Table of Contents

1. A General Framework for Assessing Fitness for Work ; 2. Legal Aspects of Fitness for Work ; 3. The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 ; 4. Support and Rehabilitation - Restoring Fitness for Work ; 5. Ethics for Occupational Physicians ; 6. Neurological Disorders ; 7. Mental Health and Psychiatric Disorders ; 8. Epilepsy ; 9. Vision and Eye Disorders ; 10. Hearing and Vestibular Disorders ; 11. Spinal Disorders ; 12. Orthopaedics and Trauma of the Limbs ; 13. Rheumatological Disorders ; 14. Gastrointestinal and Liver Disorders ; 15. Diabetes Mellitus and Other Endocrine Disorders ; 16. Haematological Disorders ; 17. Cardiovascular Disorders ; 18. Respiratory Disorders ; 19. Renal and Urological Disease ; 20. Women at Work ; 21. Fitness for Work Following Surgery ; 22. Dermatological Disorders ; 23. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) ; 24. Alcohol & Drugs Misuse ; 25. Medication ; 26. Work and The Older Employee ; 27. Ill Health Retirement ; 28. Fitness to Drive ; 29. Health Screening ; Appendix 1 - Civil Aviation ; Appendix 2 -Seafarer Fitness ; Appendix 3 - Offshore Workers ; Appendix 4 - The Medical Assessment of Working Divers ; Appendix 5 - General Aspects of Fitness for Work Overseas ; Appendix 6 - Workers exposed to hand-transmitted vibration: Health surveillance and fitness for work ; Appendix 7 - Returning to work after intensive care treatment ; Appendix 8 - Useful addresses and contact details

Reviews

Fitness for Work has now been transformed from a report of a committee to the standard texbook of occupational medicine. ...Four editions in 20 years is a remarkable achievement for any medical textbook and reflects not only the changes and advances in medicine, but also the esteem in which the book is now held. ...Occupational physicians and occupational health nurses are more and more involved in litigation cases and, for this alone, this book should be required reading. ... no occupational physician, occupational health nurse, GP nor any person who may have to sit on, or give evidence to, an industrial tribunal should be without this comprehensive book. s [This book] is virtually an exclusive library in its own right...an organically expanding compendium of contemporary wisdom and reference for many professionals in countless areas of care, research and discovery. The successive forewards and prefaces to all four editions make inspiring and provocative reading, well worth introductory browsing time to realise the full design and value of the work. RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Journal ...the standard textbook of occupational medicine...Four editions in 20 years is a remarkable achievement for any medical textbook and reflects not only the changes and advances in medicine, legislation and the practice of occupational medicine that have occurred, but also the esteem in which the book is now held. Occupational Health