Risk Analysis for Environmental and Occupational Health Professionals. (Library Corner).NEHA NEHA National Environmental Health Association NEHA National Executive Housekeepers Association NEHA Northern Estates Homeowners Association (Indianapolis, Indiana) (2002) This book, brought to you by NEHAs Association Research Center, is a primer on risk analysis for environmental and occupational health professionals. Risk analysis draws from a wide spectrum of disciplines, and the book is designed to help professionals sort through the wide array of potential inputs: epidemiology, toxicology toxicology, study of poisons, or toxins, from the standpoint of detection, isolation, identification, and determination of their effects on the human body. Toxicology may be considered the branch of pharmacology devoted to the study of the poisonous effects of drugs. , statistics, geology, chemistry, physics, and biology, as well as psychology, sociology, administration, and a host of newly developing disciplines. Many professionals are convinced that screening risk assessments can play a vital role in managing the broad range of risks in our environment. This book is therefore based on an underlying philosophy of a "screening risk analysis." In keeping with this philosophy, Risk Analysis for Environmental and Occupational Health Professionals has at least four applications: 1. as an introductory text for a course in risk analysis; 2. as preparatory material for more advanced courses; 3. as continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). for environmental and occupational health professionals; and 4. as support for distance education. 220 pages, softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. . Member: $69.95. Nonmember: $79.95. Catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. #1032. |
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