Reese, Charles

Reese, Charles D. Occupational Health and Safety Management A Practical Approach. 2d ed. Boca Raton, Fla. GRC Press, 2009. A practical guide to identifying hazards and building and implementing a program to address them. 

Fifteen prominent chemical engineers first met in New York more than 60 years ago to plan a continuing literature for their rapidly growing profession. From industry came such pioneer practitioners as Leo H. Baekeland, Arthur D. Litde, Charles L. Reese, John V. N. Dorr, M. C. Whitaker, and R. S. McBride. From the universities came such eminent educators as William H. Walker, Allred H. White, D. D. Jackson, J. H. James, Warren K. Lewis, and Harry A. Curtis. H. C. Parmelee, then editor of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, served as chairman and was joined subsequently by S. D. Kukpatrick as consulting editor. 

Several histories of the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division have been compiled over the last century, including the one written in 1951 by Division Chairman William A. Pardee, which was published in Vol. 43, No. 2 of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (1951). Additional information was found in A History of the American Chemical Society Seventy-Five Eventful Years, by Charles Albert Browne (Historian of the American Chemical Society) and Mary Elvira Weeks, published by the Society in 1952. An update was included in A Century of Chemistry The Role of Chemists and the American Chemical Society, edited by Kenneth M. Reese and H. Skolnik, and published by the Society in 1976. I EC historian David E. Gushee published a Division... 

Written by safety expert Charles D. Reese, the book details the tried and true techniques used by the occupational safety and health community for many years. It also presents the best theoretical methods to help those responsible for occupational safety to develop the best prevention initiative for them and their workforce. Based on the premise that all businesses and industries must face the reality that occupational accidents and illnesses will transpire and the results of these events will have a negative impact on the company s bottom line, the book provides practical examples, easy-to-implement processes, numerous illustrations, and usable forms throughout. 

For 31 years, Dr. Charles D. Reese has been involved with occupational safety and health as an educator, manager, and consnltant. In his early career. Dr. Reese was an industrial hygienist at the National Mine Health and Safety Academy. He later became manager for the nation s occupational trauma research initiative at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health s Division of Safety Research. Dr. Reese has played an integral role in trying to ensure workplace safety and health. As the managing director for the Laborers Health and Safety Fund of North America, he was responsible for the welfare of the 650,000 members of the laborers union in the United States and Canada. 

III, Haynes, 1933, 231. Holland and Pringle s hagiographic sketches of such industrial explorers as Willis Whitney, Leo Baekeland, Arthur D. Little, C. E. K. Mees, and Charles L. Reese give the flavor of contemporary faith in industrial research see III, Holland and Pringle, 1928. 

Charles L. Reese Roger Adams Edward Bartow Edward R. Weidlein Frank C. Whitmore... 

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