Industrial Health category: 2135 books
Macrocognition in Teams
Theories and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Team collaboration involves many operational tasks such as team decision-making or course of action selection, developing shared understanding, and intelligence analysis. These operational tasks must be performed in many situations, often under severe time pressure, with information and knowledge...
by HSE Health and Safety Executive
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000 (PSSR) cover the safe design and use of pressure systems. The aim of PSSR is to prevent serious injury from the hazard of stored energy (pressure) as a result of the failure of a pressure system or one of its component parts.
The revised PSSR ACOP...
Digitising Command and Control
A Human Factors and Ergonomics Analysis of Mission Planning and Battlespace Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM) system. An emphasis was placed on the activities at the Brigade (Bde) and the Battle Group (BG) headquarters (HQ) levels. The analysts distributed their time evenly between...
by Monica Martinussen, David R. Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book covers the application of psychological principles and techniques to situations and problems of aviation. It offers an overview of the role psychology plays in aviation, system design, selection and training of pilots, characteristics of pilots, safety, and passenger behavior. It covers...
Naked Safety
Exploring The Dynamics of Safety in a Fast-Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Workplace safety has never been seen as sexy, clever or cool.
Fraught with legislative hurdles, ambiguous policy and complex procedures, despite its alleged importance safety has lost its way. For many organisations safety is seen as burdensome and bureaucratic and has become little more than...
Indoor Air Quality
The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Indoor Air Quality: The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Third Edition is a practical, user-friendly guide to the identification and assessment of the indoor air contaminants that contribute to building-related illness in commercial buildings, institutions, and residences. It covers the basic...
Improving Healthcare Team Communication
Building on Lessons from Aviation and Aerospace
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Communications research in aviation is widely regarded by many in the healthcare community as the 'gold standard' to emulate. Yet healthcare and aviation differ in many ways, as do the vital communications shared among members of clinical teams. Aviation team communication should, then, be understood...
Fukushima Accident
Radioactivity Impact on the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Fukushima Accident presents up-to-date information on radioactivity released to the atmosphere and the ocean after the accident on the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, on the distribution of radionuclides in the world atmosphere and oceans, and their impact on the total environment (man, fauna,...
by Michael J. Ellenbecker, Candace Su-Jung Tsai
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Addresses health and safety issues associated with workplace Nanoparticle exposures
• Describes methods to evaluate and control worker exposures to engineered nanoparticles
• Provides guidance for concerned EHS professionals on acceptable levels of exposure to nanoparticles
• Includes documentation...
by Capt. David Moriarty
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Practical Human Factors for Pilots bridges the divide between human factors research and one of the key industries that this research is meant to benefit—civil aviation. Human factors are now recognized as being at the core of aviation safety and the training syllabus that flight crew trainees have...
by Mark Sullman
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Traffic psychology is a rapidly expanding and broad field within applied psychology with a considerable volume of research activities and a growing network of academic strands of enquiry. The discipline primarily focuses on the behaviour of road users and the psychological processes underlying these...
by Thomas D. Schneid, Shelby L. Schneid
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The goal of this book is to prepare safety and health professionals to recognize and address human resource issues, applicable laws and regulations, as well as change management techniques used to alter the safety culture within their operations. This book will provide awareness to avoid or address...
by Michael L. Muilenberg, Harriet A. Burge
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Aerobiology is the study of airborne particles that have an impact on humans and other organisms. Every day, we are exposed to airborne particles, including "natural" particles such as pollen, bacteria, and fungi, and "unnatural" particles, such as asbestos fibers and noxious chemicals....
Perfluoroalkyl Substances in the Environment
Theory, Practice, and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), often referred to as per- (and poly) fluorinated compounds (PFCs), have been used for years in many everyday¾ and some lifesaving¾ products. However, their use has been linked to adverse health effects in humans, a problem compounded by their persistence...