Pocket Consultant: Occupational Health

Professor Kerry Gardiner, Professor of Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Professor David Rees, Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand. National Institute for Occupational Health. Johannesburg, South Africa. Professor Anil Adisesh, Associate Professor and Division Director Occupational Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Head of Division Occupational Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Professor David Zalk, Director of Occupational Hygiene; University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Global Program on Occupational Health Practice Online, San Jose, California, USA Professor Malcolm Harrington, CBE, Emeritus Professor of Occupational Medicine, University of Birmingham, UK.

Foreword vii 1 Introduction 1 2 Occupational Health Services - An International Perspective 10 3 Occupational Diseases 23 4 Occupational Infections 58 5 Clinical Evaluations 77 6 Occupational Toxicology 87 7 Occupational Cancer 127 8 Occupational Hygiene - Gases, Vapours, Dusts and Fibres 139 9 Physical Hazards - Light, Heat, Noise, Vibration, Pressure and Radiation 167 10 Musculoskeletal Disorders 216 11 Psychosocial Aspects of the Workplace 224 12 Risk Assessment 249 13 Risk Management 298 14 Principles of Occupational Epidemiology 309 15 Control of Airborne Contaminants 328 16 Personal Protection of the Worker 351 17 Tertiary Prevention 373 18 Special Issues in Occupational Health 377 19 Expert and Medicolegal Report Writing 439 20 Ethical Aspects of Occupational Health 445 Index 455