Industrial Health category: 2135 books
by George Galanis, Robert Sottilare
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Defense forces have always invested a great deal of their resources in training. In recent times, changes in the complexity and intensity of operations have reaffirmed the importance of ensuring that warfighters are adequately prepared for the environments in which they are required to work. The emergence...
Ghosts in the Machine
Rethinking Learning Work and Culture in Air Traffic Control
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book provides a socio-cultural analysis of the ways in which air traffic controllers formally and informally learn about their work and the active role that organisational cultures play in shaping interpretation and meaning. In particular, it describes the significant role that organizational...
Mental Models
Design of User Interaction and Interfaces for Domestic Energy Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
There is a resurgence of interest in mental models due to advances in our understanding of how they can be used to help design and due to the development of practical methods to elicit them. This book brings both areas together with a focus on reducing domestic energy consumption. The book focuses...
Dynamic Risk Assessment
The Practical Guide to Making Risk-Based Decisions with the 3-Level Risk Management Model
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Dynamic Risk Assessment is the key tool to support a holistic risk management framework. This book aims to help employers, managers and staff alike to understand how they can effectively integrate dynamic risk assessment into business management processes and systems to improve safety.
With...
Safe Zone
Technological Aspects of Safety in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
This book presents a comprehensive view of the safety in the workplace and the safety leadership factors and provides detail analysis of the OSHA regulations, safety training and technological aspects of safety in the workplace.
Multimodal Safety Management and Human Factors
Crossing the Borders of Medical, Aviation, Road and Rail Industries
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Safety management and human factors disciplines are often regarded as subjective and nebulous. This perhaps stems from a variety of, sometimes disparate, activities in the realms of education, industry and research. Aviation is one of the safety-critical industries that has led the development of...
Developing an Effective Safety Culture
A Leadership Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2002
Developing an Effective Safety Culture implements a simple philosophy, namely that working safely is a cultural issue. An effective safety culture will eventually lead to the desired goal of zero incidents in the work place, and this book will provide an understanding of what is needed to reach this...
Bomb Safety and Security
The Manager's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book enables managers to develop and implement appropriate bomb safety and security measures to safeguard life, property and reputation while minimising unnecessary disruption, maintaining operations and protecting profitability. The book provides guidance on how to prepare for and respond...
Adaptive User Support
Ergonomic Design of Manually and Automatically Adaptable Software
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The potential of software applications to solve an array of office and administrative problems is increasing faster than the ability of users to exploit it. We need to make systems easier to learn and more comfortable to use. This book reports a major advance in the effort to accomplish both goals.
Flexcel...
Cognitive Systems Engineering
An Integrative Living Laboratory Framework
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book provides a framework for integrating complex systems that are problem-centric, human-centered, and provides an interdisciplinary, multi-methodological purview of multiple perspectives surrounding the human factors/human actors within living ecosystems. This book will provide useful theoretical...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This report identifies factors which contribute to collisions that can be addressed by intelligent transport systems technologies in the People’s Republic of China. It examines opportunities for establishing a policy framework for the development and implementation of mobile-communication-based...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Operating at a high level of fuel efficiency, safety, proliferation-resistance, sustainability and cost, generation IV nuclear reactors promise enhanced features to an energy resource which is already seen as an outstanding source of reliable base load power. The performance and reliability of materials...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Nanotechnology is a new and emerging discipline that is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. The usage of nanosystems, nanomaterials, nano-devices, etc. permeates all aspects of society. Cancer targeting and curing nanosystems are being introduced into the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries;...
by Alireza Bahadori
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Oil and gas companies are repeatedly cited by regulatory organizations for poor training and maintenance on providing personal protective equipment to their refinery workers. Managers of refinery and petrochemical plants are responsible for instructing their workers with the types of equipment available,...