Ergonomics

Team collaboration involves many operational tasks such as team decision-making or course of action selection, developing shared understanding, and intelligence analysis.

This book seeks to establish an interdisciplinary, applied social scientific model for researchers and students that advocates a cooperative effort between machines and people.

Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technology: Principles and Applications consists of the construction and working details of all modern additive manufacturing and 3D-printing technology processes and machines, while also including the fundamentals, for a well-rounded educational experience.

This book, on the ergonomics of human machine systems, is aimed at engineers specializing in informatics, automation, production or robotics, who are faced with a significant dilemma during the conception of human machine systems.

Prevention of Accidents at Work collects papers presented at the 9th International Conference on the Prevention of Accidents at Work (WOS 2017) held in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 3-6, 2017, organized by the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava.

Viewing an electronic display screen varies significantly from reading text on paper and human eyes often suffer for it.

Moving from theory to practical reality, this book tackles both simple and complex issues, demonstrating how to create offices that accommodate all workers.

The book takes as its starting point the crisis of healthcare in the UK: impossible health targets managed through command and control management and a stomach-churning rise in racism, whistleblowing and victimisation in the NHS.

This book focuses on and promotes the applications of the diverse tools and techniques of industrial engineering to the design and operation of systems in industry, business, the government, and the military.

This research shows the dynamic relationship between work, health and satisfaction.

As healthcare challenges such as human aging and traffic accidents continue to increase exponentially, the biomedical sector faces a significant obstacle in arranging patient-specific biomedical products.

Hearing is a prerequisite for the evolution of language and thus the development of human societies.

Industrially developing countries have the largest populations, the highest levels of poverty, poor health, and illiteracy, and the greatest need for improvement in working conditions.

Meeting the needs of the manufacturing and service sectors of contemporary industry, this volume is concerned with the human factors, ergonomics, and safety issues related to the design of products, processes, and systems, as well as the operation and management of business enterprises.

Herbert William Heinrich has been one of the most influential safety pioneers.

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 is a complete and concise guide to creating and managing a successful environmental audit program.

Master Airline Pilot offers a process for improving pilots' skills in risk management, situational awareness building, decision making, communications, and crew management.

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

Designed to help the instructor to present concepts in human factors, this guide is presented in lecture-note format with each unit outlining performance objectives, questions and answers, references to pages in the main text and large-print summaries for overhead projection.

When accidents occur in the oil and gas industry, the impacts can be profound.

The book explodes the myths that currently drive society's view of traffic safety and limit progress in reducing death and serious injury.

This book presents a co-design detailed methodology that will enable the reader to develop human-centered product designs, considering the user's needs, skills, and limitations.

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.

Agile is a mindset and a culture that has evolved beyond software development to encompass all forms of project management, business organizations, defense, and society.

Engineering systems are an important element of world economy.

Influencing the Quality, Risk and Safety Movement in Healthcare explores the inner workings of some of the most influential minds in healthcare quality, risk and safety.

The rail human factors/ergonomics community has grown quickly and extensively, and there is much increased recognition of the vital importance of ergonomics/human factors by rail infrastructure owners, rail operating companies, system developers, regulators and national and trans-national government.

Diagnostic Expertise in Organizational Environments provides a state-of-the-art foundation for a new paradigm in expertise research and practice.

This book provides plant managers, supervisors, safety professionals, and industrial hygienists with recommended procedures and guidance for safe entry into confined spaces.

Computer systems based on the notion of the computer as assistant have recently become the focus of intense interest.

This book covers user experience methods and tools in designing user friendly products and servicesby encompassing widely utilized successful methods, including elicitation, analysis and establishment of requirements, collaborative idea generation with design teams and intended users, prototype testing and evaluation of the user experience through empirical and non empirical means.

Every day we interact with thousands of consumer products.

Bullying is an increasing problem in the workplace.

Occupational Risk Control contains a practical theory of risk based on the principles of the physical sciences.

In the era of big data and real-time monitoring, vast amounts of information are generated every second through sensors and advanced tracking systems.

The construction industry is vital to any national economy; it is also one of the industries most susceptible to workplace incidents.

With contributions from a collection of authors consisting of many recognizable experts in the field of virtual and adaptive environments, as well as many up and coming young researchers, this book illustrates the many ways in which psychological science contributes to and benefits from the increased development and application of these nascent systems.

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.

The work is a context-oriented analysis and synthesis of complex engineered systems to ensure continuous and safe operations under conditions of uncertainty.

AI for Product Development explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence in reshaping modern industries.

Airline pilots often have to face sudden, unexpected situations that can become potentially dangerous.

Professionals and students in the field of industrial hygiene need a concise guide that thoroughly covers the practical methods of evaluating health threats in the workplace.

History and Development of Airline Cabin Safety offers an understanding of how cabin safety evolved over time.

Ergonomics is a human-centered discipline.

This book presents the case for Project-Based Learning within Socio-Technical Systems in Engineering Education.

In the resilience engineering approach to safety, failures and successes are seen as two different outcomes of the same underlying process, namely how people and organizations cope with complex, underspecified and therefore partly unpredictable work environments.

This book presents a complete overview of the main EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) paradigms and the related practical solutions for their design, prototyping, and testing.

This book statistically confirms that complexity and changing technologies that affect the way operators interact within the systems of the nuclear facili-ties exacerbate the severity of incidents caused by human error and details the application of the systems engineering process to reduce human error given industries' rapidly advancing technology.