Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction, Fourth Edition
Redaktion: Reed, Sue

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene:An Introduction, Fourth Edition allows for early career occupational hygienists and safety professionals or students to develop basic skills and knowledge to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control workplace hazards resulting in injury, illness or affect workers and the community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040175903
• Artikelnr.: 72250508

Autorenporträt

Sue Reed is a Fellow member of the AIOH (FAIOH) and a Certified Occupational Hygienist (COH)®, a retired CIH and a past President of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists. Sue has a PhD, a Master of Science (Occupational Hygiene), a Master of Engineering Science and Bachelor of Science (Textile Engineering). Sue has over 45 years' experience in occupational hygiene as a consultant, in government roles, and 35 years as an academic. She is a Honorary Associate Professor at Edith Cowan University, Perth, and a director of a small occupational-hygiene consultancy. Sue has published over 50 scientific papers and technical reports on a range of topics including chemical exposure assessment and control, noise, indoor air quality and OHS education.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
Preface
Editor biography
Author biographies
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and definitions
1. The hazardous work environment: the hygiene challenge
Charles Steer, Melanie Windust and Kate Cole, OAM
2.Occupational health, basic toxicology and epidemiology
Martyn Cross and Geza Benke
3.The concept of the exposure standard
Robert Golec and Ian Firth
4.Occupational Hygiene Statistics
Peter Knott and David Lowry
5.Control of workplace health hazards
Kerrie Burton and Kelly Johnstone
6.Industrial ventilation
Elaine Lindars and Anthony Bamford
7. Personal protective equipment
Mark Reggers and Terry Gorman
8.Aerosols
Linda Apthorpe and Jennifer Hines
9.Metals in the workplace
Ian Firth and Ron Capil
10.Gases and vapours
Aleks Todorovic and Michael Logan
11.Biological monitoring of chemical exposure
Greg O'Donnell and Martin Mazereeuw
12.Indoor air quality
Michael Shepherd and Claire Bird
13.Biological hazards
Margaret Davidson, Ryan Kift, Ken Martinez, and Joshua Schaffer
14.Noise and vibration
Beno Groothoff and Jane Whitelaw
15.Radiation-ionising and non-ionising
Geza Benke and Martin Ralph
16.The thermal environment
Ross Di Corleto and Jodie Britton
17.Lighting
SoYoung Lee, Dino Pisaniello and Bruno Piccoli
18.Occupational hygiene tools and sources
Sue Reed, Linda Apthorpe, Adelle Liebenberg and Ian Firth
Index