Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of Health and Safety in the Health Care Environment --- Epidemiology --- Back Injury Prevention in Health Care --- Emerging Infectious Diseases --- Disinfection and Infection Control --- Progress in Preventing Sharps Injures in the United States, --- Violence in the Health Care Industry --- Prevention of Slip, Trip, and Fall Hazards for Workers in Hospital Settings --- Ergonomics --- Tuberculosis Engineering Controls --- Electrocautery Smoke: Reasons for Scavenging--- Safe Use of Ethylene Oxide in the Hospital Environment --- Monitoring Aldehydes --- Pentamidine --- Trace Anesthetic Gas --- Cost–Benefit --- Clinical Approach to Glove Dermatitis and Latex Allergy --- Latex Glove Use: Essentials in Modern Hospital Safety --- Health and Safety Hazards of Shiftwork: Implications for Health Care Workers and Strategies for Prevention --- Radiation Protection in Hospitals --- Reproductive Hazards in Hospitals --- Medical Waste --- The Occupational Hazards of Home Health Care --- Caring Until It Hurts: How Nursing Work Is Becoming the Most Dangerous Job in America --- Service Employees International Union --- Laboratory Safety --- Biological Exposure Index Testing: Two Case Studies --- Functions and Staffing of a Hospital Safety Office --- Education for Action: An Innovative Approach to Training Hospital Employees --- Case Studies of Health Care Workers in the Compensation System