHA and other regulatory agencies. It covers hazard communication safety training and describes how to write material safety data sheets how to maintain a good fire loss control program and procedures for developing an emergency response plan. The Second Edition includes:Changes all companies must make to be proactive in their security in the wake of 9/11 and the creation of the department of homeland securityAdditional coverage of labels signs and placards; the national incident management system; and homeland securityUpdated information on safety hazardous materials management and accident investigationNew information on fire loss control programs emergency response plans and personal protective equipmentChanges in regulations and standards within the safety health and environmental management industryDiscussion of how advanced management concepts such as participated management can improve preventative programs and decrease the risk of cumulative trauma disordersThe book discusses how to reduce equipment-related injuries through more advanced lockout/tagout procedures and safety checklists to ensure that everything is covered. The author addresses the special considerations important in planning for disasters and terrorist attacks. He provides the basic knowledge of OSHA NFPA and other regulations needed to assist and define what an enterprise must have when developing a program with the different elements of safety. Each chapter contains questions to test comprehe

GBP 59.99
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Jet Fuel Toxicology

Jet Fuel Toxicology

Currently serving as a resource for the National Center for Toxological Research in their work with the Gulf Coast oil spill this book presents current research conducted primarily by the airforce on the toxic effects of JP-8 jet fuel on the pulmonary immune dermal and nervous systems. In all the book considers 13 toxicology studies of significance the results of which are currently shaping US armed services policy. It will enable all of the hydrocarbon industry to make better choices regarding fuel handling. Due to its widespread use jet fuel is thought to be the largest toxicant exposure risk for U. S. Armed Services personnel. Taking a proactive approach to the potential dangers of repeated human exposure to hydrocarbon fuels the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) sponsored a number of research projects during the last 20 years investigating health effects resulting from specific exposure to JP-8 (Jet Propellant-8). Jet Fuel Toxicology summarizes the newest and most important results of these extensive research programs carried out by hydrocarbon fuel research groups throughout the U. S. Each book chapter highlights one specific research area from the many topical areas comprising jet fuel toxicology. After examining the contents and general action of JP-8 the book looks at how the fuel affects various body functions highlighted by: Effects on daily inhalation on the respiratory systemAcute and long-term neurotoxicological and neurobehavioral effects Both local and systemic toxicity following exposure through the skinImmunotoxicity from pulmonary and dermal exposuresGenetic damage as evidenced in studies of the blood and bone marrow of mice In all the book considers 13 major toxicology areas of study the results of which will enable all of the hydrocarbon industry to make

GBP 59.99
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Cognitive Digital Twins for Smart Lifecycle Management of Built Environment and Infrastructure Challenges Opportunities and Practices

Cognitive Digital Twins for Smart Lifecycle Management of Built Environment and Infrastructure Challenges Opportunities and Practices

This book provides knowledge into Cognitive Digital Twins for smart lifecycle management of built environment and infrastructure focusing on challenges and opportunities. It focuses on the challenges and opportunities of data-driven cognitive systems by integrating the heterogeneous data from multiple resources that can easily be used in a machine learning model and adjust the algorithms. It comprises Digital Twins incorporating cognitive features that will enable sensing complex and unpredicted behavior and reason about dynamic strategies for process optimization to support decision-making in lifecycle management of the built environment and infrastructure. The book introduces the Knowledge Graph (KG)-centric framework for Cognitive Digital Twins involving process modeling and simulation ontology-based Knowledge Graph analytics for process optimizations and interfaces for data operability. It offers contributions of Cognitive Digital Twins for the integration of IoT Big data AI smart sensors machine learning and communication technologies all connected to a novel paradigm of self-learning hybrid models with proactive cognitive capabilities. The book presents the topologies of models described for autonomous real time interpretation and decision-making support of complex system development based on Cognitive Digital Twins with applications in critical domains such as maintenance of complex engineering assets in built environment and infrastructure. It offers the essential material to enlighten pertinent research communities of the state-of-the-art research and the latest development in the area of Cognitive Digital Twins as well as a valuable reference for planners designers developers and ICT experts who are working towards the development and implementation of autonomous Cognitive IoT based on big data analytics and context–aware computing. | Cognitive Digital Twins for Smart Lifecycle Management of Built Environment and Infrastructure Challenges Opportunities and Practices

