Offering a balance of theory and practice, with guides for further reading, this is a clinical guide for the practitioner in the widest sense: physicians, nurses, occupational hygienists, safety officers, environmental, health officers and personnel managers. With coverage of both medicine and hygiene, and including sections on OH law, it is a primer for appropriate courses and provides all that the interested medical student would need to know.
Acknowledgements vii
Foreword ix
1 Introduction 1
2 Occupational Health Services—an International Perspective 13
3 Occupational Diseases 23
4 Occupational Infections 61
5 Occupational Toxicology 71
6 Occupational Hygiene—Gases, Vapours, Dusts and Fibres 115
7 Physical Hazards—Light, Heat, Noise, Vibration, Pressure and Radiation 141
8 Musculoskeletal Disorders 185
9 Psychosocial Aspects of the Workplace 191
10 Risk Assessment 203
11 Control of Air-borne Contaminants 249
12 Personal Protection of the Worker 271
13 Special Issues in Occupational Health 293
14 Legal Aspects of Occupational Health 307
15 Sources of Information 337
Index 355
Height:235
Width:156
Spine:18
Weight:635.00