Occupational Health and Safety Handbook

Protecting worker health requires more than preventing accidents. It requires understanding how work, exposure, human capability, and emerging health threats interact over time.
Occupational Health and Safety Handbook - Volume 7: Occupational Health, Hygiene, Wellbeing, and Public Health Integration provides a comprehensive professional examination of the systems, principles, and practices used to protect physical, psychological, and functional health throughout working life.
The book brings together occupational health, industrial hygiene, exposure assessment and control, occupational disease, biological hazards, ergonomics, musculoskeletal health, fatigue and fitness for work, psychosocial risk, mental health, neurodiversity and inclusion, health surveillance, chronic disease, occupational epidemiology, pandemic preparedness, and integrated worker health.
Particular emphasis is placed on prevention before disease occurs-recognising hazards, assessing exposure, controlling risks at source, verifying the effectiveness of controls, monitoring health appropriately, and using evidence to continually improve working conditions.
The volume also examines the changing relationship between occupational health and public health, including infectious disease, climate-related health risks, workforce diversity, ageing, technological change, digital health, artificial intelligence, and emerging approaches to workplace health security.
Written for occupational health and safety professionals, occupational-health practitioners, hygienists, engineers, managers, consultants, academics, students, regulators, supervisors, and decision-makers, the book combines technical principles with practical and strategic perspectives applicable across industries and jurisdictions.
As Volume 7 of the Occupational Health and Safety Handbook series, it provides a multidisciplinary framework for understanding one essential principle:
Healthy workers depend not only on healthcare, but on healthy work-work that is designed, organised, controlled, and continually improved to prevent avoidable harm.