Occupational Health: Risk Assessment and

Although a moderately rich body of literature exists which is descriptive of the processes of risk assessment and risk management, following in the shadow of multi-country legislation, Sadhra and Rampal's work provides a worthy compendium of current guidelines for practice. While universality of method in the identification and control of workplace hazards remains as a possible ideal, this most recent work assembles in a clearly written collection of nearly 30 chapters, the contemporary methodology employed in the prevention of occupational illness and injury. As underscored by the editors, risk presents itself at innumerable points in our lives, and daily we assess these situations- do we cross against the traffic light, do we undertake a sport for which we are physically unpre-pared, do we engage in e-commerce investment? We assess in keeping with our personal criteria for successful attainment, and through the use of management techniques, reach our goals most often without mishap. In this dissertation on risk and its control, the modes of assessment and management are extrapolated to the work setting, where risk involves exposure to innumer-able toxic substances and its limitation bespeaks the application of occupational health and safety (OHS) principles and their attendant fiscal and legal relation-ships. The authors In addition to chapters prepared by the editors, some 35 other writers—about half from academe and half from OH services to industry—have contributed material. While most of the authors are from the UK, a few of th