Occupational Health Risk Assessment and

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.

Steven Sadhra is a Reader and lead for Occupational Health - OH - within the College of Medical and Dental Sciences - MDS. He is the programme lead for the MSc in Occupational Health and Continuous Professional Development - CPD - professional courses in OH, which are recognised by various professional bodies including the Faculty of Occupational Medicine - FOM.

List of contributors

viii

Foreword

xi

Section 1 Introduction

Basic concepts and developments in health risk assessment and management

3

(19)

Krishna G. Rampal

Steven S. Sadhara

Organizing for risk assessment and management

22

(19)

Michael K.B. Molyneux

Section 2 Risk assessment

Toxicological basis of hazard identification

41

(15)

Hilary J. Cross

Steven P. Faux

Epidemiological basis of hazard identification

56

(22)

David Koh

Adeline Seow

Occupational hazard types and their characteristics

78

(20)

Steven S. Sadhra

Hazard identification techniques

98

(20)

Steven S. Sadhra

Standard setting in occupational health

118

(11)

Leonard S. Levy

Requirements of monitoring exposure to workplace contaminants

129

(32)

Steven S. Sadhra

Kerry Gardiner

Exposure modelling

161

(16)

Christopher N. Gray

Risk characterization

177

(20)

Hani Raafat

Steven S. Sadhra

Section 3 Risk management

Prevention and control of exposures

197

(22)

Frank Gill

Economics of risk management

219

(27)

Ian Wrightson

Emergency response

246

(20)

Chris Whitmore

Risk perception

266

(12)

Anne Spurgeon

Risk communication

278

(10)

Frank Rose

Health surveillance

288

(27)

Tar-Ching Aw

Auditing risk assessment and management

315

(29)

Peter G. Nicoll

Demonstrating compliance with the law

344

(17)

Linda Goldman

Gillian S. Howard

Section 4 Applications of risk assessment and management in industry: case studies

Agriculture (pesticides)

361

(8)

Ian Brown

Assessment of exposure to isocyanates

369

(10)

Ian MacKenzie

Vibration

379

(11)

Ian J. Lawson

Risk management and manual handling

390

(15)

Philip Wynn

Keith Pilling

Risk management and display screen equipment

405

(8)

Rodney J. Graves

Janice E. Jones

Biological agents

413

(8)

Jeremy R. Beach

Naveen Ratti

Risk assessment and management of asbestos in Malaysian industry

421

(7)

Lim Heng Huat

Risk assessment for workers exposed to ionizing radiation

428

(10)

John Hipkin

Eric Spence

Alexander Sutherland

Stress

438

(10)

Wilfred Howe

Violence at work

448

(11)

Stuart C. Whitaker

Appendices

Examples of UK legislation for different occupational hazard types

459

(2)

Schedule 3 to Riddor 1995

461

(10)

Information sources for the assessment and management of occupational health hazards

Sheila Pantry, Steven S. Sadhra and Christine McRoy

471

(8)

Index

479

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Occupational Health Risk Assessment and Management

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