My New Reference Book

I ordered this Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health, from PageOne Bookstore in Singapore. Its price is SGD78.52. This book is a newcomer to the oxford handbook series.

This book provides a comprehensive summary of the theory and practice of occupational health. This handbook contains 12 Sections as follows:

1. Occupational hazards

2. Occupational Diseases

3. Occupational Health Practice

4. Fitness for work

5. Occupational Health law

6. Occupational Hygiene

7. Toxicology

8. Epidemiology in occupational health

9. Environmental Medicine

10. Safety science

11. Practical procedures

12. Emergencies in occupational health

Appendices

I found this book is very handy and portable. In every chapter of each sections, there are a list of references.

FYI : I found this very good electronic booklet entitiled " Smart Guide To Start Business" published by DOSH, Malaysia. Click on the title to download your copy.

A Must Buy 'OH Book' for the year 2009

This book is the "MUST BUY" Occupational Health Book for the year 2009. Edited by 2 prominence Malaysian Occupational Health Expert, Dr G Jayakumar & Dr M Retneswari, contains 22 chapters discussing all aspects of occupational health concerning the Health Care workers, contributing by 28 experts in occupational health from both local and international.  This 280 pages hard cover book, was published by Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) and cost only RM88.00

You can buy the book from MMA, call 03-40411375

Reference Books

The Worker at Work: A Textbook Concerned with Men and Women in the Workplace

By Thomas Morris Fraser

Contributor Thomas Morris Fraser

Published by CRC Press, 1989

ISBN 0850664810, 9780850664812

444 pages

The attractiveness of this book lies on the uniqueness of its author. The author, Dr Thomas Morris Fraser was trained in two disciplines - occupational medicine and engineering. He is a former Professor at Department System Design Engineering and Director of Centre for Occupational Health & Safety at University of Waterloo, Canada.

This book covers in detail the two important disciplines of Occupational Health - Ergonomics and Industrial Hygiene. Both disciplines are discussed from their historical aspects as well as their core knowledge contents.

Your can read more info about this book, here