Occupational Health and Safety

Guide to Shelfmarks

The main collections of books can be found on the 4th and 5th floor of the Library.

Books in heavy demand are placed in the Short Loan Collection on the ground floor. The Short Loan Collection contains 1 day loan and 3 hour loan books; 7 day loan books are shelved with the ordinary loan books on the upper floors.

Use the Library catalogue to find the exact shelfmark and location for each book. If you are searching for books on a particular topic, use a keyword search.

Occupational health and safety 613.6 or 610.7346
Occupational hazards 363.11
UK industrial safety law 344.410465

Useful Web Links

Gateways

BUBL Homepage Links and information to evaluated sites including health and medical sciences

NHS evidence is the new portal for National Library for Health resources from April 2009.

Intute Intute is the UK's gateway to high quality internet resources

Ergonomics

Ergonomic Design Inc.

Ergonomics Society

Ergoweb provides access to ergonomic resources, case studies and tools for ergonomic evaluation

Spine-health.com Back pain and neck pain patient information

Evidence Based Practice

BandolierA monthly journal produced in Oxford for the NHS R & D Directorate. Internet access to Bandolier is free but may run several months behind the printed version.

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine Contains the EBM Toolbox a collection of useful analytical tools for Evidence Based Medicine and teaching materials including scenarios, worksheets to support the teaching of evidence based medicine. Also includes the EBM Glossary.

Health Evidence Bulletins - Wales Signposts to the best current evidence across a broad range of evidence types and subject areas. Includes RCT's and other high quality evidence. Includes maternity and mental health areas.

NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination A ScHARR introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet provides a comprehensive list of links to Evidence Based Healthcare sites together with information about the site.

NICE - National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Best practice, audit and guidelines

TripDatabase From Centre for Research Support, University of Wales College of Medicine

General

Agency for health care policy & research

BIOSCI/bionet For all the USENET newsgroups, discussion lists and email archives.

BioNet TLTP site Offers access to a Software Compendium of material for teaching and learning and to the BioNet mailbase archive.

Department of Health News, information, some full text reports, statistics etc

European Bioinformatics Institute

Health on the Net The Health on the Net Foundation offers news, conference papers, links to other sites and FREE Medline searching.

Help for Health trust The objective of this trust is to enable people to become active partners in their own health through the dissemination of quality information

Kings' Fund An independent health charity which exists to support the health of the people of London

National Cancer Institutes Bibliographic Database

NHS Centre for Reviews & Dissemination

The Visible Human Anatomically detailed, 3-D representations of the normal male and female human bodies.

World health Organisation (WHO)

Occupational Health

American Association of Occupational Health Nurses

American Board of Industrial Hygiene

American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine

Biosafety Resources on the internet Compiled by ABSA (American Biological Safety Association)

BOHS - British Occupational Hygiene Society

British Safety Council Courses, information, advice for safe working practices and environments.

British Standards Institution (BSI)

Environmental Data Services

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work Good practice, publications and links to world wide sites

European Environment Agency

Harvard Environmental Resources On-line

Hazard Information Foundation

Health & Safety Executive

IOSH - Institute of Occupational Safety & Health

International Occupational Hygiene Association

NIOSH - National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health A rich resource with links and information

Occupational Health and Safety Medical Information Center at the Karolinska Institute

Occupational Health & Safety Net Gateway site. Over 1,300 annotated links to other sites containing a vast amount of information on health and safety.

OSHA

Primary Care Internet Guide Occupational and environmental medicine

University of Edinburgh Health & Safety Services

US Centres for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)