Author : Lawrence Slote
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 1987-07-24
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Book Description
This comprehensive reference source uses techniques and methods from various disciplines applicable to occupational safety and health, it satisfying the need for a standard reference work in this rapidly growing field. The book is divided into nine parts related to all aspects of the field: ergonomics; insurance; occupational safety and health management and information; occupational safety and health training programs, analytical tools; economic factors; and safety and the law. Individual chapters discuss how to deal with the troubled employee, how to conduct an accident investigation, how to ensure and maintain quality in a medical surveillance program, how to use workers compensation data to identify high-risk groups, how to apply simulation modelling and analysis to occupational safety and health, how to survive workplace litigation, and much more.