Offering a balance of theory and practice, with guides for further reading, this is a clinical guide for the practitioner in the widest sense: physicians, nurses, occupational hygienists, safety officers, environmental, health officers and personnel managers. With coverage of both medicine and hygiene, and including sections on OH law, it is a primer for appropriate courses and provides all that the interested medical student would need to know.

Dr Ching Aw, Professor, University of Kent at Canterbury

Dr Kerry Gardiner was the Acting-Director of the Institute of Occupational Health (IOH), University of Birmingham, from mid-2000 to early 2003. He joined the Institute in 1987, having gained approximately a year's field experience as a consultant in London directly after graduating with a degree in Occupational Hygiene. His career at the IOH started as a Research Associate with specific responsibility for a large trans-European respiratory morbidity study; from which he gained his PhD. Despite a multitude of interests his particular area of research revolves around the use of exposure data in exposure-response analyses. Over time, he was appointed to a Lectureship, followed in 1997 by a Senior Lectureship. From March 2000 until April 2001, he was the President of the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS); during this term he spent his time ensuring that the Society contributed actively to Securing Health Together and trying to persuade other Learned/Professional Bodies to work actively together to address the essential tenet of disease/illness prevention. He is currently visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Malcolm Harrington - CBE, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCP, FFOM, FFOM(1), FACE, FPHM, Emeritus Professor of Occupational Health, Univeristy of Birmingham.

Acknowledgements vii

Foreword ix

1 Introduction 1

2 Occupational Health Servicesan International Perspective 13

3 Occupational Diseases 23

4 Occupational Infections 61

5 Occupational Toxicology 71

6 Occupational HygieneGases, Vapours, Dusts and Fibres 115

7 Physical HazardsLight, Heat, Noise, Vibration, Pressure and Radiation 141

8 Musculoskeletal Disorders 185

9 Psychosocial Aspects of the Workplace 191

10 Risk Assessment 203

11 Control of Air-borne Contaminants 249

12 Personal Protection of the Worker 271

13 Special Issues in Occupational Health 293

14 Legal Aspects of Occupational Health 307

15 Sources of Information 337

Index 355