Public Health and Safety Books

This writer should be in politics with his knack for making bad news enjoyable. The book is entertaining, educational, packed with information and evocative of Michael Moore's enthusiasm, even in the face of adversity. His chapter ending safety asides are sometimes side splitting - no injury pun intended! I'd recommend this book to anyone with a sociological curiosity or an industrial safety career or interest. You're bound to learn something new that makes the price of the book worth it!

Please provide me with the followings: 1.the safe distance from the oil well head to the nearest building , pipe lines, oil tanks,etc. 2.the distance between oil/gas drilling rigs and burning off pit. 3.the safe hieghtbetween an air-plane and oil storage tanks on the ground. 4.any guidelines regarding the same above enquirees. thanks very much.

A good overview of points to consider for drafting CMC sections. I found the level detail adequate to provide the necessary background, without being so granular that it put me to sleep. The section on CMO's is particularly good for those who have little or no experience with Contract Manufacturing.

Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health is a consice guide to the career of Environmental Health, and provides an exellent tool for any Enviromental Health Officer. The handbook covers the main areas of Environmental health, and is useful as a all round guide of the career. Clay's is a good study guide, and reference guide for students studying Environmental Health ,and would be an investment to any student as it acts as a good bookcase filled to aid newly qualified students, and when not using it , it acts as a wonderful doorstop. Clay's handbook of Environmental Health is a very good basebook and is very useful to the new EHO starting out in their career.

Do you think your boss is concerned about your health and safety? Probably not until it affects your ability to move dirt. How many mandatory "safety meetings" have you been to where a long list of hazards is read aloud, and then ignored for the rest of the project. So here's a good book for those in the trenches and labs. Chapters on biological hazards (Lyme Disease, Rabies, Valley Fever, Hantavirus, Histoplasmosis, Anthrax, Tetanus, Smallpox) made me think twice about licking bone to see if it sticks to my tongue (throw it in the bag, and give the people in the lab something to do). Perhaps even more horrific is the archaeology of toxic waste; the chemical soup we work in: embalming fluids, tetrachloroethylene, coke, mercury, or just lead. "Dig Fast, Die Young: Unexploded Ordnance and Archaeology" says it in a nut shell. If you wait until your bosses read this book, and expect them to protect you, it will probably be too late.

Before you conclude from the title of this work that its contents are as dry as dust, let me assure you they are not. Notwithstanding its scholarly, measured language and meticulous documentation, this is a passionate, absorbing, and infuriating story of corporate greed and criminal contempt for the health of our country's foundry workers. The authors persuasively argue that the lower the status and power of the workers, the greater was their exposure to occupational health hazards. Despite the efforts of courageous lone voices in government and academia, the facts about silicosis were often suppressed. For example, a prestigious academic hired with industry approval to investigate the relationship between sandblasting and silicosis could not even publish his findings in a U.S. journal; his article was published in Germany instead! That millions of workers suffered severe disability and premature death due to silicosis had nothing to do with ignorance. As in the case of the cigarette industry, the facts were there: what was lacking was the government mandate and power to act on the facts. Anyone who carefully follows this tragic tale of unrelenting, unregulated greed and callousness by the foundries would do well to ponder the overly generalized assaults on the evils of big government in the U.S. Greater accountability and regulation earlier could have saved millions of lives. By the way, as the authors point out, industry was quite willing to embrace big government when it suited them. "Employers who had opposed the inclusion of silicosis... came running to the State pleading for the inclusion... so that they would be protected against the unlimited and terrifying common law damage suits which were being filed."

As an ordained minister, I found that I am able to speak on a much higher level, being able to eliminate the typical reactionary responses we are typical of hearing in this country surrounding the ethics of death. Particularly, for me as it relates the the issue of abortion, has the book been a god-send. Burt has systematically outlined the historical attitudes and public mores surrounding abortion by locating the moment the controversies began. Like most things in society at-large, there are competing interests for every aspect of life. Someone always wants to be in control. I will refrain from giving away too much so that you will be as intrigued as I while reading a couple years ago.

I am a Physical Education teacher and purchased this book for the training and evaluation sections. I thought the training guide was particularly useful in summarizing the basic principles of fitness training. The evaluation section is exceptional and it is the first time I have seen such a thorough explanation in one book. I would highly recommend this book to anyone involved in fitness training or education even though it was directed to police and firefighters. It is well written and researched and I find it a very valuable tool in my field.

A reference and/or text book every first responder should have, read and use!!!

The most clinical and diagnostic of the major works in Occupational & Environmental Medicine. The text includes all the usual (and necessary) approaches to cover this topic: - disease by organ system - disease by chemical / physical cause - disease by industry / business sector

Includes necessary components on ethics and advocacy. Not as program-focussed as other works which seem designed to support medical directors more than diagnostic clinicians.