Industrial Health category: 2135 books
Safety at the Sharp End
A Guide to Non-Technical Skills
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Many 21st century operations are characterised by teams of workers dealing with significant risks and complex technology, in competitive, commercially-driven environments. Informed managers in such sectors have realised the necessity of understanding the human dimension to their operations if they...
Evaluation of Rail Technology
A Practical Human Factors Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Rapid advancements in train control and in-cab technologies provide significant opportunities for rail operators to improve efficiency and enhance their operations. New technologies often provide elegant solutions to existing problems or new capabilities for the operator. However, new technologies...
Resilience Engineering Perspectives, Volume 1
Remaining Sensitive to the Possibility of Failure
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In the resilience engineering approach to safety, failures and successes are seen as two different outcomes of the same underlying process, namely how people and organizations cope with complex, underspecified and therefore partly unpredictable work environments. Therefore safety can no longer be...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Most aviation accidents are attributed to human error, pilot error especially. Human error also greatly effects productivity and profitability. In his overview of this collection of papers, the editor points out that these facts are often misinterpreted as evidence of deficiency on the part of operators...
New Tools, Old Tasks
Safety Implications of New Technologies and Work Processes for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
New Tools, Old Tasks explores how Integrated Operations (IO) will influence the safety of offshore drilling operations. The book is based on several years of practical experience combined with a research study on the safety of IO within the drilling domain. The overall objective of the book is to...
by BettyA. Foden
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Household Chemicals and Emergency First Aid is an essential manual that covers 386 household chemicals, discusses their hazards when mixed with other chemicals, describes the symptoms of overexposure, and provides instructions for emergency first aid treatment. The book is intended to be used in the...
by Alexander B. Morgan, Charles A. Wilkie
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Due to the emphasis on replacing halogenated flame retardants with alternate technologies, this handbook contains in one place all of the current commercial non-halogenated flame retardant technologies, as well as experimental systems near commercialization.
This book focuses on non-halogenated...
Fitting the Human
Introduction to Ergonomics / Human Factors Engineering, Seventh Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This new edition undergraduate introductory textbook follows the motto of the previous versions: "Solid information, easy-to-read, easy to understand, easy to apply." The aim remains the same: "Human engineering" workplaces, tools, machinery, computers, lighting, shiftwork, work...
by Robert Bridger
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Building on the success of previous editions, the 4th edition of ‘Introduction to Human Factors and Ergonomics’ provides a comprehensive and up to date introduction to the field. The new edition places the subject matter into a system context using a human-machine model to structure the chapters...
Just Culture
Restoring Trust and Accountability in Your Organization, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
A just culture is a culture of trust, learning and accountability. It is particularly important when an incident has occurred; when something has gone wrong. How do you respond to the people involved? What do you do to minimize the negative impact, and maximize learning? This third edition of Sidney...
Usability Evaluation
A Special Issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Volume 14, Number 1, 2002. Contents: J.R. Lewis, Introduction. ARTICLES: D.J. Gillan, R.G. Bias, Usability Science 1: Foundation. H.R. Hartson, T.S. Andre, R.C. Williges, Criteria for Evaluating Usability Evaluation Methods. R.E. Cordes, Task Selection Bias: A Case for User-Defined Tasks. M. Hertzum,...
by CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
This book helps advance process safety in a key area of interest. Currently, no literature exists which is solely dedicated to process safety for the bioprocessing industry. There are texts, guidelines, and standards on biosafety at the laboratory level and for industrial hygiene, but no guidelines...
Occupational Ergonomics
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The approach to the book is analogous to a toolkit. The user will open the book and locate the tool that best fits the ergonomic assessment task he/she is performing. The chapters of the book progress from the concept of ergonomics, through the various assessment techniques, and into the more complex...
Bowtie Methodology
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Bow Tie Methodology (BTM) consists of two methods, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA), which are connected by a single event. The methodology is holistic and provides the tools and pre-event analysis, which is also called the risk calculations, and post-event analysis, also called...