Ergonomics

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 ...