Presents articles on health in the workplace including injuries, physical and mental illnesses, worker's compensation, and social issues.

Intended as a resource for those who have responsibilities to safeguard workers' health and safety, especially in developing countries. Covers the fields of toxicology, occupational hygiene, occupational cancer, occupational diseases of agricultural workers, occupational safety, psycho- social problems and institutions and organizations active in the field of occupational health and safety.

The previous edition of the International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors made history as the first unified source of reliable information drawn from many realms of science and technology and created specifically with ergonomics professionals in mind. It was also a winner of the Best Reference Award 2002 from the Engineering Libraries Division, American Society of Engineering Education, USA, and the Outstanding Academic Title 2002 from Choice Magazine. Not content to rest on his laurels, human factors and ergonomics expert Professor Waldemar Karwowski has overhauled his standard-setting resource, incorporating coverage of tried and true methods, fundamental principles, and major paradigm shifts in philosophy, thought, and design. Demonstrating the truly interdisciplinary nature of this field, these changes make the second edition even more comprehensive, more informative, more, in a word, encyclopedic. Keeping the format popularized by the first edition, the new edition has been completely revised and updated. Divided into 13 sections and organized alphabetically within each section, the entries provide a clear and simple outline of the topics as well as precise and practical information. The book reviews applications, tools, and innovative concepts related to ergonomic research. Technical terms are defined (where possible) within entries as well as in a glossary. Students and professionals will find this format invaluable, whether they have ergonomics, engineering, computing, or psychology backgrounds. Experts and researchers will also find it an excellent source of information on areas beyond the range of their direct interests.

Volume 1 provides information on occupational disease and injury and on the management and health systems that have been developed to recognize, treat and prevent these problems. The volume also covers the basis tools and approaches used to detect, control and keep track of occupational injury and illness. Volume 2 is devoted to physical, psychosocial, environmental and safety hazards, their nature, their occurrence and their prevention and management. Specific health effects of hazards are briefly described. Volume 3 addresses industries and occupations. Each chapter provides an overview on the nature of the industrial process, its potential hazards and appropriate preventive management. Volume 4 contains guides, indexes, the Directory of Experts and complete lists of contents of the Encyclopedia.

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