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Summary
Summary
Occupational safety and health -- safe work in a safe environment. The challenge, of course, is how to make this happen and make it happen economically. A comprehensive study presenting the state of the art in the field, Handbook of Occupational Safety and Health provides a wide range of methods along with specific criteria for assessing hazard and exposure in the workplace environment. More importantly, it also offers ways to reduce these hazards. The book supplies a compendium of interdisciplinary knowledge that includes physical, chemical, and psychosocial risk factors in the working environment, highlighting issues in Occupational Safety and Health management.
The book discusses the ergonomic principles of shaping products, workstands, and work processes, highlighting the significance of international requirements for competitiveness in world economy. It presents the scientific basis for each safety and health issue, followed by well-illustrated case studies to demonstrate the concepts and theories and their application in real-world situations. Based on the results of international research, the book covers:
Psychological capabilities of humans in the working environment Basic risk factors in the working environment Law-based protection of labor The effects of hazards in work processes Basic directions in shaping conditions of occupational safety and ergonomicsDeveloped by a team of renowned contributors, the book includes strategies for creating safe working conditions, accurately assessing hazards posed by harmful environmental factors, and preventing occupational accidents and diseases. Meticulously designed to be user-friendly, it provides the tools to create a safety culture beginning at the enterprise level through to the individual employee.
Table of Contents
Preface | p. xi |
Introduction: Occupational Safety and Health: From the Past, through the Present, and into the Future | p. xiii |
About the Editor | p. xxiii |
Contributors | p. xxv |
Part I Legal Labour Protection | |
Chapter 1 Legal Labour Protection | p. 3 |
Part II Psychophysical Capabilities of Humans in the Working Environment | |
Chapter 2 The Physiology of Work | p. 23 |
Chapter 3 Selected Issues of Occupational Biomechanics | p. 43 |
Chapter 4 Psychosocial Risk in the Workplace and Its Reduction | p. 59 |
Chapter 5 The Physiology of Stress | p. 87 |
Part III Basic Hazards in the Work Environment | |
Chapter 6 Harmful Chemical Agents in the Work Environment | p. 103 |
Chapter 7 Dusts | p. 139 |
Chapter 8 Vibroacoustic Hazards | p. 153 |
Chapter 9 Electromagnetic Hazards in the Workplace | p. 199 |
Chapter 10 Static Electricity | p. 219 |
Chapter 11 Electric Current | p. 233 |
Chapter 12 Electric Lighting for Indoor Workplaces and Workstations | p. 247 |
Chapter 13 Noncoherent Optical Radiation | p. 267 |
Chapter 14 Laser Radiation | p. 289 |
Chapter 15 Ionising Radiation | p. 297 |
Chapter 16 Thermal Loads at Workstations | p. 327 |
Chapter 17 Atmospheric Pressure (Increase and Decrease) | p. 347 |
Chapter 18 Mechanical Hazards | p. 359 |
Chapter 19 Biological Agents | p. 385 |
Part IV The Effects of Hazards on Work Processes | |
Chapter 20 Occupational Diseases | p. 403 |
Chapter 21 Accidents at Work | p. 417 |
Chapter 22 Major Industrial Accidents | p. 449 |
Part V Basic Directions for Shaping Occupational Safety and Ergonomics | |
Chapter 23 Occupational Risk Assessment | p. 473 |
Chapter 24 Work-Related Activities: Rules and Methods for Assessment | p. 483 |
Chapter 25 Shift Work | p. 497 |
Chapter 26 Personal Protective Equipment | p. 515 |
Chapter 27 Shaping the Safety and Ergonomics of Machinery in the Process of Design and Use | p. 551 |
Chapter 28 Basic Principles for Protective Equipment Application | p. 579 |
Chapter 29 Methods, Standards, and Models of Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems | p. 593 |
Chapter 30 Education in Occupational Safety and Ergonomics | p. 617 |
Index | p. 625 |