Occupational health and safety
Resources for Occupational health and safety
Occupational health and safety definitions, facts, figures and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
- Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts
Online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
Print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
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Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary
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610.3/29
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TitleMosby's medical, nursing & allied health dictionary
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610.3/22
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To find additional reference items
- Search the Library Catalogue
- Select advanced keyword search
- Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**
medicine AND dictionaries
medicine AND encyclopedias
drugs AND manuals
medicine AND handbooks
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. medicin** will retrieve medicine, medicines, medicinal (use faculty specific example)
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Occupational health and safety books and more
Search the Library Catalogue to find books, videos, CDs
If you know the exact title
- Select title search
- Type in the exact title
- Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection
If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area
- Select advanced keyword search
- Type in keywords from your topic
- Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
e.g. safety culture AND risk
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. medicin** will retrieve medicine, medicines, medicinal
Catalogue search tips:
- Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. ergonomic* AND safety AND Australia
OR
Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
- Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
- Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location
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Occupational health and safety journal articles
Search a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and research reports
Try these first
Complete list of Health and Behavioural Sciences databases
Found a useful reference?
Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database.
Database search tips:
- Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
- Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
- To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords
e.g. safety culture AND ergonomics
- To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords
e.g. industrial safety OR occupational safety
- Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword.
e.g. atom* retrieves atom, atoms, atomic. [use faculty specific example]
- Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material
- Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search
More information: Finding Journal Articles Tutorial
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Occupational health and safety Internet sites
It is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web.
Try the following sites as a starting point.
Occupational health and safety
Ergonomics
- Cornell University ergonomics web
Information from ergonomics research studies and class work by students and faculty in the Cornell Human Factors and Ergonomics Research Group (CHFERG)
Occupational therapy and physiotherapy
- OT Seeker
This database provides abstracts of evidence related to occupational therapy
- PEDro
This database provides abstracts of evidence related to physiotherapy
Legislation
Hazardous substances
- Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
United States Government - the overall mission of OEHHA is to protect and enhance public health and the environment by scientific evaluation of risks posed by hazardous substances
- Pocket guide to Chemical Hazards (NIOSH)
A source of general industrial hygiene information on several hundred chemicals/classes for workers, employers, and occupational health professionals
South Eastern Sydney/Illawarra Area Health Service
Australian sites
International sites
Search engines
Search engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database.
Try these first:
- HealthInsite (Australian)
Aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health.
- Google Scholar
- Anzwers (Australian information)
Directories
Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.
- HealthInsite (Australian)
Aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health. An Australian Government initiative.
- Healthfinder
US Department of Health and Human Services consumer information web site
- WWW Virtual Library
Links to other virtual libraries
- Virtual hospital
A digital library of health information
UOW sites
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