Industrial Health category: 2135 books

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Driver Distraction

A Sociotechnical Systems Approach

by Katie J. Parnell, Neville A. Stanton, Katherine L. Plant
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018

Driver Distraction: A Sociotechnical Systems Approach promotes a sociotechnical systems approach to driver distraction. This perspective focuses on analysis of the whole system, its values, and the interactions between human and technical elements at all organisational levels. The book covers the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 1996

There is a growing recognition amongst those involved with the creation and distribution of nuclear power of the value and positive impact of ergonomics, recognition heightened by the realization that safety incidents are rarely the result of purely technical failure.  This work provides insights into plant design, performance shaping factors,
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Cognitive Work Analysis

Applications, Extensions and Future Directions

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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017

Over the past decade, Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) has been one of the popular human factors approaches for complex systems evaluation and design applications. This is reflected by a diverse range of applications across safety critical domains. The book brings together a series of CWA applications...
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by Guy H. Walker, Neville A. Stanton, Paul M. Salmon
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

A potentially troubling aspect of modern vehicle design – some would argue - is a trend for isolating the driver and reducing vehicle feedback, usually in the name of comfort and refinement but increasingly because of automation. There is little doubt cars have become more civilised over the years,...
Cover of Individual Latent Error Detection (I-LED)
by Justin R.E. Saward, Neville A. Stanton
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018

Undetected human error in aircraft maintenance creates a latent error condition that can contribute to undesirable outcomes. Individual Latent Error Detection (I-LED) acts as an additional system safety control that helps an engineer recall past errors through environmental cues. This book addresses...
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Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control

by Frank Lees
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012

Safety in the process industries is critical for those who work with chemicals and hazardous substances or processes. The field of loss prevention is, and continues to be, of supreme importance to countless companies, municipalities and governments around the world, and Lees’ is a detailed reference...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017

Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, Eighth Edition presents the latest updates on the unexpected, but predictable, loss of containment and explosion hazards from chemicals and their admixtures and actual accidents. The extensively cross-referenced book enables readers to avoid explosion...
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by Stanley A. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012

This book is a direct companion to Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens in that the hazardous chemicals listed in Sittig's Handbook are the source for this guide. With more than 7,500 entries highlighting chemical producers worldwide, this international directory is a...
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by Trevor Kletz
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018

This title looks at how people, as opposed to technology and computers, are arguably the most unreliable factor within plants, leading to dangerous situations.
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Grasping the Moment

Sensemaking in Response to Routine Incidents and Major Emergencies

by Christopher Baber, Richard McMaster
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016

The ways in which organizations make use of information available to them to make decisions and manage activity is an essential topic of investigation for human factors. When the information is uncertain, incomplete or subject to change, then decision making and activity management can become challenging....
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Disaster Resilient Cities

Concepts and Practical Examples

by Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Shinji Sato
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016

Disaster Resilient Cities: Concepts and Practical Examples discusses natural disasters, their complexity, and the exploration of different ways of thinking regarding the resilience of structures. The book provides a blueprint for structural designers to better prepare structures for all types of natural...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2008

The repair of deteriorated, damaged and substandard civil infrastructures has become one of the most important issues for the civil engineer worldwide. This important book discusses the use of externally-bonded fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites to strengthen, rehabilitate and retrofit civil...
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Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Principles

for Oil, Gas, Chemical and Related Facilities

by Dennis P. Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010

Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Principles: for Oil, Gas, Chemical and Related Facilities is a general engineering handbook that provides an overview for understanding problems of fire and explosion at oil, gas, and chemical facilities. This handbook offers information about...
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Safety Management

A Qualitative Systems Approach

by John Davies, Alastair Ross, Brendan Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017

Professionals striving for accident reduction must deal with systems in which both technical and human elements play equal and complementary roles. However, many of the existing techniques in ergonomics and risk management concentrate on plant and technical issues and downplay human factors and "subjectivity."...
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