Meet the editor

Associate Professor Dr. Kavitha Palaniappan is the academic director at Newcastle Australia Institute of Higher Education, a wholly-owned entity of the University of Newcastle, Australia. She teaches the program of Bachelor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (BEnvOHS). Apart from teaching, Dr. Palaniappan is also actively involved in multi-disciplinary research, including the prevalence of psychosocial illnesses and

their impacts on society, economy and country. She also researches alternative therapies to enhance sleep, yoga and its health benefits, the toxicity of nanomaterials, exposure measurements and hygiene requirements for nano-titanium dioxide, exposure to nano-silver in mattresses and beddings and their health effects, associations between seasonal patterns, climate variables, and dengue risks in Singapore. She is a graduate member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).

Dr. Pamela McCauley is Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Wilson College of Textiles, North Carolina State University. She is an internationally recognized industrial engineering researcher in the development of mathematical models, ergonomics, biomechanics, and leadership in STEM. Dr. McCauley served as the director of the Ergonomics Laboratory in the Department of Industrial Engineering,

University of Central Florida, and as the program director for the National Science Foundation, Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate's I-Corps Program. She previously held the position of Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has written more than 100 technical publications, an internationally used ergonomics textbook, and books on STEM leadership.

Contents

**Section 1**

and Practices

**Section 2**

*by Swarna Weerasinghe*

Agriculture Farm and Allied Activities

*by Thomas Gilliam and Paul Terpeluk*

*Shyam Ranjan Kumar Singh and Anupam Mishra*

Construction as an Example *by Priyadarshini Dasgupta*

**Preface XI**

Sectorial Analysis of Occupational Health and Safety **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 33**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 67**

**Chapter 6 77**

Physiological and Psychosocial Wellbeing **95**

**Chapter 7 97**

The Importance of Exposure Assessment in Blue Collar Jobs:

Occupational Health Hazards Associated with Nigerian Fisheries

Occupational Health and Safety Standards of Foreign Seasonal Farm Workers: Evaluation of Personal Protection Measures, Policies

A Review of Ergonomic Evaluation of Occupational Hazard of Indian

Ergonomic Evaluation of Thermal Stress in a Tunisian Steel Industry

Responsiveness of Occupational Health Risk and Preventive Measures Practice by the Workers Employed in Tannery Occupation in Kanpur, India

*by Gyan Chandra Kashyap, Praveen Chokhandre and Shri Kant Singh*

Muscle Health: The Gateway to Population Health Management

*by Surendra Prasad Tripathi, Surya Pratap Singh Somvanshi,* 

*by Amira Omrane, Taoufik Khalfallah and Lamia Bouzgarrou*

*by Olalekan Jacob Olaoye and Wahab Gbenga Ojebiyi*
