Industrial Health category: 2135 books

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for those dealing with toxic, infectious, and radioactive materials. An easily accessible guide for professionals and researchers in all PPE fields, this book takes a fresh look at how PPE is designed, selected, and used in today's emergency response...

This book provides an overview of, and practical guidance on, the range of human factors (HF) methods that can be used for the purposes of accident analysis and investigation in complex sociotechnical systems. Human Factors Methods and Accident Analysis begins with an overview of different accident...

La sicurezza sul lavoro spiegata a lavoratori e datori di lavoro.

In Paul Hebert’s inspirational memoir, The Sun Above the Clouds, travel back to a day when men cleared wooded homesteads by hand and horse but raised their families with violence. Watch Paul escape his upbringing to find joy and purpose in being a lineman, skiing, travel, nature, and love, after...

This tech manual guides you on the uses and safe handling of auto mechanic, workshop, welding, auto Body, and electrical tools.

Ethics is the practical application of wisdom in professional practice, and this book shows how. The engineering profession requires its members to behave ethically. However the resulting rules and codes of conduct can be abstract and difficult for engineers to understand and apply to their personal...

Technology is all around us in almost everything that we own and use on a daily basis.  We have technology in our homes, schools, work and even our modes of transportation.  We use technology to communicate with one another and conduct business on a day to day fashion. Now when we talk about...

This pocketsize book may help you figure out how to be a qualified safety practitioner regardless of your nationality, faith, and current educational achievements. My objective is to share my journey as safety practitioner. I hope you will find beneficial information based on my twelve-year personal experience in construction industry as safety professional.

This book focuses on contemporary human factors issues within the design of soldier systems and describes how they are currently being investigated and addressed by the U.S. Army to enhance soldier performance and effectiveness. Designing Soldier Systems approaches human factors issues from three...

Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an ’organizational accident’. These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological systems operating in hazardous circumstances. They stand in sharp contrast to ’individual accidents’ whose damaging...

Additive manufacturing has matured from rapid prototyping through the now popular and "maker"-oriented 3D printing, recently commercialized and marketed. The terms describing this technology have changed over time, from "rapid prototyping" to "rapid manufacturing" to...

There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing...

There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing...

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