Industrial Health category: 2135 books
by P.A. Scott, J. Charteris, R.S. Bridger
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
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. It also marked...
Workforce Readiness
Competencies and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Current economic difficulties and the challenge of competing in the world market have necessitated a rethinking of American approaches to the utilization of people in organizations. Management now recognizes a need to have workers take on more responsibility at the points of production, of sale, and...
Mass Customized Manufacturing
Theoretical Concepts and Practical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book brings several original contributions to research and practical applications in the field of mass customization from the designer, manufacturer, and customer perspectives respectively. It presents advancements in product design for mass customization, design of assembly and supply chain...
Company Success in Manufacturing Organizations
A Holistic Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
In the past, company success was typically measured by financial indicators. Lately though, non-financial measures such as employee morale have become popular. Although there are approaches that look into quantitative and qualitative performance measures affecting company success, none of them characterize...
Intuitive Interaction
Research and Application
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
This book explores recent research in intuitive interaction worldwide by a range of leading academics and practitioners in the field. It builds on past work as it ventures into new areas, such as how users perceive intuitiveness of an interface, how people experience intuitive interaction subjectively,...
Semiconductor Safety Handbook
Safety and Health in the Semiconductor Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1998
Interwoven within our semiconductor technology development had been the development of technologies aimed at identifying, evaluating and mitigating the environmental, health and safety (EH&S) risks and exposures associated with the manufacturing and packaging of integrated circuits. Driving and advancing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Electromyography (EMG) is the study of muscle behaviour via electronic means, and is thus a technique fundamental to ergonomics, physiology and biomechanics. This text describes the principles of EMG and its application domains, focusing on anatomy, biology, muscle characteristics, physics, mechanics,...
by Krister Forsberg, Ann Van den Borre, Norman Henry III
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Quick Selection Guide to Chemical Protective Clothing provides the reader with the latest information on Selection, Care and Use of Chemical Protective garments and gloves. Topics in the widely-used reference guide include Selection and Use of Chemical Protective Clothing, Chemical Index, Selection...
by John F. Rekus
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book provides plant managers, supervisors, safety professionals, and industrial hygienists with recommended procedures and guidance for safe entry into confined spaces. It reviews selected case histories of confined space accidents, including multiple fatalities, and discusses how a confined...
Responsible Care
A New Strategy for Pollution Prevention and Waste Reduction Through Environment Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Environmental regulations provide protection to the public, workers and the environment. To protect themselves
from long-term liabilities, however, companies have to do more than just comply with the basic responsibilities.
This handbook is designed to introduce terminology, methodology, tools, procedures...
Distributed Situation Awareness in Road Transport
Theory, Measurement, and Application to Intersection Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
How can we design transport environments that cater to the situation awareness needs of different end-users? This book answers this question by showcasing how state-of-the-art human factors theory and methods can be used to understand how situation awareness differs across drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists,...
by Victor Giurgiutiu
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors, Second Edition provides an authoritative theoretical and experimental guide to this fast-paced, interdisciplinary area with exciting applications across a range of industries.
The book begins with a detailed yet digestible...
Handbook of Respiratory Protection
Safeguarding Against Current and Emerging Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Respiratory protection includes devices and management techniques for keeping people safe from hazardous materials. This handbook presents the state-of-the-art in respiratory protection technology as well as best management practices for work centers. Included are topics relevant to industry, government,...
by Norbert Steigenberger, Heather Fiala, Thomas Lübcke
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Despite intense research on decision-making in action, we still know little about when decision-makers rely on deliberate vs. intuitive decision-making in decision situations under complexity and uncertainty. Building on default-interventionist dual-processing theory, this book studies decision-making...