Document ID (ISN) | 78740 |
CIS number |
02-590 |
ISBN(s) |
981-4045-18-7 |
Year |
2001 |
Convention or series no. |
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Author(s) |
Koh D., Siang L.H., Tin L.L., Huang K.Y. Occupational and Environmental Health Society |
Title |
Health at work - A handbook for people who work |
Bibliographic information |
Armour Publishing Pte Ltd, Kent Ridge Post Office, P.O. Box 1193, Singapore 911107, Singapore, 2001. xi, 132p. Illus. Index. |
Abstract |
Aimed at all working persons who desire to adopt a preventive approach to their own health, this publication seeks to encourage the adoption of healthy work practices and lifestyles. Contents: work and health; changing patterns of work, lifestyles and diseases; importance of health protection and promotion; work stress; work with computers; shift work; aches and pains at work; noise and hearing; chemicals at the workplace; preventing illnesses caused by work; personal protective equipment; compensation of occupational diseases; lifestyle and disease; health risk screening at the workplace; preventing travel-related illnesses; avoiding burnout at work; health education and health promotion services in Singapore. |
Descriptors (primary) |
occupational hygiene; training material; safe working methods; occupational diseases |
Descriptors (secondary) |
hygiene and productivity; compensation of occupational diseases; Singapore; shift work; computer terminals; safety and health institutions; training manuals; personal protective equipment; stress factors; medical supervision; musculoskeletal diseases |
Document type |
C - Training manuals, audiovisual material |
Country / State or Province | Singapore |
Subject(s) |
Generalities
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Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
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Browse category(ies) |
OSH training
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