Main description:

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.

Contents:

1 Introduction. 2 Occupational health services - an international perspective. 3 Occupational diseases. 4 Occupational infections. 5 Occupational toxicology. 6 Occupational hygiene - gases, vapours, dusts and fibres. 7 Physical hazards - light, heat, noise, vibration, pressure, and radiation. 8 Musculoskeletal disorders. 9 Psychosocial aspects of the workplace. 10 Risk assessment. 11 Control of air-borne contaminants. 12 Personal protection of the worker. 13 Special issues in occupational health. 14 Legal aspects of occupational health. 15 Sources of information