Ergonomics

The consequences of ineffective coping are evident in the health of individuals and organisations.

Through continued collaboration and the sharing of ideas, data, and results, the international community of researchers and practitioners has developed an understanding of many facets of the human response to vibration.

Vast global resources are ploughed into the delivery of treatment interventions ranging from diet and lifestyle advice to complex surgery.

During the last 60 years the discipline of human factors (HF) has evolved alongside progress in engineering, technology, and business.

The three primary papers in this special issue explore personality measurement in both directions, that is, more narrow and specific and more broad and heterogeneous.

Computer systems have become an important element of the world economy, with billions of dollars spent each year on development, manufacture, operation, and maintenance.

The chapters in the book come from an international group of authors with diverse backgrounds including ergonomics, psychology, architecture, computer science, engineering, and sociology.

Focused on the United States, this book summarizes the secondary impacts of COVID-19 due to the increased use of technology.

There is a growing recognition amongst those involved with the creation and distribution of nuclear power of the value and positive impact of ergonomics, recognition heightened by the realization that safety incidents are rarely the result of purely technical failure.

A Practical Guide to the Safety Profession: The Relentless Pursuit will help reshape the way we talk about safety, prompt action, and engage workers from all levels of an organization.

What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner's tailplane?

Designing new products and improving existing ones is a continual process.

Culture forms a complex framework of national, organizational and professional attitudes and values within which groups and individuals function.

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

There has been a 2,500-year evolution in structured means of control and management systems.

The reason that good interfaces are few and far between is really quite simple: they are extremely difficult to design and build properly.

Rapid advancements in train control and in-cab technologies provide significant opportunities for rail operators to improve efficiency and enhance their operations.

The book provides knowledge in the Building Information Model (BIM)-enabled cognitive computing methods for smart built environment involving cognitive network capabilities for smart buildings, integrating Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality in cognitive building concepts, cognitive Internet of Things (CIoT) for smart cities, Artificial Intelligence applications for cognitive cities, and cognitive smart cities using big data and machine learning.

The pace of life in our high technology world has quickened.

Every day we hear stories about the consequences of human frailties for individuals, their families and friends, and their organizations.

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Covering field history and discussing actual modern-day pilot actions and tasks, the editors of this volume have integrated contributions from leaders in aviation to present psychological principles and research pertinent to the interface between a pilot and the cockpit.

Why do we choose specific modes of transport and what are the perceived rationalities for our choice?

This revised edition provides the basics of applying hazard and operability study (Hazop) and hazard analysis (Hazan).

Jointly hosted by the Ergonomics Society of South Africa (ESSA) and the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), this conference was attended by over 300 delegates and represented the largest and most prestigious gathering of eminent international ergonomists in the history of Africa.

Human Factors in System Design, Development, and Testing describes engineering system design as a behavioral process, a process which raises questions the designer must answer.

This well-grounded and practical guide highlights the underlying causes of crowd disasters and mass fatalities-giving readers insight into the root causes of crowd-related accidents.

Driving automation and autonomy are already upon us and the problems that were predicted twenty years ago are beginning to appear.

The current business environment requires that individuals, teams, and organizations are equipped to cope with an unpredictable marketplace and increasing competition.

The three primary papers in this special issue explore personality measurement in both directions, that is, more narrow and specific and more broad and heterogeneous.

The third edition of a bestseller, Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders continues to provide the fundamentals of "e;street chemistry"e; required by emergency response personnel.

Today, more and more Web sites are providing content in multiple languages for targeted countries, and more and more products are being designed for cultural differences in mind.

A Druid looks at quality control for product and service industries, amplifying from his earlier book Right first time .

The text comprehensively discusses the latest mathematical modelling techniques and their applications in various areas such as fuzzy modelling, signal processing, neural network, machine learning, image processing, and their numerical analysis.

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

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Health care is under tremendous pressure regarding efficiency, safety, and economic viability.

This new edition comes after about 15 years of development in the field of safety science and practice.

Resilience engineering has since 2004 attracted widespread interest from industry as well as academia.

Advances in computer, visual display, motion and force cueing and other technologies in the past two decades have had a dramatic effect on the design and use of simulation technology in aviation and other fields.

This new volume is the first to focus entirely on automated essay scoring and evaluation.

This updated edition includes fatigue and sleep definitions as well as strategies for the measurement and assessment of fatigue.

Foreign Object Debris and Damage in Aviation discusses both biological and non-biological Foreign Object Debris (FOD) and associated Foreign Object Damage (FOD) in aviation.

Data will not help you if you can't see it where you need it.

Surveys conducted within organizations have become an important aspect of human resource management and organizational functioning.

Instructional design theory and practice has evolved over the past 30 years from an initial narrow focus on programmed instruction to a multidimensional field of study integrating psychology, technology, evaluation, measurement, and management.

This two-volume set was developed to help researchers and practitioners select measures to be used in the evaluation of human/machine systems.

Human Factors in Simulation and Training: Application and Practice covers the latest applications and practical implementations of advanced technologies in the field of simulation and training.

Despite the fact that workplaces have implemented and followed new safety innovations and approaches, the majority of them have seen little, if any, significant progress in the reduction of accidental deaths and injuries.

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