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 viiPreface ixUseful Equivalents and Conversion Factors xi Part V Physical Agents 1Ionizing Radiation 3Herman Cember and Thomas E. Johnson Nonionizing Radiation: Lasers 23David H. Sliney Nonionizing Radiation: Broadband Optical 37Margaret L. Phillips and Allene H. Butler Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields 63Kenneth R. Foster and Richard A. Tell Nonionizing Radiation: Extremely Low Frequency 95Mona Shum and Jesse Cooper Noise and Hearing Conservation 107David C. Byrne and Kevin L. Michael Physiological Effects of Altered Barometric Pressure 141Claude A. Piantadosi Hand-Arm Vibration 163Christopher M. Nelson Cold Stress 189Tiina M. Ikäheimo, Kalev Kuklane, Jouni J.K. Jaakkola, and Ingvar HolmérHeat Stress 219Michael D. LarrañagaOccupational Ergonomics: Past, Present, and Future 261Susan Kotowski, Kermit Davis, and Amit BhattacharyaRobotics in the Workplace 287Frank J. Hearl, Vladimir Murashov, John Howard, Hongwei Hsiao, John Sammarco, Brian Lowe, and George LuxbacherPart VI Biological Agents 303Occupational Microbiological Biohazards – Exposure, Detection, and Disease 305Tiina ReponenControl of Biohazards 343Nancy C. BurtonAirborne and Emerging Infectious Diseases 369Augusto Dulanto Chiang and Tara N. PalmoreIndex 391