Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene

Now in its fourth edition, this book allows for early career occupational hygienists and occupational health and safety professionals or students to develop their basic skills and knowledge to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control workplace hazards that can result in injury, illness, impairment, or affect the well-being of workers and members of the community. Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene: An Introduction, Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive overview of occupational health risks and hazardous environments encountered in a range of industries and organizational settings. This new edition offers information on the current techniques and equipment used in assessing workplace hazards. Methods of assessment are developing at a rapid rate due to the new technologies now available. Featuring new chapters on occupational hygiene statistics and psychosocial hazards and fully updated throughout, leading industry professionals and educators explain how to identify key workplace hazards including chemical agents such as dusts, metals and gases; physical agents such as noise, radiation and extremes of heat and cold; and microbiological agents. The book highlights assessment procedures and processes for identifying exposure levels and explains how to evaluate risk and follow safety guidelines to control and manage these hazards effectively. Highly illustrated, up to date with current Workplace Health and Safety legislation and written in a jargon-free manner, this book will be a bible to any student or professional. Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene: An Introduction, Fourth Edition is an essential reference for students, early career Occupational Hygienists professionals and anyone in an Occupational Health and Safety role.

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.

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