Hunter's Diseases of Occupations

Professor Steve Nimmo is a clinical academic and consultant in occupational medicine. He was editor of the journal Occupational Medicine for 7 years. He is the immediate past president of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians. He served in the Royal Navy for 10 years and worked in the National Health for 20 years. He currently works as Chief Medical Officer for a multinational company.Dr Johanna Feary is a clinical academic in occupational lung disease at Imperial College London and the Royal Brompton Hospital. She has published research, book chapters and clinical guidelines on a range of occupational lung diseases and was editor of the European Respiratory Society Monograph on Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease published in 2020. She is a past chair of the British Thoracic Society Specialist Advisory Group on Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease (2022-2025).Professor Neil Greenberg is a consultant academic, occupational and forensic psychiatrist based at King’s College London. He is the current (2026) President of the Society of Occupational Medicine. Neil served in the United Kingdom Military for more than 23 years and has published more than 400 scientific papers and book chapters. John Hobson is a retired consultant occupational physician and former lecturer in occupational medicine at the Universities of Keele, Manchester and Birmingham. He was the editor of The Society of Occupational Medicine’s journal, Occupational Medicine, between 2002 and 2018 and co-editor of the fifth and sixth editions of Fitness For Work, published by OUP.Professor Sir Anthony Newman Taylor was Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at National Heart and Lung Institute and consultant physician at Brompton Hospital, London, where he was Head of a joint Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine between 1982 and 2012. He was Chair of Industrial Injuries Advisory Council between 1996 and 2008, of Independent Medical Expert Group of Armed Forces Compensation Scheme between 2010 and 2019 and of HSE Workplace Health Expert Committee between 2016 and 2025. He is currently chair of the Colt Foundation and Emeritus Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Imperial College, London.Peter Noone is a consultant in occupational medicine and member of the occupational medicine faculty of the Royal College of Physicians of London, UK. He's deputy editor of Occupational Medicine Journal OUP and an Assistant Editor since 2008. He had 30 years experience in occupational medicine working in the NHS and the Irish Health service. He's a past president of the Travel Medicine Society of Ireland and ISOM. He's current a Medical Director for Ireland for Health Partners Group UK.Dr Dipti Patel is a consultant in occupational medicine and travel medicine. She is the Director of the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC), the Chief Medical Officer at the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), and an honorary lecturer in Population Health, Health Services Research, and Primary Care within the School of Health Sciences at Manchester University. Dipti is a Counsellor of the International Society of Travel Medicine. She is a member of the UK Malaria Expert Advisory Group, the Travel Subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, and the WHO International Travel and Health Guideline Development Group.

• PART ONE - GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS Section One: Diagnosis of Occupational Disease: 1: The occupational history2: Occupational exposure to hazardous substances3: Human BiomonitoringSection Two: Extent and Attribution of Occupational Disease: 4: Epidemiological methods and evidence-based occupational medicine5: Attribution of DiseaseSection Three: Legal Issues:6: Compensation Schemes7: Medicolegal reports and the role of the expert witness8: Assessment and reporting when malingering is suspectedPART TWO – DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH CHEMICAL AGENTS:Section One: Occupational Toxicology: 9: Occupational toxicology: general principles10: Hazards and risks in occupational and environmental exposuresSection Two: Metals: 11: Antimony12: Arsenic13: Cadmium14: Chromium15: Cobalt16: Gold17: Lead18: Mercury19: Molybdenum20: Nickel21: Phosphorus22: Silver23: Tungsten24: Silicon25: Lithium26: Aluminium27: Beryllium28: Copper29: Iron30: Magnesium31: Manganese32: Platinum Group Elements33: Polonium34: Thallium35: Tin36: Uranium37: Vanadium38: ZincSction Three: Gases: 39: Gases40: Deliberate release of nerve agents in warfare and by terroristsSection Four: Other Chemical Exposures: 41: Organic Chemicals42: Pesticides and other agrochemicals43: Welding44: The semiconductor industryPART THREE – DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH PHYSICAL AGENTS:Section One: Noise: 45: Sound, noise and the earSection Two: Vibration: 46: Hand-arm vibration syndrome47: Whole body vibrationSection Three: Heat and Cold: 48: Cold and HeatSection Four: Barometric Pressure: 49: Diving and work at increased pressure50: Working at high altitude51: Aviation and Space MedicineSection Five: Radiation: 52: Radiation Medicine53: Non-ionizing radiation - Electromagnetic fields: static, extremely low frequency and radiofrequency fields54: Optical radiation: IR, visible and UV radiationPART FOUR – DISEASES RELATED TO ERGONOMIC AND MECHANICAL FACTORS:Section One: The Musculoskeletal System: 55: Musculoskeletal DisordersPART FIVE – OCCUPATION AND TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES:Section One: Occupational Infections: 56: Occupational Infections57: Zoonoses58: Emerging Infections and PandemicsSection Two: Bioterrorism: 59: BioterrorismPART SIX – WORK AND MENTAL HEALTH:Section One: Work and Stress: 60: Work and health61: Primary prevention of mental health problems in the workplace62: Early detection and intervention for mental health problems in workplace63: Mental Healthcare Provision for Workers64: Addictions and the workplace65: Medically unexplained physical symptomsPART SEVEN – RESPIRATORY DISORDERS:Section One: General Issues:66: Occupational lung diseases: a global perspective67: Chronic airflow limitation, chronic bronchitis and emphysema68: Health effects related to non-industrial workplace indoor environmentsSection Two: Organic Dust Diseases:69: Occupational asthma70: Acute Inhalation Injuries71: Byssinosis and other Cotton Related Conditions72: Hypersensitivity pneumonitisSection Three: Inorganic Dust Diseases: 73: Asbestos and asbestos-related disease74: Epidemiology of asbestos-related diseases75: Silica exposure and silicosis76: Diseases caused by mineral dusts, other than asbestos, silica, beryllium, metals and coal77: Metal Dust and Fumes78: Beryllium and beryllium-related disease79: Coal Workers’ Lung DiseasePART EIGHT – OTHER EFFECTS OF WORKPLACE EXPOSURES:Section One: Occupational Diseases of the Skin: 80: Occupational diseases of the skinSection Two: Occupational Cancers: 81: Occupational cancer: epidemiology, biological mechanisms and biomarkersSection Three: Other Systemic Effects: 82: Nephrotoxic effects of workplace exposures83: Neurotoxic effects of workplace exposures84: Hepatotoxic effects of workplace exposure85: Workplace exposures and reproductive health86: Haematologic and haemopoietic effects of workplace exposures: anaemias, leukaemias and lymphomasSection Four: Shift Work: 87: Shiftwork and long working hours