GBP 135.00
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The Distributed Functions of Emergency Management and Homeland Security An Assessment of Professions Involved in Response to Disasters and T

The Distributed Functions of Emergency Management and Homeland Security An Assessment of Professions Involved in Response to Disasters and T

The Distributed Functions of Emergency Management and Homeland Security outlines the roles and responsibilities of various individuals and agencies involved in homeland security and all aspects of emergency management. Each chapter focuses on the practical and applied aspects of a range of public servants in various departments and the organizations that they represent. Rather than presenting a theoretical exploration alone the book examines the practical knowledge and hands-on skills related to various functions and how their decisions and actions play into the larger framework of safety and security —in the public private and nonprofit sectors. Every professional has a unique and integral part to play in fulfilling their roles and obligations whether it be in relation to prevention mitigation preparedness response or recovery operations. Personnel that frequently come to mind in such scenarios include emergency managers geographers and land-use planners EMTs and paramedics fire fighters police officers public health officials nurses public administrators and public information officers. And while these individuals are integral to homeland security and emergency management there are other professionals that also perform essential duties that—while they aren’t first-to-mind—are vital to efforts relating to terrorism and disasters; this includes pilots in the aviation sector the military attorneys psychologists and forensic professionals serving in pathology DNA and dentistry roles. Chapters provide a holistic rendering of the homeland security and emergency management landscape to present all these various professional capabilities and contributions. This includes how current functions are coordinated as well as how future efforts might change relative to a more proactive all-hazards and holistic approach. As such the book will be a useful resource for students and practitioners to understand the dynamic professions—and various disciplines and fields—that impact disaster and terrorism preparedness and response capabilities. | The Distributed Functions of Emergency Management and Homeland Security An Assessment of Professions Involved in Response to Disasters and T

GBP 48.99
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Hospitality Security Managing Security in Today’s Hotel Nightlife Entertainment and Tourism Environment

Hospitality Security Managing Security in Today’s Hotel Nightlife Entertainment and Tourism Environment

Hospitality Security: Managing Security in Today’s Hotel Nightlife Entertainment and Tourism Environment Second Edition provides experience-based proven methods for preventing and resolving the challenges faced by today’s hospitality security staff and leadership. The lodging component of a hospitality environment creates challenges to the security professional by its complex set of assets and amenities—especially when combined with gaming environments. Whether the reader is establishing or improving a professional proactive proprietary security force or the manager of a boutique hotel the practical methods described herein are applicable to everyone. Author Darrell Clifton takes the reader through a logical and methodical process to first evaluate what risks are inherent to hospitality environments how to assess those risks through threat and vulnerability assessments and methods to mitigate eliminate or transfer them. The book stresses the importance of prevention and investigation into the root causes of incidents as a tool for avoiding future undesirable events. This is especially important in that each registered guest brings with them their own unique set of circumstances family values problems and social issues. The security function must operate to protect their individual rights their right to privacy and their desire to enjoy the facilities they are patronizing while contributing to the revenue stream. This must be balanced with the obligation or duty to provide reasonable care from foreseeable harm by the hotel to avoid incidents and litigation. Clifton an experienced industry veteran clearly establishes and identifies practical reasonable and cost-effective ways to accomplish this balancing of guest enjoyment with guest protection. This new edition includes expanded content on premises liability security force behavioral recognition workplace violence active shooter scenarios evacuation planning social media and guest reviews and hotel scams. Additional coverage on nightclubs and bars has been added including four entirely new chapters on specialized security for events and venues crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) advances in technology and industry trends for the gaming and hospitality sector. Ideal for novices and veterans alike Hospitality Security Second Edition is an accessible reader-friendly reference that enables security directors to evaluate what risks are inherent to hospitality environments to analyze those risks through threat and vulnerability assessments and to develop methods to mitigate or eliminate them—all the while keeping customers and personnel safe and improving the bottom line. | Hospitality Security Managing Security in Today’s Hotel Nightlife Entertainment and Tourism Environment

GBP 56.99
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