Ergonomics

This interesting book offers an analysis of man-made catastrophes and asks why they continue to occur.

In the European Union many individuals will partake in drinking a little wine with their lunch or dinner to aid their enjoyment of the meal or as an appetizer for food.

An integral part of any engineering or manufacturing process is a continuous process of assessing its safety and reliability.

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

Many inquiry reports blame management for their failures of foresight.

Risk is an enduring theme of modern life.

This book focuses on augmented reality (AR) technology, which uses the real environment to superimpose virtual elements.

With the increase of globalization of business and industry, IT products and services are produced and marketed across geographical cultural boundaries without any consideration of culture.

This book introduces a new Human Factors concept that includes the air passenger as an integral part of the aviation system.

Whatever the future holds, one thing is sure: nothing is certain except uncertainty.

This book addresses smoke management in enclosures and provides a platform for understanding the principles of smoke propagation and spread, heat release rate, and the effect of sprinklers on suppression.

The drone industry is one of the most exciting and dynamic sectors in the modern world, growing and developing at an exponential pace.

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.

Safety Management Systems in Aviation presents the quality management underpinnings of SMS.

Written by experts from various fields, this edited collection explores a wide range of issues pertaining to how computers evoke human social expectations.

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.

Principles of Emergency Management: Hazard Specific Issues and Mitigation offers preparedness and mitigation recommendations for advanced emergency planning.

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 addresses the problem of waste management by using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods.

Cognition, Education, and Communication Technology presents some of the recent theoretical developments in the cognitive and educational sciences and implications for the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the organization of school and university education.

The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of people can enjoy.

Much of the previous literature in the field of safety focuses on either the technical equipment issues or the human performance factors that contribute to the active failures in safety-critical systems.

Handbook of Post-Processing in Additive Manufacturing is a key resource on postprocessing treatments available for additive manufactured products.

This book introduces the systematic design process for product and engineering design projects by adopting a design model and the use of several design methods.

This book is devoted to the examination of emerging practical issues related to automated and autonomous systems.

This practical guide for managers and engineers in the plastics industry shows how to reduce high noise levels which often occur in the workplace and reduce the risk of noise-induced hearing damage to employees.

There are numerous psychological studies of pilots and piloting, but little has been done in the way of sociological examination.

This edited book presents an array of approaches on how human factors theory and research addresses the challenges associated with combat identification.

Workplace bullying is an area that has attracted significant press attention throughout the last decade.

Application of additive manufacturing and tissue engineering in the fields of science and technology enables the manufacturing of biocompatible, customized, reliable, and cost-effective parts, restoring the functionality of a failed human body part.

Ad hoc and interdisciplinary, the field of interaction design claims no unified theory.

This book is the third in the series and describes some of the most recent advances and examines emerging problems in engineering psychology and cognitive ergonomics.

Speed in acquiring the knowledge and skills to perform tasks is crucial.

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

Recipient of the SJSU San Jose State University Annual Author & Artist Awards 2019Recipient of the SJSU San Jose State University Annual Author & Artist Awards 2018Cybersecurity, or information technology security, focuses on protecting computers and data from criminal behavior.

Communications research in aviation is widely regarded by many in the healthcare community as the 'gold standard' to emulate.

The idea of creating artificial humans can be found at the beginning of the human culture.

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

This book focuses exclusively on ergonomics in the design and use of hand tools.

The objective of Contemporary Research: Models, Methodologies, and Measures in Distributed Team Cognition is to advance knowledge in terms of real-world interactions among information, people, and technologies through explorations and discovery embedded within the research topics covered.

Aviation remains one of the most active and challenging domains for human factors and applied psychology.

The third edition of a bestseller, Human Safety and Risk Management: A Psychological Perspective incorporates a decade of new research and development to provide you with a comprehensive and contemporary guide to the psychology of risk and workplace safety.

Human factors play a critical role in the design and interpretation of remotely sensed imagery for all Earth sciences.

The Fire Safety and Risk Management Revision Guide: for the NEBOSH Fire Certificate is the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management.

Safety in process industries is of utmost necessity to ensure protection from hazards.

Principles of Emergency Management: Hazard Specific Issues and Mitigation offers preparedness and mitigation recommendations for advanced emergency planning.

Even to the casual observer of the automotive industry, it is clear that driving in the 21st century will be radically different from driving as we know it today.

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.

Equipping readers with the ability to analyze the aerodynamic forces on an aircraft, the book provides comprehensive knowledge of the characteristics of subsonic and supersonic airflow.

This book provides a key understanding of CATIA which is a solid modeling software.