Patty's Industrial Hygiene, Volume 3

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