Corporate Health & Safety: Managing Environmental Issues in the Workplace

Comprehensive compilation of information on the most important environmental considerations facing the business community -- Air Quality, Sound and Vibration, EMF's, Bioaerosols, Asbestos, Lead and Cumulative Trauma Disorders. Corporate Health and Safety is designed to consolidate much of the information needed to develop a strong foundation on which to build environmental solutions. The title holds a double meaning, in that the health and safety of corporate personnel is intertwined with the well being of the corporate entity. Potential liability and lost productivity are real issues facing the business community. The authors represent a broad range of knowledge and expertise with each chapter offering a thoughtful and thorough overview of the state of knowledge and technology.

"Corporate Health and Safety, Managing Environmental Issues in the Workplace, an industrial hygiene guide, a hardback book edited by Eric A. George and published by Ergonomics, Inc. of Southampton, PA, confronts the important topic of environmental issues in the workplace through a series of seven essays covering areas ranging from risk analysis and air quality to asbestos and managing ergonomic risks. Each of the seven chapters is an essay by an expert in the field, and while all speak to broad issues which should be of concern to industrialists and managers everywhere, the chapters on the measurement and control of sound and vibration (chapter 3) and on magnetic and electric field measurements, dosimetric techniques and proactive measures (chapter 4) will be of most interest to readers of Electrical Business. Addressed to American readers, and drawing on experience in that country for its examples, nevertheless the informed and authoritative writing, and clear and direct graphic illustrations, graphs and charts etc., make this a book which is equally relevant in Canada, so that it should find its way onto the desk of every manager concerned with potential liability, lost productivity and the quality of life in their manufacturing facility and beyond it." -- Electrical Business, January, 1997