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ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING PROGRAMS

eGuidelines Online: In association with Engineers Australia, EA Books is developing a web site to host Engineers Australia and other related organisation's guidelines and expert commentaries on standards.

ePublications are ebooks we publish other than Engineers Australia guidelines. They are peer-reviewed publications on a variety of subjects of interest to engineers.

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This page contains a selection of the guidelines available from Engineers Australia. The documents are available as electronic publications, in PDF, or as print publications. You can read a short summary of the publication, select and purchase online without leaving your desk.

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eGUIDELINES ONLINE

Risk Management Strategies Guide
Engineering Science and Technology Professional Standards Society, Engineers Australia
$30 + GST = $33.00

The Guide deals with what Engineers Australia considers to be two key areas of risk exposure, namely an Organisation’s Risks and specific Project Risks for each project undertaken. When preparing a Risk Management Policy Statement/Manual, strategies need to be developed to cater for both areas of risk. Some strategies members might consider for controlling risk exposure in each of these areas are provided.

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NEW EDITION
Safety Case Guideline
Victoria Chapter, Risk Engineering Society, (868k)
Engineers Australia - $20 + GST = $22.00

Managing safety is moving from the isolated application of strictly technical tools to a more robust safety case approach that applies multiple assessment methodologies to demonstrate that both technical and organisational risks are managed effectively.

With the growing emphasis of performance-based legislation, the safety case is not only a mechanism for achieving safety goals but has also become an important liability management tool.

To act effectively as both a technical and liability management tool, safety cases need to have an initial argument for the approaches selected to demonstrate effective safety management. Three types of risk are defined, and seven paradigms for assessing downside risk and three enquiry methods of ‘risk sign off” are described.

This second edition has been prepared in response to significant changes made to Australian Risk Management Standard AS/NZS 4360:2004 and the Victorian Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2007. As a result four major changes have been made.

Statutory and Common Law Safety Cases
The current version of the Safety Case Guideline focuses on statutory safety cases, that is ensuring all statutory and regulatory safety requirements are met. With safety cases increasingly being seen as liability management tools as well as safety management tools, a common law 'duty of care' approach is now being taken. This approach takes into account not only statutory and regulatory safety requirements, but also common law requirements, which focus on ensuring all reasonable practicable precautions are in place.

'Acceptable' to 'Not Intolerable' Risk
In order to meet the common law duty of care, it would appear that risk management is moving away from the concept of 'acceptable' risk to 'not intolerable' risk. This is supported by the cessation of use of the term 'acceptable risk' in the 2004 revision of AS/NZS 4360. For risks not identified as 'intolerable' the common law principle applies, that is, the balance of the significance of the risk versus the effort required to reduce it. This implies that there is no lower limit to risk levels.

'Good Practice' vs. 'Best Practice'
All references to 'best practice' in the Guideline now read 'good practice'. This distinction notes that while 'best practice' is something an organisation aspires to, 'good practice' is something it must legally achieve.

Focus on Controls Rather Than Risk Assessment
This change is supported by amendments to the Victorian Occupational Health & Safety Regulations (effective 1 July 2007) stating that if for a particular risk accepted risk controls exist, then conducting a risk assessment would only delay the implementation of such controls.

The Victorian Chapter of Risk Engineering Society of Engineers Australia has prepared this Guideline in accordance with Victorian legislation. However, professionals in other states should find this a useful guide to preparing a safety case.

2007 0858258382 PDF

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Engineers Australia Salary and Benefits Survey 2007
©Engineers Media 2008

This edition of the Engineers Australia Salary and Benefits Survey is the fifth in the series. Produced by Engineers Media the survey sources data from engineering employers, rather than individuals. The survey was conducted online during November and December 2007. The number of respondents represent well over 13,000 engineers. File size is 1.4MB.

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ISSN:1448-8396 / MEMBERS PRICE: $34.10 (incl GST)

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ISSN:1448-8396 / NON-MEMBERS PRICE: $50.60 (incl GST)

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Computer Aided Design (CAD) Modelling and Mapping for Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
K Michael, 1st Edition, 84pp, (2.62MB).

Written in Australia by a licensed surveyor using the online research and facilities of Australian, European and north American agencies, this manual covers a range of topics relating to computer mapping, land surveying, cadastral databases and GIS. As an introductory text to GIS for professionals; a technical and reference manual for the office; or simply as an insight into industry activities in Australia and other countries this work should prove to be an informative and valuable resource for enginers, surveyors and planners involved with land surveying, GIS technology, mapping and land management.

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ISBN: 0646413708 / PRICE: Only $49.50 (incl GST)

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Design of High-Strength Concrete Members - State-of-the-art
Assoc Prof Priyan Mendis, 140pp, (4MB)
University of Melbourne

Many structures built now have at least some components constructed with high-strength concrete. At present, the Australian Concrete Structures Code, AS3600 and other major codes around the world cover only normal strength concrete.

This publication is an excellent and timely consolidation of state-of-the-art information on high-strength concrete and will become the basis of design in high-strength concrete before the code is revised.

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ISBN: 085825808 / PRICE: Only $33.00 (incl GST)

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The World is Your Client
The autobiography of John Rankine, an enterprising engineer. (3.44MB)

Now you have the opportunity to relive his experiences and learn from of one of the world's most respected engineers.

This book details the life of a doctor's son from Kempsey who established, with his lifelong friend John Hill, the well respected engineering company, Rankine & Hill. He describes how the company won its first project - the British Motor Corporation factory at Zetland; working under house arrest in Baghdad; and how he introduced the first computer into an engineering company in New South Wales.

This is a must read for young engineers looking for a mentor, and those in the profession seeking to improve their commercial skills.

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ISBN: 1858256746 / PRICE: Only $22 (incl GST)

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