Ergonomics

The idea of creating artificial humans can be found at the beginning of the human culture. Ancient myths contain the stories of artificial humans b...

Office ergonomics whether we realize it or not directly or indirectly affects every one of us. It is the study of the work we do, the environment...

Office ergonomics whether we realize it or not directly or indirectly affects every one of us. It is the study of the work we do, the environment...

How Does the Bodys Motor Control System Deal with Repetition?While the presence of nonlinear dynamics can be explained and understood, it is diffic...

Savvy managers no longer look at contracts and the law reactively but use them proactively to reduce their costs, minimize their risks, secure key ...

Even with todays mobile technology, most work is still undertaken in a physical workplace. Todays workplaces need to be healthy environments that m...

While aviation fatalities have thankfully fallen dramatically in recent years, the phenomena of complexity and cognitive bias have been shown to be...

While aviation fatalities have thankfully fallen dramatically in recent years, the phenomena of complexity and cognitive bias have been shown to be...

This book discusses management decision-making under accident conditions as a vehicle to confirm the importance of clear decision-making guided by ...

Synthesising the latest thinking from neuroscience and psychology with the practice of safety management, Mindful Safety shows how a much stronger ...

The British Prime Minister has avowed to kill off the health and safety culture which he described as a monster. Nonetheless, industries face ever ...

This two-volume set was developed to help researchers and practitioners select measures to be used in the evaluation of human/machine systems. It c...

In contrast to nuclear plants and aerospace systems, human error is largely ignored in quantitative risk assessment for petroleum and chemical plan...

Technology is changing the way we do business, the way we communicate with each other, and the way we learn. This new edition is intended to help t...

It is more possible than ever to influence and shape our working environments, our experience of work and each other. Business leaders who set the ...

It is more possible than ever to influence and shape our working environments, our experience of work and each other. Business leaders who set the ...

The investigation and modelling of aviation accident causation is dominated by linear models. Aviation is, however, a complex system and as such su...

Root Cause Analysis, or RCA, What is it? Everyone uses the term, but everyone does it differently. How can we have any uniformity in our approach, ...

Safety managers today are required to go beyond compliance with the latest fire codes to implement proactive fire safety management programs that i...

This book covers a wealth of knowledge from experts and informed stakeholders on the best ways to understand, prevent, and control fall-related ris...

Gait analysis is the systematic study of human walking, using the eye and brain of experienced observers, augmented by instrumentation for measurin...

This research shows the dynamic relationship between work, health and satisfaction. New Directions in Organizational Psychology and Behavioral Medi...

When a venture seems to be faltering, do you persist and hope that things will get better or do you cut your losses? This may be one of the most im...

This book outlines the new concept of user engineering and covers the diversity of users, along with the business process that includes the design ...

Systems thinking tells us that human error, violations and technology failures result from poorly designed and managed work systems. To help us und...

This book promotes an understanding of the purposeful muddling that health care workers rely on to be better able to function and operate in the mu...

This book reboots the conversation about all technologies relating to robot safety. It covers key features of industry standards, relevant governme...

Brain Technology in Augmented Cognition: Current and Future Trends informs engineers interested in human-computer interaction about the current sta...

The field of risk science continues to learn from the long history of events to develop principles and practices that enable individuals, organizat...

The field of risk science continues to learn from the long history of events to develop principles and practices that enable individuals, organizat...

The book specifically focuses on the process of organizational sense-making within the human-technological work system; develops it as an analytic ...

Pre-Accident Investigations: Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning challenges safety and reliability professionals to get ...

Design thinking is a ground-breaking problem solving process which combines logic, intuition, and systematic reasoning to develop long-term solutio...

One of the primary applications of human factors engineering is in the aviation domain, and the importance of human factors has never been greater ...