Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management, this database provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations. The database provides the latest perspectives on topics of widespread concern such as aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety occupational safety, and ergonomics. Health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena having the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself - are reported here. Drawing on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications, Health and Safety Science Abstracts synthesizes the most important new developments in safety science and human factors research.

Subject Coverage
Major areas of coverage include:

• Occupational Safety and Health
• Transportation
• Environmental and Ecology
• Food and Drugs
• Pesticides
• Natural Disasters, Civil Defense, and Emergency Management
• Fire Safety
• Radiation Safety, and Electrical Safety
• Consumer and Recreation Safety
• Ergonomics, and Human Factors
• Diseases, Injuries and Trauma
• Epidemology and Public Health
• Medical Safety
• Toxicology
• Civil and Structural Engineering