ABSTRACT

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book presents a wide range of methods and specific criteria for assessing hazard and exposure in the workplace environment, offering ways to reduce these hazards. This text provides coverage of basic risk factors, law-based protection of labor, shaping conditions of occupational safety and ergonomics, psychophysical capabilities of humans in the working environment, and more.

part |2 pages

Part I. Legal Labour Protection

chapter 1|18 pages

Chapter Legal Labour Protection

part |2 pages

Part II. Psychophysical Capabilities of Humans in the Working Environment

part |2 pages

Part III. Basic Hazards in the Work Environment

chapter 7|14 pages

Chapter Dusts

chapter 8|46 pages

Chapter Vibroacoustic Hazards

chapter 10|14 pages

Static Electricity

chapter 11|14 pages

Electric Current

chapter 13|22 pages

Noncoherent Optical Radiation

chapter 14|8 pages

Laser Radiation

chapter 15|30 pages

Ionising Radiation

chapter 16|20 pages

Thermal Loads at Workstations

chapter 17|12 pages

Atmospheric Pressure (Increase and Decrease)

chapter 18|26 pages

Mechanical Hazards

chapter 19|16 pages

Biological Agents

part |2 pages

Part IV. The Effects of Hazards on Work Processes

chapter 20|14 pages

Chapter Occupational Diseases

chapter 21|32 pages

Chapter Accidents at Work

chapter 22|22 pages

Major Industrial Accidents

part |2 pages

Part V. Basic Directions for Shaping Occupational Safety and Ergonomics