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The second edition of this book is written for the student who is pursuing a degree in occupational health and safety, the physician who seeks to relate medical symptoms to job-related exposures, the plant engineer who must consider health issues in facility design, and the management and union safety representatives who have responsibility for assuring that industrial processes do not present a health hazard to workers. It should also serve as a practical field reference for industrial hygienists in insurance, consulting, and compliance activities who encounter a wide range of industrial operations.
This book differs in organization, approach, and content from the first edition. The level of detail on individual topics has been expanded. Some discussions of workplaces have been eliminated, while information about microelectronics, chemical processing, and plastics fabrication has been added. The information is now presented in chapters which are grouped in reasonable but not rigorous clusters.
The focus of the book continues to be identification of the major health issues in the workplace with an overview of common control approaches. Exposure data selected from published studies have been of demonstrated value to the reader and coverage of such data has been expanded. Epidemiologic and other health status studies have been cited to illustrate that health effects continue to occur in the work settings under discussion and that diligence is required in their review.
Colleagues who practice industrial hygiene in other countries chide occupational health professionals in the United States for being parochial, tending to look only within our own boundaries for the best in contemporary practice. I have attempted to counter this tendency by citing the industrial hygiene practices of other countries. Indeed much of the fresh information presented in this edition has been gathered from outside the United States, particularly from the European Community.
Kind comments on the value of the first edition have usually been accompanied by a request that more detail on processes and materials be presented to ensure a better understanding of a process and its impact on the worker. The author has responded to this request and as a result there is a large increase in the number of figures and tables.
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