Editors:
- Reports on 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
- Gives 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 491)
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Table of contents (51 papers)
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Front Matter
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Safety Management
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book discusses the latest findings towards ensuring people’s safety, health, and welfare at work. It crosses different disciplines, such as work physiology, health informatics, workplace design, injury prevention, and occupational psychology. It 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 2016 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors, held on July 27-31, 2016, in Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA, provides readers, including decision makers 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 OSHA and NIOSH as well as other professionals dealing with occupational safety and health.
Keywords
- Injury Prevention
- Workplace Design
- Prevention in the Workplace
- Participatory Ergonomics
- Risk Management
- Risk Assessment
- Safety Management
- Workplace Safety
- Construction Safety
- Participatory Ergonomics
- Work-related Musculoskeletal
- Resilience Engineering
- Ergonomic Assessment Program
- Noise Exposure
- Hearing Protection
- Risk Assessment Methods
- Occupational Accidents
- AHFE 2016 Proceedings
- quality control, reliability, safety and risk
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal
Pedro Arezes
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors , July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA
Editors: Pedro Arezes
Series Title: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41929-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41928-2Published: 02 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41929-9Published: 26 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2194-5357
Series E-ISSN: 2194-5365
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 562
Number of Illustrations: 84 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Human Resource Management, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Health Informatics, Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine