Pocket Consultant: Occupational Health (Pocket Consultant)

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. Pocket Consultant: Occupational Health......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Foreword......Page 12 1 Introduction......Page 14 2 Occupational Health Services—an International Perspective......Page 26 3 Occupational Diseases......Page 36 4 Occupational Infections......Page 74 5 Occupational Toxicology......Page 84 6 Occupational Hygiene—Gases, Vapours, Dusts and Fibres......Page 128 7 Physical Hazards—Light, Heat, Noise, Vibration, Pressure and Radiation......Page 154 8 Musculoskeletal Disorders......Page 198 9 Psychosocial Aspects of the Workplace......Page 204 10 Risk Assessment......Page 216 11 Control of Air-borne Contaminants......Page 262 12 Personal Protection of the Worker......Page 284 13 Special Issues in Occupational Health......Page 306 14 Legal Aspects of Occupational Health......Page 320 15 Sources of Information......Page 350 Index......Page 368 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Pocket Consultant: Occupational Health 6 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 Foreword 12 1 Introduction 14 2 Occupational Health Services—an International Perspective 26 3 Occupational Diseases 36 4 Occupational Infections 74 5 Occupational Toxicology 84 6 Occupational Hygiene—Gases, Vapours, Dusts and Fibres 128 7 Physical Hazards—Light, Heat, Noise, Vibration, Pressure and Radiation 154 8 Musculoskeletal Disorders 198 9 Psychosocial Aspects of the Workplace 204 10 Risk Assessment 216 11 Control of Air-borne Contaminants 262 12 Personal Protection of the Worker 284 13 Special Issues in Occupational Health 306 14 Legal Aspects of Occupational Health 320 15 Sources of Information 350 Index 368 Publication,Date:,2006-12-11,ISBN-10,/,ASIN:,1405122218,ISBN-13,/,EAN:,9781405122214 Pocket Consultant: Occupational Health Fifth Edition T.C. Aw, Professor of Occupational Medicine and Head of the Division of Occupational Health, Kent Institute of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, K. Covering both medicine and hygiene, and with additional sections on nursing and law, this fifth edition has been reorganised to mirror the new international regulations on occupational health