Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health III (eBook)

Pedro M. Arezes, J. Santos Baptista, Paula Carneiro, Jacqueline Castelo Branco, Nélson Costa, J. Duarte, J. C. Guedes, Rui B. Melo, A. Sérgio Miguel, Gonçalo Perestrelo (Herausgeber)

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2021 | 1st ed. 2022
XXX, 669 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-89617-1 (ISBN)

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This book gathers cutting-edge research and best practices relating to occupational risk and safety management, healthcare and ergonomics. It covers strategies for different types of industry, such as construction, food, chemical and healthcare. It gives a special emphasis on challenges posed by automation, discussing solutions offered by technologies, and reporting on case studies carried out in different countries. Chapters are based on selected contributions to the 17th International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SHO 2021), held virtually on November 17-19, 2021, from Portugal. By reporting on different perspectives, such as the ones from managers, workers and OSH professionals, and covering timely issues, such as safety evaluation of human-robot collaboration, this book offers extensive information and a source of inspiration to OSH researchers, practitioners and organizations operating in both local and global contexts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.11.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
• Zusatzinfo: XXX, 669 p. 125 illus., 111 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Air quality assessment • Assessment of the work environment • Building Information Modeling for OSH • Ergonomic Assessment of Human-Robot Collaboration • Ergonomic Assessment of Workstations • Factors Affecting Work Ability • Fatigue Monitoring • Lean Healthcare • Musculoskeletal Overload • Occupational Accidents in Construction • Perception of Safety Culture • Psychosocial hazards evaluation • Radiation Protection in the Workplace • Real-time safety monitoring • Safety education for process operators • SHO 2021 • Stress biomarkers • Virtual reality applications in OSH • Workers with disabilities
• ISBN-10: 3-030-89617-X / 303089617X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-89617-1 / 9783030896171