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9780632041992

Occupational Health Risk Assessment and Management

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  • ISBN13:

    9780632041992

  • ISBN10:

    0632041994

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-05-04
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This is the first book to integrate all aspects of workplace risk assessment and management, now the overriding emphasis in occupational health. Topics include: basic concepts and developments; toxic hazards; hazard characteristics and identification; setting standards; requirements of monitoring workplace exposure; contaminants; exposure modeling; risk perception and management; prevention and control; economics; emergency response; health surveillance; auditing; compliance; pesticides, chemicals, carcinogens, biological agents, and radiation; equipment screening; manual handling; stress; and workplace violence.

Author Biography

Steven Sadhra is a Reader and lead for Occupational Health - OH - within the College of Medical and Dental Sciences - MDS. He is the programme lead for the MSc in Occupational Health and Continuous Professional Development - CPD - professional courses in OH, which are recognised by various professional bodies including the Faculty of Occupational Medicine - FOM.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
viii
Foreword xi
Section 1 Introduction
Basic concepts and developments in health risk assessment and management
3(19)
Krishna G. Rampal
Steven S. Sadhara
Organizing for risk assessment and management
22(19)
Michael K.B. Molyneux
Section 2 Risk assessment
Toxicological basis of hazard identification
41(15)
Hilary J. Cross
Steven P. Faux
Epidemiological basis of hazard identification
56(22)
David Koh
Adeline Seow
Occupational hazard types and their characteristics
78(20)
Steven S. Sadhra
Hazard identification techniques
98(20)
Steven S. Sadhra
Standard setting in occupational health
118(11)
Leonard S. Levy
Requirements of monitoring exposure to workplace contaminants
129(32)
Steven S. Sadhra
Kerry Gardiner
Exposure modelling
161(16)
Christopher N. Gray
Risk characterization
177(20)
Hani Raafat
Steven S. Sadhra
Section 3 Risk management
Prevention and control of exposures
197(22)
Frank Gill
Economics of risk management
219(27)
Ian Wrightson
Emergency response
246(20)
Chris Whitmore
Risk perception
266(12)
Anne Spurgeon
Risk communication
278(10)
Frank Rose
Health surveillance
288(27)
Tar-Ching Aw
Auditing risk assessment and management
315(29)
Peter G. Nicoll
Demonstrating compliance with the law
344(17)
Linda Goldman
Gillian S. Howard
Section 4 Applications of risk assessment and management in industry: case studies
Agriculture (pesticides)
361(8)
Ian Brown
Assessment of exposure to isocyanates
369(10)
Ian MacKenzie
Vibration
379(11)
Ian J. Lawson
Risk management and manual handling
390(15)
Philip Wynn
Keith Pilling
Risk management and display screen equipment
405(8)
Rodney J. Graves
Janice E. Jones
Biological agents
413(8)
Jeremy R. Beach
Naveen Ratti
Risk assessment and management of asbestos in Malaysian industry
421(7)
Lim Heng Huat
Risk assessment for workers exposed to ionizing radiation
428(10)
John Hipkin
Eric Spence
Alexander Sutherland
Stress
438(10)
Wilfred Howe
Violence at work
448(11)
Stuart C. Whitaker
Appendices
Examples of UK legislation for different occupational hazard types 459(2)
Schedule 3 to Riddor 1995 461(10)
Information sources for the assessment and management of occupational health hazards
Sheila Pantry, Steven S. Sadhra and Christine McRoy 471(8)
Index 479

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