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Water Plant Safety
Author(s) -
Vaughn James C.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1962.tb00913.x
Subject(s) - work (physics) , water utility , business , filtration (mathematics) , work safety , risk analysis (engineering) , operations management , engineering , environmental engineering , water supply , mathematics , mechanical engineering , statistics
This article discusses safety at a water plant as the elimination of obvious work hazards, the provision of enough of the right kind of protective equipment, and the training of employees in safe work practice. Chicago's South District Filtration Plant is presented as an example of a utility's management directing the practices of a water plant to insure continuously safe working conditions for all employees.