Industrial Health Safety category: 514 books
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...
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 Adrian Belcham
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Manual of Environmental Management is a practical guide for those involved in the control and reduction of environmental impacts in organisations. This comprehensive and practical guide takes you through the main environmental challenges organisations face and the improvement strategies used to manage...
Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management
Enhancing Individual and Team Performance in Fire and Emergency Services
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research that has been conducted within Australia, funded by the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre. The chapters source and contextualize their own research practice within the context of the international research literature. Therefore, while...
by Linda K. Stroh, J. Stewart Black, Mark E. Mendenhall
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
Although firms have been sending employees on international assignments for decades, systematic understanding is sorely lacking. This volume looks at such critical aspects of the assignment process as the selection process, the training required, factors that affect adjustment, performance and commitment,...
Beyond Command and Control
Leadership, Culture and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book will advance the understanding of leadership beyond the inherited myths and modalities of command and control. Leadership is separated from ideas and institutional seniority and explained as the collaborative power of one with others. Enabling the intelligent co-participation of all people,...
Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2010
Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2010, Keele, UK
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
This book compiles the papers presented at the Annual Conference of the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors held in April 2010. It embraces a wide range of issues related to ergonomics, reflecting the name change of the Ergonomics Society to the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors.
Construction Hazardous Materials Compliance Guide
Mold Detection, Abatement and Inspection Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
While it would appear that contractors are not affected by the liabilities of the work of others, it is important that they understand the documentation that establishes culpability and the terms of restitution. A "boots on the ground" approach to the pre and post construction inspections...
by Frederic P. Hartwell, Joseph F. McPartland
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
The Definitive Guide to the 2017 National Electrical Code
Completely revised to fully align with the 2017 NEC, McGraw-Hill’s National Electrical Code (NEC) 2017 Handbook, 29th Edition, presents the trusted advice and analysis you need to accurately interpret the latest set of rules. In-depth...
Eco-Driving
From Strategies to Interfaces
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Eco-driving has the potential to save fuel and reduce emissions without having to make any changes to vehicles or road infrastructure. This book provides an in-depth understanding of the contemporary issues in the human factors aspects of eco-driving strategies and interfaces and the effects on driver...
by Joanne Morra
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book presents an accessible introduction to data-driven storytelling. Resulting from unique discussions between data visualization researchers and data journalists, it offers an integrated definition of the topic, presents vivid examples and patterns for data storytelling, and calls out key challenges and new opportunities for researchers and practitioners.