Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors (eBook)

Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors, July 17–21, 2017, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA

Pedro Arezes (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2018
XIV, 643 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-60525-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book discusses the latest findings on ensuring employees' safety, health, and welfare at work. It combines a range of disciplines - e.g. work physiology, health informatics, safety engineering, workplace design, injury prevention, and occupational psychology - and presents new strategies for safety management, including accident prevention methods such as performance testing and participatory ergonomics.

 The book, which is based on the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors, held on July 17-21, 2017, in Los Angeles, California, USA, provides readers, including decision makers, professional ergonomists and program managers in government and public authorities, with a timely snapshot of the state of the art in the field of safety, health, and welfare management. It also addresses agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), as well as other professionals dealing with occupational safety and health.

Pedro Arezes is a full Professor (Professor Catedrático) of Human Factors Engineering at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho (UMinho), in Portugal. He holds a PhD in Production and Systems Engineering from the University of Minho and he is a Visiting Fellow at AgeLab's MIT and Harvard University, in Boston - USA. He is currently a visiting scholar at MIT andHarvard University, in Boston, USA. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.6.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
• Reihe/Serie: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 643 p. 170 illus.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Schlagworte: AHFE 2017 Proceedings • Construction Safety • Ergonomic Assessment Program • Hearing Protection • Injury prevention • Noise Exposure • Occupational Accidents • Participatory Ergonomics • Prevention in the Workplace • Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk • Resilience Engineering • risk assessment • Risk assessment methods • Risk Management • Safety management • workplace design • Workplace safety • Work-related Musculoskeletal
• ISBN-10: 3-319-60525-9 / 3319605259
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-60525-8 / 9783319605258