Patty's Industrial Hygiene, Volume 3 Physical and Biological Agents

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.

Barbara Cohrssen is President of Cohrssen Environmental, Inc. and is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and Registered Environmental Assessor. She co-edited the previous edition of both Patty's Toxicology and Patty's Industrial Hygiene. She has over 30 years of experience in occupational and environmental health and safety.

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