Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

In the process of nation building, the health of the working population becomes a key factor.

In this book, a methodology integrating qualitative reasoning and bond graphs is developed to construct intelligent supervisory control systems.

One critical barrier leading to successful implementation of flexible manufacturing and related automated systems is the ever-increasing complexity of their modeling, analysis, simulation, and control.

This book presents a powerful hybrid intelligent system based on fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms and related intelligent techniques.

Soft computing is a branch of computing which, unlike hard computing, can deal with uncertain, imprecise and inexact data.

Parallel processing is a very important technique for improving the performance of various software development and maintenance activities.

This volume presents recent research in reliability and quality theory and its applications by many leading experts in the field.

Over the past several years, cooperative control and optimization have increasingly played a larger and more important role in many aspects of military sciences, biology, communications, robotics, and decision making.

This review volume is devoted to a discussion of analogies and differences of complex production systems - natural, as in biological cells, or man-made, as in economic systems or industrial production.

This book comprehensively reviews the considerations of nanotechnology elaborated in philosophy, ethics, and the social sciences and systematizes and develops them further.

Since 2012, industrial overcapacity has become an increasingly serious problem in China, against the backdrop of domestic economic slowdown and continued downturn in international markets.

What is the scope and what are the limits of research in industrial relations?

Is it possible for mediation to strengthen the effectiveness of international commercial arbitration?

Latest Edition: Textbook of Occupational Medicine Practice (4th Edition)This book provides a link between occupational health and clinical practice.

Safety has become very important because each year a vast number of people die due to workplace and other accidents.

This book takes a very practical approach to radiation protection and presents very readable information for anyone working in the radiation field or with radioactive material.

This book focuses on underexploited data drawn from various legal disputes over the Doraleh Container Terminal in order to paint a portrait of SSC when it comes to infrastructure financing and construction in Africa as provided both by the UAE and China.

This book presents the background and context of an urban health issue, research findings, and recommendations for policy/decision-makers and action-takers.

This book examines interactions and discusses intersectionality between public international law and private international law.

Risk Management in Outer Space Activities assesses selected risks associated with space activities, from an Australian and New Zealand perspective.

This book examines the practice of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as it stands today in the context of matrimonial disputes and for providing gender justice for women undergoing matrimonial litigation.

This monograph is based on pollution control technologies available to deal with water and air pollution.

In light of the novel corona virus outbreak in December 2019 and its subsequent impact on entire world as a global pandemic, the book attempts to provide integrated risk assessment on Covid -19 like pandemics, as well as to understand the societal, environment and economic impact of the outbreak in various sectors of development.

This book addresses the interactions between the domestic courts and the international investment arbitral tribunals, one of the most pressing issues confronting both domestic legal systems and the international legal system.

This book discusses the reform and improvement of Chinese legislation on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects (PFIPs), the goal being to help its implementation in China satisfy international standards.

This book provides up-to-date information on the state of the art in applications of biotechnological and microbiological tools for protecting the environment.

This book is a compilation of the policy briefs produced by the International Science Council's program on Urban Health and Wellbeing: A Systems Approach over the past five years.

This book takes a systems-thinking approach to allow readers to understand how Workplace safety and health (WSH) is an integral part of any organisation.

In the marine environment, single-celled, microscopic, plant-like organisms naturally occur in the well-lit surface layer of any body of water.

This publication is a practical guidebook on environmental risk assessment, especially for watershed-scale management.

This book is devoted to an idea of a second round of codification of certain new rules for treaty interpretation.

This book offers a compendium of diverse essays on emerging legal issues in outer space, written by experts in the field of Space Law from different parts of the globe.

The book aims to provide a comprehensive view of advanced environmental approaches for wastewater treatment, heavy metal removal, pesticide degradation, dye removal, waste management, microbial transformation of environmental contaminants etc.

Marine environment is the largest habitat covering approximately 70% of the total earth surface.

This book contains the 9th Inaugural Lecture Series 2018 of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, delivered by Dafe Otobo on 4 July 2018.

Para la preparación del presente libro se conformaron grupos multidisciplinarios de investigadores provenientes de diferentes instituciones públicas, académicas y científicas.

La presente obra está cimentada en las reflexiones sobre la posible aplicación de los principios del pensamiento complejo en el mundo actual de sector educativo, la salud y los aportes a la salud familiar, comunitaria y territorial en un marco ético vigente; no sin antes considerar los aportes del período antiguo de la humanidad.

Los PGSBC han tenido conceptual y prácticamente un desarrollo que los ha convertido, de ser solo una herramienta de observación y retroalimentación, a ser un componente de los sistemas de gestión con múltiples oportunidades de interactuar con el resto de los componentes de los sistemas, con una potencialidad de involucrar a la gerencia y de construir interacciones entre todos los actores de una organización que faciliten el perfeccionamiento de la cultura de la seguridad de las mismas.

Este libro tiene como objetivo reiterar los conceptos académicos y científicos que han demostrado que la vida es Economía y Salud, y que estas son indisolubles, porque son  una entidad como los bípedos, que necesitan de dos piernas para caminar, o el tren, que requiere de dos rieles para rodar.

El texto que se pone a consideración para los lectores no se constituye en una verdad absoluta sobre los riesgos psicosociales, sino en una serie de elementos que pueden servir como fundamento para el desarrollo de procesos de investigación, reflexión o generación de un nuevo conocimiento que pueda dar respuesta a una serie de problemáticas o dudas por parte de los administradores, psicólogos, profesionales en salud y seguridad en el trabajo, investigadores o personas interesadas en abordar temas relacionados con los riesgos psicosociales de los empleados de cualquier tipo de organización, sea esta pública o privada.

En este libro se acopia la normatividad básica y la Guía Técnica para que cualquier empresa u organización con trabajadores que opere en el territorio colombiano de cumplimiento al mandato legal de aplicar el Sistema de Gestión de la Seguridad y Salud en Trabajo (SGSST) como parte integral del Sistema General de Riesgos Laborales y de la Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo.

Después de muchos años de consultoría y asesoría empresarial en busca de una herramienta para el cambio de los programas de salud en el trabajo, desde el pensamiento lineal al sistémico, nace la obra: Sistema de gestión de riesgos en Seguridad y salud en el trabajo, paso a paso, como una alternativa de solución para encontrar una guía práctica que asegure el éxito de las organizaciones.

Con la aplicación efectiva del manual de calificación de pérdida de capacidad laboral y ocupacional, evidenciamos que es una herramienta de capital importancia para la valoración del daño de la población colombiana.

El estudio del trabajo es una necesidad fundamental para cualquier persona que realice una actividad productiva, pero también es indispensable para las organizaciones de cualquier tipo y, por supuesto, es un factor clave para los emprendedores.

This book analyses the principle of equality from three perspectives: public international law, private international law and EU law.

This book brings together leading and emerging scholars and practitioners to present an overview of how regional, international and transnational courts and tribunals are engaging with the environment.

This book centres on the ways in which the concept of imperativeness has found expression in private international law (PIL) and discusses "e;imperative norms"e;, and "e;imperativeness"e; as their intrinsic quality, examining the rules or principles that protect fundamental interests and/or the values of a state so as to require their application at any cost and without exceptions.

This book centres on the war that raged between Eritrea and Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000, a war that caused great loss of life and tremendous devastation.

This book makes a significant contribution to the comprehension of the law and practice of provisional measures issued by international courts and tribunals, including international commercial arbitration.

This book describes the importance of the goal and scope phase for the entire LCA study.