Today's most complete, concise, and up-to-date basic guide to the most critical aspects of occupational safety and health. Designed to be a teaching and learning tool for both classroom and on-line settings, it contains helpful pedagogy supported by web content and resources. It addresses all applicable standards from OSHA, NIOSH, and other US federal and state government regulatory agencies, and covers a wide range of new and emerging trends.

Coverage includes: emerging roles of safety professionals, the safety professional’s role, hot work, nanoscale materials in industrial hygiene, global harmonization of OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard, MRSA in the workplace, accidents and their effects, workers' compensation, accident investigation and reporting, ergonomic hazards, musculoskeletal disorders and cumulative trauma disorders, stress and safety, mechanical hazards and machine safeguarding, hazards of temperature extremes, pressure hazards, electrical hazards, fire hazards and life safety, industrial hygiene and confined spaces, violence in the workplace, noise and vibration hazards, preparing for emergencies and terrorism, bloodborne pathogens in the workplace, and establishing a safety-first corporate culture.