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When the last deep coal mine in Britain closed in 2016 it marked the end of the most transformative era in the history of mankind. In writing this account of the rise and decline of the coal industry and its effects on the health of the miners, of those who worked with coal products and of almost all of us who have breathed in the pollution from its combustion, Professor Seaton points to the often hidden adverse consequences of transformative technologies. He also traces the early history of the...

Workplace Safety: A Guide For Small & Mid-Sized Companies, by Dan Hopwood and Steve Thompson, uses a straight-forward approach to creating the basic elements of a successful safety program. This book will provide updated information and real world examples illustrating how to prevent as well as confront the common health and safety issues that arise in the workplace. It includes information on core OSHA regulatory requirements, safety needs assessment, workers' compensation and insurance, disast...

Hardbound. Contributions to the History of Occupational and Environmental Prevention not only contains most of the presentations from the First International Conference but also includes invited papers of high scientific relevance to enrich and complete the content of this book.Both this publication and the conference are major outcomes of a joint collaboration between Clinica del Lavoro of the Milan University and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Prevention (ISPESL) of Rome th...

"Monitoring for Health Hazards" at work is written for safety and health personnel in all work areas. The text is specifically aimed at safety advisers, occupational health staff, occupational hygienist, trade union members and other staff who have an interest in, and a responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of people in their places of work. Students of occupational hygiene, safety and nursing will find this book an invaluable guide. This third edition of an established text offers a...

From the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief comes the definitive guide to treating - and eliminating - excessive stress in the workplace. Dr. David Posen, a popular speaker and a leading expert on stress mastery, identifies the three biggest problems that contribute to burnout and low productivity: Volume, Velocity, and Abuse. He shares revealing anecdotes and offers clear descriptions of the biology of stress to illustrate how downsizing, economic uncertainty, and technology...

This practical guide-and popular reference-helps you evaluate the efficiency of your company's current safety and health processes and make fact-based decisions that continually improve overall performance. Newly updated, this edition now also shows you how to incorporate safety management system components into your safety performance program and provides you with additional techniques for analyzing safety performance data. Written for safety professionals with limited exposure to statistics...

Beyond the Factory Gates examines the issue of asbestos and health in the USA between the early 1900's to the mid-1970s. Areas covered include the emergence of medical concern about the three fatal diseases related to asbestos (asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma); the actions of the US Navy (the main consumer of asbestos-based insulation products); the response of the federal government before and after enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970; and the roles of organized...

The Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health is the must-have guide for all practitioners with an interest in workplace factors affecting their patients, and with responsibility for decisions on fitness for work. It brings together current practices, legislation and tools to ensure that occupational health professionals are equipped with a single authoritative guide on how to assess and manage health risks in the workplace. This handbook provides a comprehensive summary of the theory and practice...

Information which can pinpoint risk factors in the workplace is a starting point for the preparation of efficient measures to improving the working environment. To this end, most European conutries have established monitoring systems. These systems differ in kind and were built to help policy formation at a national rather than a European level. This publication examines whether such national data can be utilized to describe the working environment at European level, and what they tell us about...

In this comprehensive guide to occupational safety and health (OSH or OHS), the authors have taken an international and holistic perspective, foregoing regional prescriptive models for a self-regulatory, risk management-based approach to health and safety at work. Both technical and human factors are considered in all areas of health and safety management - from hazardous substances and radiation, noise and vibration, to ergonomics, stress, substance abuse, and violence. The book outlines strate...

This important resource describes the different exposures and hazards in the aviation industry, including those of a chemical, physical, physiochemical, biological or psychosocial nature.

Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States. It was in the workplace of this era, argues Christopher Sellers, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape. At the crossroads where medicine and science met business, labor, and the state, industrial hygiene became a crucible for molding midcentury notions of corporate interest and professional disinterest as well as environmental concepts of t...