This revised, fifth edition of Practical Radiation Protection pro¬vides insight into the hazards of applying ionising radiation and the practical methods to control these hazards. The book is a translation of the ninth edition of Praktische Stralingshygiëne (2022), with some corrections to the Dutch text.

The book is intended for anyone who works with open sources, sealed sources or X-ray equipment.

It is aimed at radiation protection officers (RPOs) working with:

• industrial radiography...

This handbook aims at students at high schools, tertiary technical and scientific institutes, to help them in their written and oral communication on Life Science topics. When conducting research work in life sciences, communication plays an important role (such as meetings, gatherings, reporting on experiments, telephoning, writing plan of approaches, reports, letters and emails). This book provides a number of guidelines.

In so many company boardrooms the term ‘maintenance’ often gives those in senior

management an uneasy feeling. Why should this be the case?

The main reason may be due to the fundamental way that they think about business. They

generally think, speak and discuss opportunities, profits, risks, new markets, added value and

costs for their business.

Meanwhile, the maintenance manager generally focuses on techniques, failures, technical

problems and workforce schemes, rather than purely costs ...