A Report On E-C Translation Of Industrial Safety And Health For Infrastructure Services

With the concept of industrial safety and occupational health being put forward, an increasing number of enterprise managers do pay attention to the health and safety of their employees. However, legal requirements and academic research based on industrial safety is scarce at present in China.This is a report to study the translation from Chinese to English of industrial safety and health. Industrial Safety and Health for Infrastructure Services deals with transportation, the utilities, administrative and waste management and remediation sectors. It provides guidance on how to eliminate health and safety hazard happened in the workplace. Chapter 18 Personal Protective Equipment(PPE) and Controls in the book, which elaborates the way to set up an effective PPE program, is chosen as the translation text. Based on specific hazard assessment, this excerpt describes the whole body protection, including eyes, face, head, legs, feet, hands and ears, putting emphasis on respiratory protection. Under the guide of cohesion theory, discourse cohesion devices, which mainly embodied in the use of lexical, anaphoric, structural and logic way, are reflected throughout the text. It is efficient to improve the C-E translation by rewriting, reproducing and adding the source language. With the unique syntactic features, passive voice, the original belongs to the field of safety engineering, which is a branch of scientific and technical English. For the purpose of readability, it is possible to balance the voice by properly using subject-less sentences, voice and supplying a subject. By taking command of cohesion theory, one can understand the source text comprehensively and translate it effectively as well as have an overall grasp of both source and target text.By translating the excerpt from Industrial Safety and Health for Infrastructure Services, the author tries to introduce PPE management concepts from western countries, providing reference for domestic companies on establishing the management procedure and also providing experiences of translating this kind of text.