Ergonomics and Human Factors in Safety Management

ISBN-13: 9780367873332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 403 str.

Pedro Miguel Ferreira Martins Arezes; Paulo Victor Rodrigues de Carvalho

Opis

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 sit

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.