Ergonomics

In the ten years since the publication of the second edition of Human Thermal Environments: The Effects of Hot, Moderate, and Cold Environments on Human Health, Comfort, and Performance, Third Edition, the world has embraced electronic communications, making international collaboration almost instantaneous and global.

Occupational Ergonomics: Principles of Work Design focuses on the fundamentals in ergonomics design and evaluation.

The safety case and its associated reports are quickly becoming not only a mechanism for achieving safety goals, but also a valuable decision-support asset, and a vital industrial liability management tool.

'Behavioural safety' or behaviour-based safety (BBS) has been around as a concept for several decades and is commonly held to mean directly tackling the frontline behaviours that lead to incidents and injury.

This book provides an up-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive coverage of human cold stress from principles and theory to practical application.

The development of a new book about Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and the challenges to managers and engineers is essential because it introduces new lines of research in management and production.

Meeting Diversity in Ergonomics contains 17 groundbreaking, expanded and fully edited professional contributions from the 2006 16th Triennial World Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) identified by the IEA Program Committee.

The Healthcare industry is one of the largest and rapidly developing industries.

In the last 15 years, the field of fire and gas mapping has grown extensively, yet very little is published on the subject.

From uninsured losses to workplace injuries, from absenteeism to addiction, alcohol consumption can have a major impact on the workplace.

Starting from the purchase of heavy equipment and following through to the end of its economic life, this manual explains how to efficiently maintain and operate different types of heavy equipment.

Medical Device Use Error: Root Cause Analysis offers practical guidance on how to methodically discover and explain the root cause of a use error-a mistake-that occurs when someone uses a medical device.

Despite preemptive preparations, disasters can and do occur.

Over the past decade, Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) has been one of the popular human factors approaches for complex systems evaluation and design applications.

This edited book concerns the real practice of human factors and ergonomics (HF/E), conveying the perspectives and experiences of practitioners and other stakeholders in a variety of industrial sectors, organisational settings and working contexts.

Andy Garlick's book explores the role of quantitative techniques in modern risk management.

Grounded in the user-centered design movement, this book offers a broad consideration of how our civilization has evolved its technical infrastructure for human purpose to help us make sense of our contemporary information infrastructure and online existence.

Cyberattacks on enterprises, government institutions, and individuals are exponentially growing.

Providing detailed analysis of the thermal comfort assessment of clothing as the basis for developing standards, this book discusses the thermal protective role of clothing as a way of modelling heat transfer from the body, general thermal regulation of humans, and the importance of globally accepted test methods and standards to improve quality.

This edited collection offers fresh perspectives on sustainable development and social impact using a circular economy framework.

We create technology enabling us to do things never before possible and it ultimately changes the way we live, work, play, and interact with each other.

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An examination of the safety laws and regulations, particularly in the areas of labor and employment, this book provides a working knowledge of the impacts, requirements, and implications of safety professionals' actions and inactions as related to state and federal laws.

In traditional business circles, wisdom is viewed with a certain scepticism, which is in part due to its historical associations with wisdom traditions and spiritual cultures.

Now in its fourth edition, Occupational Hearing Loss delivers a complete overview of the hazards of occupational noise exposure, causes of hearing loss, testing of hearing, criteria to distinguish occupational hearing loss, and more.

The aim of this book is to provide "e;human engineering"e; for workplaces, tools, machinery, computers, shift work, lighting, sound, climate, work demands, offices, vehicles, healthcare, and the home - and everything else that we can produce - to suit the human body and mind.

The broad and developing scope of human factors and ergonomics - the application of scientific knowledge to improve people,s interaction with products, systems and environments - has been illustrated for 28 years by the books which make up the Contemporary Ergonomics series.

This book investigates human-machine systems through the use of case studies such as crankshaft maintenance, liner piston maintenance, and biodiesel blend performance.

This book provides a thorough exploration of the step- by- step manufacturing processes utilized in the global production of synthetic detergents.

Safety management and human factors disciplines are often regarded as subjective and nebulous.

There is perhaps no facet of modern society where the influence of computer automation has not been felt.

This textbook comprehensively covers the basic principles and most recent advances regarding visual displays, auditory and tactile displays and controls; psychophysics; cognitive processes; human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence and artificial life; stress and human performance; occupational accidents and prevention; human group dynamics and complex systems; and anthropometry, workspace and environmental design.

Engineering systems and products are an important element of the world economy and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, operate, and maintain systems and products around the globe.

This book highlights the problems and hazards of manual materials handling and provides ergonomic and engineering solutions for alleviating them.

This is a thorough description of this increasingly important technology, starting from the development of head-up displays (HUDs), particularly specifications and standards and operational problems associated with HUD use.

This book is intended to help young and novice scientists by providing them with advice on how to overcome adversities.

The TransNav 2011 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2011 has brought together a wide range of participants from all over the world.

Building on the success of previous editions, the 4th edition of 'Introduction to Human Factors and Ergonomics' provides a comprehensive and up to date introduction to the field.

To be successful, we need to understand the basic principles of selling and leadership, and how those aspects apply to safety.

This book discusses the 3D printing of sensors, actuators, and antennas and illustrates how manufacturers can create smart materials that can be effectively used to prepare low-cost products.

Winner of a 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award The third edition of a groundbreaking reference, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications raises the bar for handbooks in this field.

Manipulating the design process can be a stressful learning experience and it can be difficult to decide how to resolve design problems.

Synthesising the latest thinking from neuroscience and psychology with the practice of safety management, Mindful Safety shows how a much stronger safety culture can be built from the ground up.

This book was written with the belief that everyone globally has the right to a safe and healthy workplace.

This book discusses the increase in global competitiveness which challenges the manufacturing market to integrate design and product in order to improve quality and process.

Back injury among healthcare providers is an increasingly visible issue in the occupational health and safety arena.

Safety performance is a complicated issue, particularly in high-hazard environments, where time and other constraints can be amplified, and result in numerous impacts.

In research and application of Human Factors in Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems design, development and operation, there remains a lack of clarity regarding the range and integration of activities associated with the need for greater attention to issues such as human error, interface design and teamwork, especially in systems with increased levels of automation.

This groundbreaking book explores the power of collaborative AI in amplifying human creativity and expertise.

Three-dimensional (3D) printing has evolved as an emerging tool for the design of customized or personalized medication that provides the maximum therapeutic benefits to patients.