Since the first edition in 1948, Patty’s Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology has become a flagship publication for Wiley. During its nearly seven decades in print, it has become a standard reference for the fields of occupational health and toxicology. The volumes on industrial hygiene are cornerstone reference works for not only industrial hygienists but also chemists, engineers, toxicologists, lawyers, and occupational safety personnel.
Volume 3 covers Recognition and Evaluation of Physical Agents and Biohazards. All of the chapters have been updated and a new chapter on Robotics has been added. These subjects are increasing in importance to industrial hygienists.
Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Preface ix
Useful Equivalents and Conversion Factors xi
Part V Physical Agents 1
Ionizing Radiation 3
Herman Cember and Thomas E. Johnson
Nonionizing Radiation: Lasers 23
David H. Sliney
Nonionizing Radiation: Broadband Optical 37
Margaret L. Phillips and Allene H. Butler
Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields 63
Kenneth R. Foster and Richard A. Tell
Nonionizing Radiation: Extremely Low Frequency 95
Mona Shum and Jesse Cooper
Noise and Hearing Conservation 107
David C. Byrne and Kevin L. Michael
Physiological Effects of Altered Barometric Pressure 141
Claude A. Piantadosi
Hand-Arm Vibration 163
Christopher M. Nelson
Cold Stress 189
Tiina M. Ikäheimo, Kalev Kuklane, Jouni J.K. Jaakkola, and Ingvar Holmér
Heat Stress 219
Michael D. Larrañaga
Occupational Ergonomics: Past, Present, and Future 261
Susan Kotowski, Kermit Davis, and Amit Bhattacharya
Robotics in the Workplace 287
Frank J. Hearl, Vladimir Murashov, John Howard, Hongwei Hsiao, John Sammarco, Brian Lowe, and George Luxbacher
Part VI Biological Agents 303
Occupational Microbiological Biohazards - Exposure, Detection, and Disease 305
Tiina Reponen
Control of Biohazards 343
Nancy C. Burton
Airborne and Emerging Infectious Diseases 369
Augusto Dulanto Chiang and Tara N. Palmore
Index 391
