Occupational Health: Risk Assessment and Management

By Krishna G. Rampal and Steven S. Sadhra

This is the first book to integrate all aspects of workplace risk assessment and management, now the overriding emphasis in occupational health.
Topics include: basic concepts and developments; toxic hazards; hazard characteristics and identification; setting standards; requirements of monitoring workplace exposure; contaminants; exposure modeling; risk perception and management; prevention and control; economics; emergency response; health surveillance; auditing; compliance; pesticides, chemicals, carcinogens, biological agents, and radiation; equipment screening; manual handling; stress; and workplace violence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0632041994
• ISBN13: 9780632041992
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 504 Pages