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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...

Occupational Safety and Hygiene II contains selected papers from the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SHO2014, Guimaraes, Portugal, 13-14 February 2014), which was organized by the Portuguese Society for Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SPOSHO). The contributions focus on selected topics, which include (but is not limited to):

• Occupational safety
• Risk assessment
• Safety management
• Ergonomics
• Management systems
• Environmental ergonomics
• Physical environments
• Construction safety, and
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Occupational Safety and Hygiene IV covers a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to:

- Occupational Safety

- Risk Assessment

- Ergonomics

- Management Systems

- Physical Environment

- Construction Safety, and

- Human Factors

This compilation of papers in the domain of occupational safety and hygiene is mainly based on research works carried out at universities and other research institutions, and on practical studies developed by Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) practitioners within their companies. Accordingly, this book will be helpful to get...

Occupational Safety and Hygiene presents selected papers from the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene SHO2013 (Guimaraes, Portugal, 14-15 February 2013), which was organized by the Portuguese Society for Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SPOSHO). The contributions from 15 different countries focus on:

- Occupational safety

- Risk assessment

- Safety management

- Ergonomics

- Management systems

- Environmental ergonomics

- Physical environments

- Construction safety

- Human factors

Accident prevention is a common thread throughout every aspect of our society. However, even with the most current technological developments, keeping people safe and healthy, both at workplaces and at other daily activities, is still a continual challenge. When it comes to work environments, ergonomics and human factors knowledge can play an important role and, therefore, must be included in, or be a part of, the safety management as a cross-disciplinary area concerned with the understanding of actual work situations and potential variables. This multidisciplinary approach will ultimately...