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Provides the most current information and research available for performing risk assessments on exposed individuals and populations, giving guidance to public health authorities, primary care physicians, and industrial managers Reviews current knowledge on human exposure to selected chemical agents and physical factors in the ambient environment Updates and revises the previous edition, in light of current scientific literature and its significance to public health concerns Includes new chapters...

Occupational Safety and Hygiene VI collects recent papers of selected authors from 21 countries in the domain of occupational safety and hygiene (OSH). The contributions cover a wide range of topics, including:- Occupational safety- Risk assessment- Safety management- Ergonomics- Management systems- Environmental ergonomics- Physical environment- Construction safety, and- Human factors Occupational Safety and Hygiene VI represents the state-of-the-art on the above mentioned domains, and is base...

For the Child, Play Provides a Prime Medium for Positive Interaction with the surrounding world and the discovery of pleasure. However, participation in this formative activity by children with motor disabilities can be difficult. The Ludic Model introduces a method of occupational therapy for physically restricted children in which play is understood as a privileged medium through which children can be encouraged towards holistic development, while discovering pleasure through their own capacit...

Das Buch stellt in Einzelbeitr{gen den gesamten Bereich der Rehabilitationspsychologie dar. Auf der Grundlage aktueller Forschungsergebnissen werden die psychosozialen Aspekte, institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen und psychologischen Interventionsm]glichkeiten sowohl st]rungs}bergreifend als auch st]rungsspezifisch abgehandelt.

This book includes reports which were presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled “Medical Treatment of Intoxications and Decontamination of Chemical Agent in the Area of Terrorist Attack”. The workshop was held on 25-28 January 2005 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Currently, scientists and experts from many countries are working on development and implementation of a readiness for anti terrorist actions. In addition to chemical weapons, terrorists can use various toxic chemicals f...

Grandjean's Fitting the Task has become established as the classic and definitive textbook in ergonomics, since it was first published in 1963. Chris Baber now builds on Grandjean's view of ergonomics as essentially the physical and physiological response of humans to the environment in which they work. Yet in recent years the field has also developed in new directions through research in cognitive ergonomics and macro-ergonomics, and this work can be integrated to form a balanced and powerful...

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This is the first textbook that makes workplace health surveillance accessible to a broad audience. Step-by-step, it shows how to establish or improve a surveillance system. The reader learns about defining objectives, seeking organizational support, forming a surveillance workgroup, collecting data, calculating basic injury and illness statistics, designing databases, analyzing and interpreting surveillance data, setting priorities, making protocols for follow-up and case management, marketing...

How and why do physicians come to regard certain medical disorders as work-related? Is this process merely a matter of gathering and interpreting empirical evidence or is it a complex social phenomenon? In this fascinating book, Allard Dembe studies the histories of three ailments now commonly considered to be work-related-cumulative trauma disorders (especially carpal tunnel syndrome), occupational back pain, and noise-induced hearing loss-and demonstrates that numerous social factors affect wh...

Looking at occupational disease and injury from a public health perspective, this book has been designed as a general guide for public health professionals, state and local departments, industrial hygienists, occupational safety and injury control specialists, worker compensation specialists, epidemiologists, personnel deparments, unions and management. The text covers strategies for prevention of occupational disease and injury, from epidemiology, industrial hygiene and occupational medicine to...

Upon the request of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) the Swedish National Committee for Mechanics organized a colloquium on fatigue, which was held at the Royal Institute of Technology (Kung!. Tekniska Hogskolan) in Stock holm, May 25-27, 1955. 35 lectures were delivered, principally dealing with problems of statistical and basic nature. Among the topics were to be found statis tical theory of fatigue, cumulative damage, mechanism of fatigue, me tallurgical as...

After decades of research by the author and her colleagues into what women do in positions such as bank teller, secretary, waitress, nurse, factory worker, and poultry processor, Karen Messing is astonished to find that for many policy-makers, researchers, and activists, the topic of women's occupational health doesn't exist. Messing investigates different types of occupational health issues for women, notably the controversial topics of male/female differences in jobs, health, and basic biology...

The push for evidence-based practice has increased the demand for high-quality occupational science and occupational therapy research from conceptualisation of the study through to publication. This invaluable collection explores how to produce rigorous qualitative research by presenting and discussing a range of methodologies and methods that can be used in the fields of occupational science and therapy. Each chapter, written by an experienced researcher in the relevant methodology, includes...