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Human Factors Methods
A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This second edition of Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design now presents 107 design and evaluation methods as well as numerous refinements to those that featured in the original. The book has been carefully designed to act as an ergonomics methods manual, aiding both...
by Trevor Kletz
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
Review of previous edition:
"Trevor Kletz's book makes an invaluable contribution to the systematic, professional and scientific approach to accident investigation". The Chemical Engineer
Fully revised and updated, the third edition of Learning from Accidents provides more information...
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...
by Terry Wireman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Updated to account for ISO 55000, Benchmarking Best Practices for Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management, Third Edition, now includes an overview of this seminal and long-awaited standard and identifies the specific points where ISO 55000 will impact maintenance and reliability. New graphics...
What Risk?
Paperback edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Whether the public or the environment is at risk is a commonly discussed question in numerous areas of public life, most recently and publicly with regard to issues like BSE, passive smoking and the dangers from pesticides in food production. It is therefore of great importance for everyone concerned...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Despite the significance and prevalence of errors in organizations, there has been no attempt within the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology to create a single source summarizing what we know regarding errors in organizations and providing a focused effort toward identifying future directions...
by Morley D. Glicken, Ben Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In the current economy, companies are expected to turn on a dime in response to changing market needs to stay vibrant. What that means is that companies are constantly reorganizing. Employees are living in a constant state of change. This dynamic in the workplace has affected worker satisfaction,...
Radium Girls
Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning. Claudia Clark's book tells the compelling story of these women, who at first had no idea that the tedious task of...
by Gerald Matthews, P.A. Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Fatigue is a recognized problem in many facets of the human enterprise. It is not confined to any one area of activity but enters all situations in which humans have to perform for extended intervals of time. Most problematic are the circumstances in which obligatory action is continuous and the results...
Building Materials
Product Emission and Combustion Health Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The construction industry is bombarded with ever-changing building materials—components of which are more and more difficult, if not impossible, to identify. Building material emissions have been implicated as a major source of indoor air pollution, and toxic gases, often unidentified, are generated...
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...