Ergonomics

Usability Testing of Medical Devices covers the nitty-gritty of usability test planning, conducting, and results reporting.

The development of new technologies of information and communication will, in the coming years, transform deeply their uses and practices in transport.

Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) is introduced to students, academics, researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and others in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Browsing for information is a significant part of most research activity, but many online collections hamper browsing with interfaces that are variants on a search box.

Measuring Safety Management Performance lists and explains the difference between lagging and leading measures of safety management performance.

Intelligent and sustainable manufacturing is a broad category of manufacturing that employs computer-integrated manufacturing, high levels of adaptability and rapid design changes, digital information technology, and more flexible technical workforce training.

This book provides an integrative Business Transformation Management Methodology, the BTMA2, with an emphasis on the balance between the rational aspects of transformation and the often underestimated emotional readiness of employees to absorb and accept transformation initiatives.

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.

This book is about how to be a design academic.

Being a Crisis Chaplain delivers the essential elements of crisis chaplaincy, outlining the process of responding to crises with clarity and compassion.

Australia has an enviable record for airline safety - No one has ever died in an accident involving a commercial jet aircraft in Australia.

Signal detection theory--as developed in electrical engineering and based on statistical decision theory--was first applied to human sensory discrimination 40 years ago.

From Chernobyl to Fukushima, have we come full circle, where formalisation has replaced ambiguity and a decadent style of management, to the point where it is becoming counter-productive?

We cannot manage and control what we cannot measure and assess.

Introduction to Senior Transportation focuses on an issue that is a growing concern-the community mobility needs of older adults.

Occupational Exposures: Chemical Carcinogens and Mutagens offers a focused emphasis on chemical exposures associated with carcinogenic and mutagenic impacts along with associated controls for mitigating and controlling exposures.

This book covers how to analyze awkward working postures, particularly of the spine and lower limbs, in specific groups exposed.

Discussing issues and concepts relating to human factors in simulation, this book covers theory and application in fields such as space, ships, submarines, naval aviation, and commercial aviation.

The TransNav 2013 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2013 has brought together a wide range of participants from all over the world.

Researching Patient Safety and Quality in Health Care: A Nordic Perspective is an anthology based on contributions from leading researchers on quality and safety in healthcare in the Nordic countries together with four internationally renowned patient safety authors.

In all workplaces the health and safety of employees is closely linked with the company's profitability.

Understanding the conditions under which variability in performance may arise, and the processes related to its emergence, gives us insight into the development of techniques for improving the quality of performance.

Human Computer Interface Technologies for the Motor Impaired examines both the technical and social aspects of human computer interface (HCI).

Prosthetic biomechanics is an interdisciplinary field of engineering, medicine, and biology, focused on enhancing people's lifestyles.

In this shortform book, Sun, French, and Unnithan explore state- of- the- art optical recording techniques, with a focus on the revolutionary miniaturized fluorescence microscope - the miniscope - for real- time and in vivo monitoring of multi- neuronal dynamics during cognition- related events.

This book focuses on using plants in spatial design to reduce the infectiousness of viruses in different working and living spaces.

This book deals with the central question of how human factors and ergonomics (HFE) might contribute to solutions for the more sustainable development of our world.

The Cause, Effect, and Control of Accidental Loss takes the reader through 15 phases of a typical workplace accident and shows how accidents can be prevented by the introduction of safety management controls in the form of a structured health and safety management system (SMS).

This work shows readers how to target task analysis TA resources effectively over the life cycle of a project from conceptual design Through To Systems Operation, Noting The Role Of TA In Safety And Quality assurance, minimizing operator error,

This book details how to start and maintain a successful safety program in a municipal or industrial water or wastewater plant with special emphasis on the practical implementation.

The Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science is a landmark work of reference.

In the almost ten years since the publication of the first edition of Motor Fleet Safety and Security Management, the availability of new methods of transportation has made travel faster, and consequently, safety and security have become more important and more complex.

Each year billions of dollars are being spent in the area of nuclear power generation to design, construct, manufacture, operate, and maintain various types of systems around the globe.

The World Wide Web has undergone tremendous growth since the first edition of Web Wisdom: How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web was conceived and written in the mid to late 1990s.

This new volume, edited by industrial and organizational psychologists, will look at the important topic of cyber security work in the US and around the world.

Association of American Publishers (AAP) Finalist for the 2020 PROSE AwardAssociation of American Publishers (AAP) Subject Category Winner for the 2020 PROSE Award2019 Taylor & Francis Award Winner for Outstanding Professional Book!

Completely revised and updated, taking the scientific rigor to a whole new level, the second edition of the Occupational Ergonomics Handbook is now available in two volumes.

This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research that has been conducted within Australia, funded by the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre.

The ergonomics focus is on how to design work tasks, tools, and environments to fit the capabilities and limitations of people.

Automotive Vehicle Safety is a unique academic text, practical design guide and valuable reference book.

Technology is changing the way we do business, the way we communicate with each other, and the way we learn.

Additive manufacturing has matured from rapid prototyping through the now popular and "e;maker"e;-oriented 3D printing, recently commercialized and marketed.

Expanding into emerging markets brings with it a specific set of challenges for designing products and services.

Intelligent tutoring technology is on the verge of a breakthrough into the mainstream of training and education.

Survival for Aircrew is essential reading for any aviation personnel who might at any time fly over water or inhospitable terrain.

This book combines the topics of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Lubrication Degradation Mechanisms (LDM) with the goal of allowing the reader to develop the disciplined thought process for getting to the root causes of each of the degradation mechanisms.

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Machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics are new and fresh technologies that are being increasingly adopted in the field of medicine.

The Handbook of Environmental Health-Biological, Chemical and Physical Agents of Environmentally Related Disease, Volume 1, Fourth Edition includes twelve chapters on a variety of topics basically following a standard chapter outline where applicable with the exception of chapters 1, 2 and 12.

The construction industry in developing economies is responsible for creating deliverables such as infrastructure and housing while providing a means of livelihood to an ever-increasing number of management and frontline workers.