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Tratado de Medicina del trabajo

  • 4th Edition
  • July 29, 2024
  • Fernando Gil Hernández
  • Spanish
Los 46 capítulos de los que consta el tratado han sido revisados y actualizados en profundidad; algunos se han fusionado, otros han sido redactados por autores distintos respecto de las ediciones previas y, por último, se ha añadido uno nuevo relativo a la salud laboral y la mujer, así como al impacto de las condiciones laborales sobre la fertilidad y el embarazo. Numerosos capítulos (accidente de trabajo y enfermedad profesional, incapacidad laboral, valoración del daño, derecho sanitario, derecho laboral, patologías emergentes, etc.) adquieren especial relevancia en torno a la pericial en salud ocupacional y prevención de riesgos laborales, de ahí su evidente utilidad práctica para los profesionales del Derecho Laboral o materias afines (graduados en Ciencias del Trabajo y técnicos en Prevención de Riesgos Laborales). Se han seleccionado aquellos temas relativos a la seguridad en el trabajo, la higiene industrial, la ergonomía y la psicosociología que mayor repercusión tienen en la génesis de las patologías. Así, este tratado se centra en la vigilancia de la salud, tarea por excelencia de los Servicios de Prevención para conseguir que las empresas sean más saludables. Tratado de Medicina del Trabajo resultará de especial interés para los residentes de Medicina y Enfermería del Trabajo, cuya formación se integra actualmente en las unidades multiprofesionales de medicina y enfermería del trabajo, y que desarrollarán su actividad en las empresas, las mutuas colaboradoras de la Seguridad Social o los Servicios de Prevención. Por todo ello, se incluyen la clásica patología laboral que afecta a los diferentes órganos y sistemas del organismo humano, la toxicología industrial y otros aspectos de interés en vigilancia de la salud, como son la genética aplicada a la salud laboral, la investigación en Medicina del Trabajo, los protocolos de vigilancia de la salud, y la documentación y la organización de la salud laboral en un Servicio de Prevención. Aborda, además, otras especialidades relacionadas con el medio laboral, como la reumatología o la cardiología, que aportan patologías de alta prevalencia entre la población trabajadora.

Protecting Personnel at Hazardous Waste Sites

  • 2nd Edition
  • October 22, 2013
  • WILLIAM F. MARTIN
  • English
  • eBook
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The second edition of this book brings together a wide range of occupational safety and health recommendations and practices directly applying to hazardous waste site clean ups. In addition to providing the most current information on maximumprotection for clean up personnel, this book is a practical authoritative guide for those involved in clean up operations. The completely updated second edition cites the newest OSHA and NIOSH recommendations which have developed over the past decade and explores the new federal emphasis in hazardous waste site clean ups as Radiation safety, Toxicology, Unexploded ordanance, OSHA training, EPA training and site health and safety plans.

Treating Worker Dissatisfaction During Economic Change

  • 1st Edition
  • January 18, 2013
  • Morley D. Glicken + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 7 0 0 6 - 0
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 7 2 6 2 - 0
In the current economy, companies are expected to turn on a dime in response to changing market needs to stay vibrant. What that means is that companies are constantly reorganizing. Employees are living in a constant state of change. This dynamic in the workplace has affected worker satisfaction, morale, and burnout. This is the first treatment manual to focus on treating job-related issues, whether it's conflict in the workplace, stress, burnout, performance, and more. Divided into two parts, Part One sets the stage with a discussion of the economic climate and how it impacts businesses, how business reacts to it, and how the new business climate affects employees. Part Two lays out the most current research on effectively treating work-related client issues. Individual, group, and organizational interventions are included, along with case examples, practical treatment exercises, checklists, and outlines for treatment.

Responsible Care

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2008
  • Nicholas Cheremisinoff + 2 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 1 - 9 3 3 7 6 2 - 1 6 - 6
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 7 9 9 9 8 5 - 2
Environmental regulations provide protection to the public, workers and the environment. To protect themselves from long-term liabilities, however, companies have to do more than just comply with the basic responsibilities. This handbook is designed to introduce terminology, methodology, tools, procedures and practical guidance for incorporating efficient pollution prevention strategies into the overall business plan. It is a company’s responsibility to protect and control its management of waste and pollution, and a company that fails to do so will ultimately inflict a negative impact on its bottom line, especially in financial performance. Responsible Care delivers critical guidelines and rules of thumb required for industrial managers to improve their companies’ profitability through waste reduction, cleaner production technologies and sound management practices.

