Beschreibung:
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.
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 viiForeword ix1 Introduction 12 Occupational Health Services--an International Perspective 133 Occupational Diseases 234 Occupational Infections 615 Occupational Toxicology 716 Occupational Hygiene--Gases, Vapours, Dusts and Fibres 1157 Physical Hazards--Light, Heat, Noise, Vibration, Pressure and Radiation 1418 Musculoskeletal Disorders 1859 Psychosocial Aspects of the Workplace 19110 Risk Assessment 20311 Control of Air-borne Contaminants 24912 Personal Protection of the Worker 27113 Special Issues in Occupational Health 29314 Legal Aspects of Occupational Health 30715 Sources of Information 337Index 355