Industrial Health Safety category: 514 books
by Don Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Taking an integrated, systems approach to dealing exclusively with the human performance issues encountered on the flight deck of the modern airliner, this book describes the inter-relationships between the various application areas of human factors, recognising that the human contribution to the...
by Christopher D. Wickens, Justin G. Hollands, Simon Banbury
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Forming connections between human performance and design Engineering Psychology and Human Performance, 4e examines human-machine interaction. The book is organized directly from the psychological perspective of human information processing. The chapters generally correspond to the flow of information...
Distributed Situation Awareness
Theory, Measurement and Application to Teamwork
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Having an accurate understanding of what is going on is a key commodity for teams working within military systems. 'Situation awareness' (SA) is the term that is used within human factors circles to describe the level of awareness that operators have of the situation that they are engaged in; it focuses...
Modelling Command and Control
Event Analysis of Systemic Teamwork
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Since its inception, just after the Second World War, Human Factors research has paid special attention to the issues surrounding human control of systems. Command and control environments continue to represent a challenging domain for human factors research. Modelling Command and Control takes a...
Risk Assessment
A Practical Guide to Assessing Operational Risks
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Covers the fundamentals of risk assessment and emphasizes taking a practical approach in the application of the techniques
Written as a primer for students and employed safety professionals covering the fundamentals of risk assessment and emphasizing a practical approach in the application of...
Risk Assessment and Management of Repetitive Movements and Exertions of Upper Limbs
Job Analysis, Ocra Risk Indicies, Prevention Strategies and Design Principles
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
In industrialised countries, musculo-skeletrical disorders of the upper limbs represent one of the commonest work-related diseases. All working activities habitually requiring repetitive upper limb movements and exertions represent a potential risk for these disorders under certain conditions. This...
by Stuart D. Summerhayes
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
The CDM Regulations require all those involved in construction to adopt an integrated approach to health and safety management. This Procedures Manual provides a documentation system for compliance with the statutory requirements. It is being thoroughly revised to take account of major changes to the CDM Regulations 2015.
Operational Decision-making in High-hazard Organizations
Drawing a Line in the Sand
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book takes a fresh look at safety decision-making by documenting and examining stories told by front-line managers in three different high-hazard industries: a chemical plant, a nuclear power station and an air-navigation service provider. From Piper Alpha to Deepwater Horizon, accident analysis...
Professional Rope Access
A Guide To Working Safely at Height
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Guides the reader in the development and maintenance of a rope access program
Provides comprehensive guidance for employers, safety managers and rope access technicians to develop, maintain, and manage a rope access program
Offers specific guidance for writing a comprehensive managed fall protection...
by Clifton A. Ericson II
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Explains in detail how to perform the most commonly used hazard analysis techniques with numerous examples of practical applications
Includes new chapters on Concepts of Hazard Recognition, Environmental Hazard Analysis, Process Hazard Analysis, Test Hazard Analysis, and Job Hazard Analysis
Updated...
Japan’s Quest for Nuclear Energy and the Price It Has Paid
Accidents, Consequences, and Lessons Learned for the Global Nuclear Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Japan’s Quest for Nuclear Energy and the Price it has Paid: Accidents, Consequences, and Lessons Learned for the Global Nuclear Industry identifies major accidents in Japan that have happened at different stages of the nuclear fuel cycle in Japan, assesses the underlying causes of nuclear accidents,...
Cognitive Work Analysis
Applications, Extensions and Future Directions
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...
Improving Healthcare Team Communication
Building on Lessons from Aviation and Aerospace
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Communications research in aviation is widely regarded by many in the healthcare community as the 'gold standard' to emulate. Yet healthcare and aviation differ in many ways, as do the vital communications shared among members of clinical teams. Aviation team communication should, then, be understood...
by Capt. David Moriarty
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Practical Human Factors for Pilots bridges the divide between human factors research and one of the key industries that this research is meant to benefit—civil aviation. Human factors are now recognized as being at the core of aviation safety and the training syllabus that flight crew trainees have...