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

• Papers describe major trends in healthcare in Australia, Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, South America, UK and the USA
  
• Subjects addressed include new models of organisational governance, new medical technologies, and the promotion of private health insurance.
  
• Highlights convergence and divergence across national and international contexts
  
• Fosters links between organisational studies and medical sociology.
  
• Points to new research...

Each of the four volumes in the Handbook of Safety and Health for the Service Industry demonstrates how to tackle particular safety and health dangers in sub sectors of the service industry. They cover materials and goods services, infrastructure services, administrative services, and people-oriented services. Closely examining hazard identification, intervention, and prevention, the books provide readers with the practical information and tools necessary to assess and address the specific occupational safety and health issues of their industry sector while adhering to...

Industrial Safety and Health for Goods and Materials Services focuses on the safety requirements of the wholesale and retail trades, including warehousing. This detailed text describes the hazards associated with chemicals, compressed gases, and fire. In addition to discussing the ergonomics behind hand tools, ladders, machine guarding, material handling, and industrial trucks, the book:

• Addresses interventions and preventive approaches to help ensure a safe workplace
• Uses real-world examples and relevant illustrations
• Provides guidance on...

Industrial Safety and Health for Infrastructure Services provides an in-depth look into the areas of transportation, utilities, administrative, waste management, and remediation. It covers OSHA regulations in reference to the major safety and health hazards associated within these five fields. This user-friendly text:

• Provides guidance on removal, delimiting, and mitigation of safety and health hazards
• Includes a checklist and other tools to assist in assuring the achievement of a safer workplace, reasonably free from safety and health hazards

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Industrial Safety and Health for Administrative Services constitutes a much-needed source for the identification and prevention of most of the injuries and illnesses occurring in the financial and information sectors. The text thoroughly explains the issues of office health management, major safety and electrical hazards, and emergency response to violence. This volume:

• Uses real-world examples and relevant illustrations as an integral part of each chapter
• Provides guidance on removal, delimiting, and mitigation of safety and health hazards

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Industrial Safety and Health for People-Oriented Services focuses on the safety requirements of the tertiary sector of industry s education, health, and hospitality services. This is an instruction manual on managing a safe and healthy environment one free of biological, chemical, and ergonomics hazards while adhering to OSHA regulations. In addition to addressing interventions and preventive approaches to help ensure a safe workplace and applicable safety standards, this book:

• Explains workplace fire prevention relating to hot processes and radiation (both ionizing and...

Human error is involved in more than 90 percent of traffic accidents, and of those accidents, most are associated with visual distractions, or looking-but-failing-to-see errors. Human Factors of Visual and Cognitive Performance in Driving gathers knowledge from a human factors psychology standpoint and provides deeper insight into traffic -user behavior and the ways drivers acquire information from the road.

Emphasizes Drivers as Visual Information Processors

Because driving is an eyes-wide-open task, drivers are exposed to a multitude of visual stimuli along their journey. This...

Written by experts from various fields, this edited collection explores a wide range of issues pertaining to how computers evoke human social expectations. The book illustrates how socially acceptable conventions can strongly impact the effectiveness of human-computer interactions and how to consider such norms in the design of human-computer interfaces. Providing a complete introduction to the design of social responses to computers, the text emphasizes the value of social norms in the development of usable and enjoyable technology. It also describes the role of socially correct behavior...