Occupational Health Risk Assessment and Management

List of contributors.
<p>Foreword.</p>
<p>Section 1 Introduction.</p>
<p>Chapter 1 Basic concepts and developments in health risk assessment and management.</p>
<p>Chapter 2 Organizing for risk assessment and management.</p>
<p>Section 2 Risk assessment.</p>
<p>Chapter 3 Toxicological basis of hazard identification.</p>
<p>Chapter 4 Epidemiological basis of hazard identification.</p>
<p>Chapter 5 Occupational hazard types and their characteristics.</p>
<p>Chapter 6 Hazard identification techniques.</p>
<p>Chapter 7 Standard setting in occupational health.</p>
<p>Chapter 8 Requirements of monitoring exposure to workplace contaminants.</p>
<p>Chapter 9 Exposure modelling.</p>
<p>Chapter 10 Risk characterization.</p>
<p>Section 3 Risk management.</p>
<p>Chapter 11 Prevention and control of exposures.</p>
<p>Chapter 12 Economics of risk management.</p>
<p>Chapter 13 Emergency response.</p>
<p>Chapter 14 Risk perception.</p>
<p>Chapter 15 Risk communication.</p>
<p>Chapter 16 Health surveillance.</p>
<p>Chapter 17 Auditing risk assessment and management.</p>
<p>Chapter 18 Demonstrating compliance with the law.</p>
<p>Section 4 Applications of risk assessment and management in industry: case studies.</p>
<p>Chapter 19 Agriculture (pesticides).</p>
<p>Chapter 20 Assessment of exposure to isocyanates.</p>
<p>Chapter 21 Vibration.</p>
<p>Chapter 22 Risk management and manual handling.</p>
<p>Chapter 23 Risk management and display screen equipment.</p>
<p>Chapter 24 Biological agents.</p>
<p>Chapter 25 Risk assessment and management of asbestos in Malaysian industry.</p>
<p>Chapter 26 Risk assessment for workers exposed to ionizing radiation.</p>
<p>Chapter 27 Stress.</p>
<p>Chapter 28 Violence at work.</p>
<p>Appendix 1 Examples of UK legislation for different occupational hazard types.</p>
<p>Appendix 2 Schedule 3 to RIDDOR 1995.</p>
<p>Appendix 3 Information sources for the assessment and management of occupational health hazards.</p>
<p>Index.</p>