Ergonomics

While a quick response can save you in a time of crisis, avoiding a crisis remains the best defense.

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

An easily accessible guide to scientific information on safety management of chemical substances for students and occupational health professionals, this book covers proper management, related care, and precautions, and related global regulations.

Human-Machine Interface Technology Advancements and Applications focuses on analysis, design, and evaluation perspectives in HMI technological breakthroughs and applications.

A perennial bestseller, this third edition includes individual entries for over 300 compounds.

The application of futures thinking in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has become increasingly important in recent years.

How-To Guide Written By Practicing ProfessionalsPhysical Security and Safety: A Field Guide for the Practitioner introduces the basic principles of safety in the workplace, and effectively addresses the needs of the responsible security practitioner.

This volume discusses pleasurable design- a part of the traditional usability design and evaluation methodologies.

This book describes patterns of language and culture in human-computer interaction (HCI).

Uniquely, this book gives consumers a voice and regales tales of their experiences.

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

Uniquely, this book gives consumers a voice and regales tales of their experiences.

Situation Assessment in Aviation focuses on new aspects of soft computing technologies for the evaluation and assessment of situations in aviation scenarios.

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

Providing up-to-date, practical advice on how to design, select, and structure telemedicine interventions with older adults, this book discusses the age-related changes that can affect the efficacy of these systems.

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.

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.

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.

Despite preemptive preparations, disasters can and do occur.

Situation Assessment in Aviation focuses on new aspects of soft computing technologies for the evaluation and assessment of situations in aviation scenarios.

A complete examination of issues and concepts relating to human factors in simulation, this book covers theory and application in space, ships, submarines, naval aviation, and commercial aviation.

Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design Work examines how developers actually perform software design in their day-to-day work.

Security is a paradox.

In the last 20 years, technological developments have set new standards in driver-vehicle interaction.

While worker safety is often touted as a company,s first priority, more often than not, safety activity is driven by compliance to legislation rather than any safety improvement initiative.

How far would or should you go to feel secure?

Now more than ever, the design of systems and devices for effective and safe healthcare delivery has taken center stage.

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

A Complete Toolbox of Theories and TechniquesThe second edition of a bestseller, Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications presents systematic and extensive coverage of the primary areas of research and development within VE technology.

Current and emerging trends in the domains of health management and the work sector, the abundance of new consumer products pervading the marketplace, and the desires of many older adults to undertake new learning experiences means that older adults, like their younger counterparts, will need to continually engage in new learning and training.

Organizational Crisis Management: The Human Factor offers theoretical background and practical strategies for responding to workplace crises.

Human factors and ergonomics have made considerable contributions to the research, design, development, operation and analysis of transportation systems and their complementary infrastructure.

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

Detailing methods for preparing organizations for disasters, this book discusses not only tried and true tactics, but also areas often overlooked during the reactive and post-disaster phases.

Given the strong current attention of orthopaedic, biomechanical, and biomedical engineering research on translational capabilities for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of clinical disease states, the need for reviews of the state-of-art and current needs in orthopaedics is very timely.

IoT Fundamentals with a Practical Approach is an insightful book that serves as a comprehensive guide to understanding the foundations and key concepts of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.

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

Written by a leader in the field, this book discusses the role of vision in reading.

This straightforward, easy-to-understand textbook inspires tools for improving job performance, productivity, and morale in law enforcement.

Safety Rebels: Real-World Transformations in Health and Safety discusses the pragmatic experiences of over 30 safety professionals worldwide who managed to positively transform safety within their organizations.

This book examines sustainable manufacturing, from the extraction of materials to processing, use, and disposal, and argues that significant changes in all of the above are needed for the world to progress toward a more circular economy.

This book examines sustainable manufacturing, from the extraction of materials to processing, use, and disposal, and argues that significant changes in all of the above are needed for the world to progress toward a more circular economy.

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

In today's dynamic workplace environment, ensuring the safety and well-being of employees has never been more critical.

This book is a practical guide for individuals interested in exploring and implementing smart home applications using Python.

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 text emphasizes the need for data pre-processing, classification and prediction, cluster analysis, mining multimedia, and advanced machine learning techniques for scientific programming in Industry 5.

This book presents wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), its variants, processing steps, and the mechanical and microstructural aspects of developed components, along with a logical sequence that provides a ready reference.