Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health 2/e (Flexicover) (Oxford Medical Handbooks) - Softcover

Julia Smedley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199651620 ISBN 13: 9780199651627

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

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

"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

"...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

Book Description:

Awarded First Prize in the Primary Healthcare category of the BMA Book Awards 2014.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199651620
• ISBN 13: 9780199651627
• Binding: Flexibound
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 904
• Editor: Julia Smedley, Finlay Dick, Steven Sadhra