Ergonomics

With recent advances in radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, sensor networks, and enhanced Web services, the original World Wide Web is continuing its evolution into what is being called the Web of Things and Services.

Are the tried and true safety practices still effective in the changing workplace?

A big challenge for safety professionals is how to incorporate, build, and sustain a safety program into different business models during times of change.

Training and certification for Seafarers has been founded on technical aspects, but maybe the most important thing to do aboard a ship is dealing with people.

New chapters and updates highlight the second edition of Laser Safety: Tools and Training.

This book pulls together new research and theory on the verbal communication of emotions by an international, cross-disciplinary group of recognized experts in affective communication.

This is the first comprehensive book on pilot judgment.

To live is to communicate, and to communicate with confidence is a craft that one will do well to master early rather than later in life.

How do managers and leaders know what to do when they are caught off guard or taken by surprise?

Simulate realistic human motion in a virtual world with an optimization-based approach to motion prediction.

This book looks at how to design complex products that have many components with intricate relationships and requirements.

Emergency managers and officials have seen a tremendous increase in the planning responsibilities placed on their shoulders over the last decade.

In this educational yet entertaining text, Jeff Koonce draws on his 44 years of pilot experience and 31 years as a professor of psychology and human factors engineering in addressing the questions of how to apply sound human factors principles to the training of pilots and to one's personal flying.

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 Handbook serves as a single source for theories, models, and methods related to cognitive task design.

Digital Transformations for Lighting in the Workplace: A Systematic Approach Used in Ergonomics offers a practical concept for the implementation of digital transformation in ergonomics in work settings.

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 explains the concept of man-machine systems by using the mining industry.

Building on the success of the 2007 original, Dekker revises, enhances and expands his view of just culture for this second edition, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice is created inside organizations.

This book has two functions.

How Does the Body's Motor Control System Deal with Repetition?

This book discusses the realm of operational risk management, exploring the intricacies of managing safety, production and quality simultaneously.

Accidents are preventable, but only if they are correctly described and understood.

In Mining Engineering operations, mines act as sources of constant danger and risk to the miners and may result in disasters unless mining is done with safety legislations and practices in place.

Soldier-robot teams will be an important component of future battle spaces, creating a complex but potentially more survivable and effective combat force.

The science and study of functionally graded materials (FGMs) have intrigued researchers over the last few decades.

Finance students and practitioners may ask: can machines learn everything?

Although radiation accidents are rare and often complex in nature, they are of great concern not only to the patient and involved medical staff, but to the media and public as well.

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 text highlights how nanofluids can be used in thermal solutions across multiple industries, including electronics, energy, and manufacturing.

Work has never been as safe as it seems today.

Safety is more than the absence of accidents.

Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) is a method used by maintenance and reliability industry professionals as one of the key tools to drive improvement.

How do people cope with having "e;caused"e; a terrible accident?

Providing a practical introduction to the basic theories and principals of accident prevention through diagnosis and feedback control, this book presents the various methods and tools of safety, health, and environment (SHE) practice where experience feedback is employed.

With the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the implementation of the nine pillars of technology has taken a firm root, especially after the post-COVID pandemic era.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformative force in smart healthcare.

While the military use of drones has been the subject of much scrutiny, the use of drones for humanitarian purposes has so far received little attention.

This book examines how safety failings during the use of any designed product or system-be it a car, a building, or a chemical plant-can be mitigated through effective understanding of the conditions and controls surrounding its use.

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

There is a resurgence of interest in mental models due to advances in our understanding of how they can be used to help design and due to the development of practical methods to elicit them.

Building on the success of the 2007 original, Dekker revises, enhances and expands his view of just culture for this second edition, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice is created inside organizations.

This book is a key introduction to ethics in engineering, providing professionals at all stages of their career with guidance on navigating the increasingly complex world of practising engineering ethically on an international scale.

Although work furniture has had so much more attention recently there is a long way to go before this is translated into action in the wider world.

Designing a complete visualization system involves many subtle decisions.

Based on the formal concept of "e;knowledge structures"e; originally proposed by Jean-Claude Falmagne and Jean-Paul Doignon, this book contains descriptions of methodological developments and experimental investigations as well as applications for various knowledge domains.

Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments.

Socialize Your Patient Engagement Strategy makes the case for a fundamentally new approach to healthcare communication; one that mobilizes patients, healthcare professionals and uses new media to enable gathering, sharing and communication of information to achieve patient-centricity and provide better value for both organizations (in terms of profit) and patients (in terms of better service and improved health).

Hailed on first publication as a compendium of foundational principles and cutting-edge research, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook has become the gold standard reference in this field.