Short description
A clinical guide for the practitioner in the widest sense, physicians, nurses, occupational hygienists, safety officers, environmental, health officers and personnel managers.
Long description
This is a clinical guide for the practitioner in the widest sense: physicians, nurses, occupational hygienists, safety officers, environmental, health officers and personnel managers. It is a primer for appropriate courses and provides all that the interested medical student would need to know.
Review
The fifth edition of this respected guidebook balances OH theory and practice and is relevant across the OH disciplines...The breadth of coverage, from Legionnaires' disease to locus of control, and from noise rating curves to retirment on health grounds, gives a lot of punch to this pocket consultant. Occupational Health [at Work], December/January_06/07 Praise for the Fourth Edition: ... unlike many others in the field, [it] fuses occupational medicine and occupational hygiene into one volume... Journal of the Institute of Health Education This is a great little book and I wholeheartedly recommend it. Health & Safety Society Reviews Bulletin At such a modest price this useful introduction can be recommended to all new doctors and hygienists in the specialty. Community Medicine I recommend this book to all occupational health practitioners. It is not a book for the shelf but one for the pocket or handbag, to be referred to at all times. Nursing Standard
Table of contents
- PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction Main sections - several chapters per section(Case-studies for most of the sections and self-assessment) 2. Occupational health services - an international prospective3. Occupational diseases4. Chemicals, gases, dusts and particles5. Light, heat, noise, vibration, pressure and radiation6. Occupational infections7. Risk assessment8. Control of airborne contaminants9. Personal protection of the worker10. Special issues in occupational health11. Psychosocial aspects of the workplace12. Legal aspects of occupational health13. Source of information IndexReferences and further reading for each chapterAppendicesGlossaryUseful contacts (names, addresses, phone & fax, websites, for occupational health and safety organisations world-wide