Offshore Medicine-Medical Care of Employees in the Offshore Oil Industry
Year: 1987 Language: English Author: R.A.F. COX Genre: Handbook Publisher: Springer Edition: 2nd Edition Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 271 Description: To be asked to prepare a second edition of a book is heartening for any author or editor. Apart from the opportunity to make the corrections and amendments which are inevitable in a practical manual there is also the possibility to make additions which enhance its usefulness. Above all a further edition usually means that the book has been found to be acceptable to a large number of readers and has fulfilled a need. This is indeed the case with Offshore Medicine, which in its description of the medical aspects of offshore work has provided a unique guide to the occupational health of a new industry. The rapid development of offshore exploration for gas and oil which began in the 1960s created a whole new range of related industries. Most attention was focused on the problems of deep diving in the North Sea because of the great expansion of the diving industry, its technological advances and the high mortality of divers in the early years. Diving, however, is only a fraction of the total endeavour concerned with the offshore industry. The much larger population of workers offshore who man the rigs and barges, the toolpushers, helicopter pilots, crane drivers, scaffolders and roustabouts, geologists and so on, so sympathetically described by A. Alvarez in his recent book Offshore, A North Sea Journey, and the harsh and difficult conditions in which they often have to work are sometimes forgotten. Offshore Medicine provides a valuable source of information for those concerned with the health and safety of everyone offshore. The contents of the book confirm the point made by Dr. Robin Cox that it describes a subspecialty of occupational medicine which is not covered by textbooks on that subject. Offshore work is referred to here as being characterised by 'frenetic activity and enormous costs'. Doctor, nurse and medic as part of that activity can contribute to it positively by good and soundly based advice related to offshore conditions. In this the industry is well served for not only is a fit man a good thing in itself, but in such difficult conditions the health and safety of others may depend on his fitness and effectiveness.
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Offshore Medicine-Medical Care of Employees in the Offshore Oil Industry
Language: English
Author: R.A.F. COX
Genre: Handbook
Publisher: Springer
Edition: 2nd Edition
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 271
Description: To be asked to prepare a second edition of a book is heartening for any
author or editor. Apart from the opportunity to make the corrections and
amendments which are inevitable in a practical manual there is also the
possibility to make additions which enhance its usefulness. Above all a
further edition usually means that the book has been found to be acceptable
to a large number of readers and has fulfilled a need. This is indeed
the case with Offshore Medicine, which in its description of the medical
aspects of offshore work has provided a unique guide to the occupational
health of a new industry. The rapid development of offshore exploration
for gas and oil which began in the 1960s created a whole new range of
related industries. Most attention was focused on the problems of deep
diving in the North Sea because of the great expansion of the diving
industry, its technological advances and the high mortality of divers in the
early years. Diving, however, is only a fraction of the total endeavour
concerned with the offshore industry. The much larger population of
workers offshore who man the rigs and barges, the toolpushers, helicopter
pilots, crane drivers, scaffolders and roustabouts, geologists and so
on, so sympathetically described by A. Alvarez in his recent book Offshore,
A North Sea Journey, and the harsh and difficult conditions in
which they often have to work are sometimes forgotten.
Offshore Medicine provides a valuable source of information for those
concerned with the health and safety of everyone offshore. The contents
of the book confirm the point made by Dr. Robin Cox that it describes a
subspecialty of occupational medicine which is not covered by textbooks
on that subject. Offshore work is referred to here as being characterised
by 'frenetic activity and enormous costs'. Doctor, nurse and medic as part
of that activity can contribute to it positively by good and soundly based
advice related to offshore conditions. In this the industry is well served
for not only is a fit man a good thing in itself, but in such difficult
conditions the health and safety of others may depend on his fitness and
effectiveness.
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