Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Industrial Health & Safety

This is a primary text project that combines sustainability development with engineering entrepreneurship and design to present a multi-disciplinary approach to modern engineering education. It is distinguished by extensive descriptions of concepts on sustainability, its principles and its relevance to environmental, economic and societal issues. The theme of sustainability is incorated throughout the text. This book presents a flexible organization, which will allow it to be used in a number of various courses, such as innovation in engineering, engineering entrepreneurship and design,...

This book presents the best practices and principles related to aquatic law and risk management. Its focus is injury and death occurring in aquatic environments including the ocean, pools, water parks, canals, rivers, lakes, dams, etc. It discusses the importance of aquatic risk management as it relates to aquatic accident prevention and the concept of duty and liability for a facility's management and staff. It also presents updated and relevant information about beach safety and the importance of hazard identification, warning, and elimination, and provides information for attorneys...

Effective use of driving simulators requires considerable technical and methodological skill along with considerable background knowledge. Acquiring the requisite knowledge and skills can be extraordinarily time consuming, yet there has been no single convenient and comprehensive source of information on the driving simulation research being conducted around the world. A how-to-do-it resource for researchers and professionals, Handbook of Driving Simulation for Engineering, Medicine, and Psychology brings together discussions of technical issues in driving simulation with...

This work details 100 examples of how to design a user interface that guards against potentially harmful use errors. The examples cover myriad features concerning hardware, software, and documents with emphasis placed on medical devices. This analysis is timely considering the intense focus within multiple worldwide industries to increase the safety of products, tolls, machines and systems, including those used by professionals and laypersons. This intense focus arises from the revelation that preventable error is among the leading causes of death, in the same magnitude of heart disease...

One of the primary applications of human factors engineering is in the aviation domain, and the importance of human factors has never been greater as U.S. and European authorities seek to modernize the air transportation system through the introduction of advanced automation. This handbook provides regulators, practitioners, researchers, and educators a comprehensive resource for understanding and applying human factors to air transportation.