THIS TITLE IS FEATURED IN A UNIVERSITY OF UTAH MEDICAL SCHOOL CORRESPONDENCE COURSE WHICH HAS BEEN SELECTED BY A MAJOR CORPORATION FOR ITS HEALTH AND SAFETY PROFESSIONALS IN AUSTRALIA, BANGLADESH, CHINA, INDONESIA, SINGAPORE, AND THAILAND

This popular, practical, guide for health and safety program professionals is now in its third edition. Known as the "pocket MBA" for health and safety program professionals, the book emphasizes practical management techniques and applications that have proven to be particularly helpful in practice. As in previous editions, the book's premise is that when the directors of health and safety programs acquire, polish, and use appropriate management techniques and skills, their programs are more effective and provide greater benefits to the groups they serve. Readers in all types of health and safety programs will find the current edition indispensable in enhancing their communication skills, time management capabilities, and abilities to gain support from decision makers and other senior managers in their organization. The material can be applied immediately to the reader's own job situation, a focus that has made the book uniquely valuable.

Each chapter of the new edition has been revised to include current information. In addition, new chapters have been added in the following areas: planning health care responses to natural disasters, terrorism, and other mass casualty situations, what works and what doesn't in leadership, implementing or expanding health and safety programs; productivity enhancement, and preparing for and providing legal health and safety testimony. In each of these cases one or more collaborators have added their expertise to the discussion.

Appendices include items for new health and safety managers to consider, examples of budget categories; audit instruments for occupational and environmental health and safety components; and a summary of parliamentary procedures to help managers expedite meetings and spot inappropriate attempts to block a program or prevent necessary discussion.

Publication Date: March 2008
Format: Paperback, 480 pages. 

As demands for a safe and drug-free workplace grow, federal requirements and a burgeoning work load require that many medical review functions be carried out by medical review officer assistants (MROAs) and others on the medical review officer (MRO) team. This useful, up-to-the-minute manual has been created to help prepare MROAs for certification and to keep the entire MRO team operating at a peak level of professionalism and efficiency.

Offering a complete view of the medical review process, the Medical Review Officer Team Manual covers business, scientific, legal, ethical and logistical issues. It is an ideal practical manual for MROs and MROAs and those who work with them and use their services, including employers and others interested in workplace drug testing. The guide can also be used as a companion to Swotinsky and Smith's previously published Medical Review Officer's Manual, providing "how to" specifics to help the entire MRO team apply the science and art of medical review.

 

Four years have passed between this fourth edition and the third edition. This latest edition has updates for regulatory compliance and technological changes, including changes to the HHS Mandatory Guidelines and Federal Drug Testing Custody and Control Form effective as of May 10, 2010. It also features more information about (1) nonurine tests; (2) prescription opiates and testing for prescription drugs; and (3) specimen validity testing. This fourth edition has updated endnote references. The text includes citations for some of the less well-known parts of the federal rules, so that readers can more easily locate the source material 

NEW FIFTH EDITION JUST PUBLISHED JUNE 2010!

Practical and easy to use, this "go to" source for guidance on the medical qualification determination of a commercial driver has been revised and updated. Information has been assembled from a variety of sources, including the Federal Register, and distilled by the co-authors for practical use by the clinician conducting the exams.
The fifth edition includes:
*Information on Medical Review Board
*Frequently asked questions from FMSCA
*Includes a model FHWA medical examinationa
*Updated References

Publication Date: 2010
Format: Paperback, 340 pages