Book reviews: Medical Center Occupational Healthy & Safety by RJ McCuney (editor), Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, USA, 1999, ISBN: 0-7817-2198-9

Abstract

This text provides useful guidance to physicians, nurses and other professionals called on to protect the health care worker. The book is particularly relevant to large hospitals and is oriented towards the occupational health and safety of those working in clinical and research areas. The reader will not take long to realise that this is written with a specific country in mind. The plethora of standards, regulations, data and examples provided or referred to in the text are almost entirely American. As a consequence, differences in opinion as to the method or level of control for some hazards may emerge in the Australian reader's mind.