Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health

About this book

• Fully updated covering recent legislation, guidelines, and current practice
• A concise, practical reference guide to the whole of occupational health theory and practice
• Includes an emergencies section for urgent treatment
• Covers contemporary issues such as obesity, ageing, rehabilitation, and child protection

New to this edition

• Includes topics on psychiatric emergencies, and summary of psychological therapies
• Includes new information on obesity and work, chronic pain management, writing a policy, child protection, and health effects of worklessness
• Follows latest national and international guidelines, including a new topic on REACH
• Expanded guidance on rehabiliation, work-related stress, and pandemic planning

Fully revised for this second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health provides a concise practice-based guide. Bringing together the latest legislation and guidance with current practice in the field, this is your authoritative guide to assessing and managing health risks in the workplace.

Consisting of twelve sections covering the full breadth of practice, the Handbook includes workplace hazards and diseases, occupational health emergencies, and practical procedures. This second edition is also updated with new information on psychiatric emergencies, psychological therapies, chronic pain management, writing a policy, and obesity. Providing a thorough, easy-to-use guide to the whole of occupational health, this Handbook is the essential resource for all occupational physicians, occupational health nurses, occupational hygienists, and all those dealing with workplace health and fitness, giving you the information you need at your fingertips.

Readership: Aimed primarily at occupational physicians in training, specialists in occupational health, occupational health nurses, general practitioners and hospital doctors, it will also appeal to individuals in other clinical specialties with an interest in workplace factors affecting their patients, and with responsibility for decisions on fitness for work.

Reviews

Review(s) from previous edition

""*****" - Essential for the bookshelf. - Occupational Medicine

"With contributions from the leading lights in the field, this is exactly what it says it is. The foreword is written by national director for Health at Work, Carol Black, who describes this handbook as an authoritative resource; it is indeed." - Nursing Standard

"Content and presentation are excellent throughout, with an uprecedented amount of carefully graded, latest updated information to find and use immediately in every kind of urgent need, whether for immediate hands-on usage or training/testing situations. This handbook is essential for serious students of occupational health as well as those already responsible for workplace life and health at all and any levels." - RoSPA Occupational Safety & Health Journal

" Oxford Handbooks series seems to have succeeded again; this book is comprehensive in coverage of a range of areas in occupational health, and has ready references for most topics. Those working in clinical OH practice would certainly benefit from having this book available in their clinics. s"

"...this book is a fine addition to the occupational physician's library; they may need to keep it chained because there will be many members of the occupational health team who will want to borrow it" - Jean Ross, sciencedirect.com

Table of contents

Section 1 Occupational hazards
1: Physical hazards
2: Chemical hazards
3: Biological hazards
4: Mechanical and ergonomic hazards
5: Psychosocial hazards
Section 2 Occupational diseases
6: Occupational Infections
7: Respiratory and cardiovascular disorders
8: Skin disorders
9: Musculoskeletal disorders
10: Gastrointestinal and urinary tract disorders
11: Eye disorders
12: Neurological disorders
13: Psychiatric disorders
14: Reproductive disorders
15: Haematological disorders
16: Medically unexplained syndromes
Section 3 Occupational health practice
17: Operational issues
18: Ethics
19: Policies
20: Sickness absence, rehabilitation and retirement
21: Risk assessment and risk management
22: Health surveillance
Section 4 Fitness for work
23: Generic fitness for work and specific disorders
24: Fitness for specific work
Section 5 Occupational health law
25: UK Health and Safety law
26: Employment law
27: Law and records
28: Environmental law
Section 6 Occupational hygiene
29: Occupational Hygiene overview
30: Monitoring exposure
31: Biological monitoring
32: Prevention and control of exposure
Section 7 Toxicology
33: Toxicology
Section 8 Epidemiology
34: Epidemiology
Section 9 Environmental medicine
35: Environmental protection
Section 10 Safety science
36: Safety science
Section 11 Practical procedures
37: Clinical tasks and procedures
38: Non-clinical tasks
Section 12 Emergencies in occupational health
39: Acute poisoning
40: Non-chemical emergencies
41: Terrorism
Appendices
A1: Hazard statements for 'health effects' used under CLP Regulations
A2: Consent for occupational health assessment
A3: List of prescribed diseases
A4: List of RIDDOR reportable diseases
A5: Informatics in occupational health
A6: Lung volumes
A7: Height and weight converter and body mass index (BMI) calculator
A8: Agents evaluated by IARC Agents evaluated by IARC as Group 1