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can source publications from the AIHA and BOHS. For more information, please contact the administrator
The following titles are those currently in stock and available for immediate purchase.
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- Simplified Monitoring Strategies: First Edition, 2001. How to apply NOHSC's Exposure Standards for Atmospheric Contaminates in the Occupational Environment to Australian Hazardous Substance Legislation
Author(s): Dr. David Grantham
Category: Publication
This short text provides straightforward guidance on the simplest ways of making meaningful measurements in workplaces and being able to compare them with NOHSC's well known exposure standards. The information presented is intended to provide the user with the basic tools for
everyday understanding and use so that they can make meaningful sense in their attempts to comply with hazardous substances legislation. It demonstrates the basic questions on what to sample, when to sample, where to sample, how many measurements to make to gain some degree of
representativeness and how to examine your data for normality or lognormality, statistical significance of measurements, repeat sampling and usefulness of measurements in compliance testing. It provides enough prescriptive detail to help those unfamiliar with occupational hygiene
to understand the extent of making sensible measurements in the workplace. Complex statistical treatment is avoided and readers with a good calculator and basic arithmetical skills should be able to apply the simple statistical procedures.
- Heat Stress Standard & Documentation Developed for Use in the Australian Environment
Author(s): Ross DiCorleto, Ian Firth & Gerry Coles
Category: Publication
The human body must maintain its internal temperature within a very narrow range to achieve a state of well being. The actual level of this temperature is a function of the balance between heat exchange with the external thermal environment and the generation of heat internally by the metabolic processes associated with life and activity. Heat stress is the net heat load to which a worker may be exposed from the combined contributions of metabolic cost of work, environmental factors (i.e., air temperature, humidity, air movement and radiant heat exchange) and clothing requirements. The effects of excessive heat exposures can upset this balance and result in a compromise of safety, efficiency and productivity losses, which precede more serious heat injuries. The effects of exposure to heat may range from a level of discomfort through to a life threatening condition such as heat stroke.
This standard is concerned only with health considerations and not those associated with comfort. The Heat Stress Standard provides guidance in the form of a decision-making process, based on available scientific data (as presented in Documentation included in this booklet), by which such a decision is reached and applied. A tiered risk assessment approach is recommended, starting with a Basic Thermal Risk Assessment, escalating through a detailed analysis using rational methods such as the Predictive Heat Strain index, to heat-strain (physiological) monitoring.
- A Guideline for the Evaluation & Control of Diesel Particulate in the Occupational Environment
Author(s): Alan Rogers & Brian Davies
Category: Publication
The purpose of this guideline is to provide readers with an overview of the current status in respect to diesel particulate and to provide guidance on proven monitoring and control technologies for the workplace. Much of the basic investigative work has been reported from overseas studies and considerable refinement and successful application have been made in Australian industry over the last 15 years, and this is presented and referenced in this document. As the underground mining industry has been the focus of much research (due to potentially higher exposures), much of the detail of this document is mining based, however application to other industrial situations should, in most cases, be similar.
- Simplified Occupational Hygiene Risk Management Strategies
Author(s): Ian Firth, Deborah van Zanten & Gerard Tiernan
Category: Publication
This guidebook is intended to provide the user with some basic tools to conduct risk management for occupational health hazards such as biological, chemical, ergonomic (eg. manual handling), radiation and other physical exposures (eg. noise and vibration). It thus covers hazard identification, exposure characterisation and risk assessment, control and management. It draws strongly from AS/NZS 4360 Risk Management, D Grantham’s Simplified Monitoring Strategies and JR Mulhuasen & J Damiano’s A Strategy for Assessing and Managing Occupational Exposures and the reader is encouraged to also consult these. For the occupational hygienist, exposure assessment and risk assessment cannot be reasonably separated. For this reason, this Guidebook is a companion guide with the Simplified Monitoring Strategies Guidebook, also published by the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists (AIOH).
- Principles of Occupational Health & Hygiene - An Introduction
Edited by Cherilyn Tillman (FAIOH, COH)
Today’s workplaces are full of materials and processes which are potentially hazardous to our health. Industry depends on a large range of naturally occurring and synthetic materials, many of which can adversely affect the health of workers. Even some non-industrial workplaces can contain hazardous
materials or cause exposure to physical or biological agents that can be harmful to health.
Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene offers a systematic and comprehensive overview of occupational health hazards and hazardous environments encountered in a range of industries and organisational settings.
Leading industry professionals and educators explain how to identify key workplace hazards including chemical agents such as dusts, metals and gases; physical agents such as noise, radiation and extremes of heat and cold; and microbiological agents. They outline assessment procedures and processes for identifying exposure levels. They also explain how to evaluate
risk and follow safety guidelines to control and manage these hazards effectively.
Chapters are heavily illustrated with detailed case studies, diagrams, flowcharts
and photos. Practical guidelines are provided for managing each hazard
type.
Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene is an ideal resource for students of Occupational Health and Safety, and a professional reference for Occupational Hygienists, Safety Officers, and anyone working in an
Occupational Health and Safety role.
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- Human & Ecological Risk Assessment - Theory & Practice
Edited by Dr Dennis Paustenbach (PhD)
Dennis J. Paustenbach, Ph.D., CIH, DABT - Dr Dennis Paustenbach is President of ChemRisk, a human and ecological risk assessment consulting firm with three offices nationwide. He was previously President of McLaren-Hart, a 600 person consulting environmental engineering firm and was a Vice President at Exponent (formerly Failure Analysis Associates). He was the founder of ChemRisk, the largest risk-assessment consulting firm in the U.S. during the 1990’s and has resurrected the firm as of June 2003. He earned a BS in Chemical Engineering, an MS in industrial hygiene/toxicology, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology. He is board-certified in toxicology, industrial hygiene, and safety and has more than 20 years of experience in risk assessment, environmental engineering, ecotoxicology, and occupational health. Dennis has specialized in exposure assessment and dose reconstruction for much of the past 15 years and has published about 40 articles and 7 book chapters on the topic. He has presented guest lectures and short courses on exposure assessment throughout the United States and at least five other countries. He has been an adjunct professor at several universities and was a visiting scholar at the Center for Risk Analysis at Harvard. Dennis has directed consulting activities for nearly 700 risk assessments and has published more than 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts in this and related fields.
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