Ergonomics and Human Factors in Safety Management (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Arezes, Pedro Miguel Ferreira Martins; Rodrigues De Carvalho, Paulo Victor

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Accident prevention is a common thread throughout every workplace, yet keeping employee safety and health knowledge current is a continual challenge for all employers. Ergonomics and human factors knowledge must be included in, or be a part, of the safety management as a cross-disciplinary area concerned with the understanding of actual work situations and potential variables ensuring the safety, health, and wellbeing of all collaborators. The main goal of this new book is to present theories and describe practices to foster a safe work and working environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 421
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498727570
• Artikelnr.: 45614885

Autorenporträt

Pedro Arezes is a Professor of Human Factors Engineering at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, in Portugal. Paulo Victor Rodrigues de Carvalho is a professor of the Post Graduate Program in Informatics and in the Professional Masters in Environmental Engineering of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Inhaltsangabe

Reliability in Occupational Risk Assessment: Stability and Reproducibility
Evaluation When Using a Matrix-Based Approach; Regulatory, Organizational,
and Operational Issues in Road Construction Safety; Development of an
Occupational Health and Safety Management System for Manufacturing
Companies in Mexico Using Factorial Analysis; Characterization of the
Portuguese Furniture Industry's Safety Performance and Monitoring Tools;
HSEQ Assessment Procedure for Supplying Network: A Tool for Promoting
Sustainability and Safety Culture in SMEs; Ergonomics Point of View of Work
Accidents in Safety Management Perspective; S-MIS: Identifying, Monitoring,
and Interpreting Proactive Safety Indicators; Abilities and Cognitive Task
Analysis in an Electric System Control Room for Developing a Training
Simulator; Immersive Virtual Environment or Conventional Training?
Assessing the Effectiveness of Different Training Methods on the
Performance of Industrial Operators in an Accident Scenario; Knowledge
Management for Counterbalancing the Process of Loss of Skills at Work: A
Practical Study; Human Factors Analysis and Behavior Modeling for the
Simulation of Evacuation Scenarios; Development of an Interactive
Educational Game to Learn Human Error: In Case of Developing a Serious Game
to Acquire Understanding of Slips; Transitional Journey Maps: Reflections
on Creating Workflow Visualizations; The Missing Links in System Safety
Management, Prediction of High Risk of Drowsy Driving by a Bayesian
Estimation Method: An Attempt to Prevent Traffic Accidents due to Drowsy
Driving; Space Missions as a Safety Model; Categorization of Effective
Safety Leadership Facets; Women with Upper Limb Repetitive Strain Injury
(RSI) and Housework