Core Curriculum for Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing

  • 3rd Edition
  • December 13, 2005
  • American Association of Occupational Hea
  • English
A comprehensive overview of occupational and environmental health nursing, this book is AAOHN's statement of the scope of practice for this nursing specialty. It represents the latest body of knowledge significant to this field. Written in an outline format, it can be used as a textbook for an occupational and environmental health nursing course, as a clinical reference in a variety of occupational settings, and as a certification review tool. This new edition is based on recent revisions to the AAOHN's Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.

Explosion Hazards in the Process Industries

  • 1st Edition
  • October 1, 2005
  • Rolf K. Eckhoff
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 7 9 9 9 7 2 - 2
Explosions in the process industries injure or kill hundreds, if not thousands, of workers every year. They occur in process plants, refineries, platforms and pipelines all over the world. Millions of dollars are spent repairing damages, replacing equipment and rebuilding facilities in the wake of this destruction. This book explores different types of explosions that can occur in a facility and the necessary steps to guard against them. A clear set of preventative measures, rules and standards combine to make this book a convenient guide to real-world applications. Additional theoretical issues in the use of probabilistic equations and scenarios make this book an absolute necessity for process industry safety.

OSHA 2002 Recordkeeping Simplified

  • 1st Edition
  • October 9, 2002
  • James Roughton
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 1 3 4 3 - 0
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has updated their recordkeeping requirements for the first time since 1971. This results in a significant number of changes for every employer with ten or more employees, which can often cause confusion and failure to comply. OSHA 2002 Recordkeeping Simplified goes beyond the explanation that OSHA supplies to provide an easy understanding of these new requirements.OSHA 2002 Recordkeeping Simplified provides an easy to follow format that allows all those in charge of recordkeeping to comply with the updated standards. The book follows the standards as OSHA provides them and adds commentary in order to explain and simplify. Jim Roughton provides a comparison of the old standards to the new to allow for an easier transition.The text is divided into several major subject sections. First the requirements are addressed to outline new elements compared to the current requirements. Next the supplement information for each subject area is divided into several parts: The first part reviews the relevant sections of the requirement and provides the basic concepts of how recordkeeping works; the second part provides answers to most frequently asked questions about recording and reporting of occupational injuries and illnesses. These questions and answers elaborate on the basic recordkeeping concepts and are further defined in each section. In addition, a series of flow diagrams are used to track the flow of the standard and examples of citations are offered through case histories.

Protecting Personnel at Hazardous Waste Sites

  • 3rd Edition
  • October 4, 1999
  • William Martin + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 3 9 9 5 - 9
The latest edition of Protecting Personnel at Hazardous Waste Sites brings together a wide range of occupational safety and health recommendations and practices directly applying to hazardous waste site cleanups. In addition to providing the most current information on maximum protection for cleanup personnel, this book is a practical, authoritative guide for those involved in cleanup operations. The completely updated third edition cites the newest OSHA and NIOSH recommendations that have developed over the past decade and explores the new federal emphasis in hazardous waste site cleanups such as radiation safety, toxicology, unexploded ordnance, OSHA training, EPA training, and site health and safety plans.

Practical Guide to Occupational Health and Safety

  • 1st Edition
  • July 18, 1996
  • Paul A. Erickson
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 2 4 0 5 7 0 - 9
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 3 9 3 6 - 2
Written with corporate regulatory compliance officers, health and safety managers, loss control managers, and human resource specialists in mind, this book offers workplace-tested strategies for meeting the health and safety needs of a modern corporation. Emphasizing the practical means of achieving compliance with OSHA regulations, this book also provides a unique assessment of the more extensive factors that influence the management of workplace health and safety. The integration of practical regulation strategies with corporate objectives is particularly relevant to graduate curricula in business management, public policy, and occupational medicine.