Long description
The Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health is the must-have guide for all practitioners with an interest in workplace factors affecting their patients, and with responsibility for decisions on fitness for work. It brings together current practices, legislation and tools to ensure that occupational health professionals are equipped with a single authoritative guide on how to assess and manage health risks in the workplace. This handbook provides a comprehensive summary of the theory and practice of occupational health. The scope of this text is wide, with twelve sections covering workplace hazards, occupational diseases, occupational health practice, fitness for work, occupational health law, occupational hygiene, toxicology, occupational epidemiology, environmental medicine, safety science, practical procedures and emergencies in occupational health. The authors also address current issues such as Gulf War Syndrome, SARS, and exposure to electromagnetic fields.
Review
***** - Essential for the bookshelf. Occupational Medicine With contributions from the leading lights in the field, this is exactly what it says it is. The foreword is written by national director for Health at Work, Carol Black, who describes this handbook as an authoritative resource; it is indeed. Nursing Standard Content and presentation are excellent throughout, with an uprecedented amount of carefully graded, latest updated information to find and use immediately in every kind of urgent need, whether for immediate hands-on usage or training/testing situations. This handbook is essential for serious students of occupational health as well as those already responsible for workplace life and health at all and any levels. RoSPA Occupational Safety & Health Journal Oxford Handbooks series seems to have succeeded again; this book is comprehensive in coverage of a range of areas in occupational health, and has ready references for most topics. Those working in clinical OH practice would certainly benefit from having this book available in their clinics. s
Table of contents
- SECTION 1: OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS
- 1. Physical hazards
- 2. Chemical hazards
- 3. Biological hazards
- 4. Mechanical and ergonomic hazards
- 5. Psychosocial hazards
- SECTION 2: OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
- 6. Occupational infections
- 7. Respiratory and cardiovascular disorders
- 8. Skin disorders
- 9. Musculoskeletal disorders
- 10. Gastrointestinal and urinary tract disorders
- 11. Eye disorders
- 12. Neurological disorders
- 13. Psychiatric disorders
- 14. Reproductive disorders
- 15. Haematological disorders
- 16. Medically unexplained occupational disorders
- SECTION 3: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH (OH) PRACTICE
- 17. Operational issues
- 18. Ethics
- 19. Policies
- 20. Sickness absence, rehabilitation and retirement
- 21. Principles of risk assessment and risk management
- 22. Health surveillance
- SECTION 4: FITNESS FOR WORK
- 23. Generic fitness for work issues and specific disorders
- 24. Fitness for specific work
- SECTION 5: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH LAW
- 25. UK Health and safety legislation
- 26. Employment law
- 27. Legislation related to occupational health records
- 28. Environmental legislation
- SECTION 6: OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE
- 29. Occupational hygiene overview
- 30. Monitoring exposure
- 31. Biological monitoring
- 32. Prevention and control of exposure
- SECTION 7: TOXICOLOGY
- 33. Principles of toxicology
- SECTION 8: EPIDEMIOLOGY IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
- 34. Epidemiology
- SECTION 9: ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
- 35. Environmental protection
- SECTION 10: SAFETY SCIENCE
- 36. Safety science
- SECTION 11: PRACTICAL PROCEDURES
- 37. Clinical tasks/procedures
- 38. Non-clinical tasks/procedures
- SECTION 12: EMERGENCIES IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
- 39. Acute poisoning
- 40. Non-chemical emergencies
- 41. Terrorism
- THE APPENDICES