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Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors

Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors, July 17–21, 2017, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Pedro Arezes

    1. Departamento de Produção e Sistemas, Campus de Azurém, Guimarães, Portugal

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  • Presents cross-disciplinary research on safety, health, and welfare management
  • Highlights the role of computer technologies and innovative design
  • Reports on cutting-edge research in occupational safety
  • Offers practical insights into the role of human factors in safety
  • Explores critical aspects in accident prevention
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC, volume 604)

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Table of contents (64 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Accident Analysis and Risk Prevention

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Case Study in Best Practice Incident Investigation

      • Jason Barlow, Manikam Pillay
      Pages 3-8

    3. “Day to Day, Town to Town, Sing My Songs, Travel on”? Examining Aspects of Precarious Employment for Work Psychologists in Austria

      • Lisa Hopfgartner, Christian Seubert, Jürgen Glaser
      Pages 9-20

    4. Age-Related Impairments like Reduced Hearing Capacity – A Safety Issue for the Working World?

      • Verena Wagner, Nina Raffaela Grossi, K. Wolfgang Kallus
      Pages 21-29

    5. Managing Tacit Knowledge in Safety Critical Systems

      • Toni Waefler, Katrin Fischer, Christian Kunz, Nina Saric
      Pages 30-36

    6. Advancing Organisational Health and Safety Management: Are We Learning the Right Lessons?

      • Manikam Pillay
      Pages 37-44

    7. Anomaly in Safety Management: Is It Constantly Possible to Make Safety Compatible with Economy?

      • Atsuo Murata, Makoto Moriwaka
      Pages 45-54

    8. Needs and Opportunities for Applying Voluntary Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems in the High-Hazard U.S. Dairy Production Industry

      • Daniel Autenrieth, Noa Román-Muñiz
      Pages 55-66

    9. Factors Which Affect Construction Safety in Different Types of Construction Work

      • Rita Yi Man Li, Daniel Chi Wing Ho, Beiqi Tang
      Pages 67-76

    10. Aviation Accident Analysis: A Case Study

      • M. Shahriari, M. E. Aydin
      Pages 77-85

    11. European Countries Social and Working Conditions Association with Fatal and Non-fatal Occupational Accidents

      • Denis A. Coelho
      Pages 86-98

  3. Culture and Organizational Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Are Safety Culture Assessments Really Necessary?

      • Frank W. Guldenmund
      Pages 101-110

    3. Strategically Developing a Resilient Safety Culture: Organizational Mindfulness and Mindful Organizing

      • Karen Klockner
      Pages 111-121

    4. Development and Initial Testing of a Regulatory Body Safety Culture Perception Survey

      • Mark Fleming, Kate C. Bowers, Tabatha Thibault, Brianna Cregan
      Pages 122-132

    5. Role of Emotions in Risk Perception

      • Catherine Huyen, Alexandra N. Vredenburgh, Ilene B. Zackowitz, Alison G. Vredenburgh
      Pages 133-143

    6. Safety Culture in the Ergonomics Perspective: Case Study in Offshore Platforms

      • Francisco Duarte
      Pages 144-151

    7. Importance of Safety Guidelines on South African Construction Sites

      • Ayodeji Oke, Clinton Aigbavboa, Mosima Seemola
      Pages 152-160

    8. Usability of Machinery

      • Gyula Szabó
      Pages 161-168
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About this book

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 readers, including decision makers, professional ergonomists and program managers in government and public authorities, with a timely snapshot of the state of the art in the field of safety, health, and welfare management. It also addresses agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), as well asother professionals dealing with occupational safety and health.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Departamento de Produção e Sistemas, Campus de Azurém, Guimarães, Portugal

    Pedro Arezes

About the editor

Pedro Arezes is a full Professor (Professor Catedrático) of Human Factors Engineering at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho (UMinho), in Portugal. He holds a PhD in Production and Systems Engineering from the University of Minho and he is a Visiting Fellow at AgeLab’s MIT and Harvard University, in Boston – USA. He is currently a visiting scholar at MIT andHarvard University, in Boston, USA. 

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