| Description |
xvi, 608 pages ; 24cm |
| Contents |
1. The Occupational Health and Safety Problem -- 2. Perspectives on Occupational Health and Safety -- 3. Explaining Occupational Injury -- 4. Repetition Strain Injury: A Case Study of Occupational Injury -- 5. Occupational Disease, Stress and Illness -- 6. Shiftwork: A Case Study of Occupational Ill Health -- 7. Preventative Occupational Health and Safety Law -- 8. Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation -- 9. Identifying, Monitoring and Assessing Occupational Hazards -- 10. Worker Communication and Involvement in Occupational Health and Safety -- 11. Management Approaches to Occupational Health and Safety -- 12. Occupational Health and Safety Regulation: A New Zealand Perspective |
| Summary |
This book encourages a more holistic, multidisciplinary and participative understanding of, and approach to, managing OHS by bringing together the various social science, medical, ergonomic and other perspectives on occupational health. This edition focuses on the current debates over policies and practices |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Previous ed. published 1991 under title: Managing occupational health and safety in Australia : a multidisciplinary approach / Michael Quinlan and Philip Bohle |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography pages 541-592 |
| Subject |
Industrial hygiene -- Australia.
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Industrial safety -- Australia.
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Industrial hygiene.
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Industrial safety.
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Occupational health and safety
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Occupational health
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| Author |
Quinlan, Michael, 1951-
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| LC no. |
00343318 |
| ISBN |
0732940788 |
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