Author: Waldemar Karwowski, William S Marras ISBN: 0849319390 / 9780849319396 Year: 2006 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks.
Completely revised and updated, taking the scientific rigor to a whole new level, the second edition of the Occupational Ergonomics Handbook is now available in two volumes. This new organization de...
Author: James P Kohn ISBN: 1566702267 / 9781566702263 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This exceptional guidebook provides the strategies necessary to curtail ergonomic losses and costs associated with spiraling worker's compensation premiums and medical expenses, of major concern in ...
Author: Amit Bhattacharya, James D. Mcglothin ISBN: 0824794192 / 9780824794194 Year: 1996 Availability: In Stock
This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles of ergonomics. It details the practical application of ergonomic principles in solving actual problems in the workplac...
Author: Waldemar Karwowski ISBN: 0367391538 / 9780367391539 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
A comprehensive review of international and national standards and guidelines, this handbook consists of 32 chapters divided into nine sections that cover standardization efforts, anthropometry and ...
Author: Pascale Carayon ISBN: 1138074594 / 9781138074590 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The first edition of Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety took the medical and ergonomics communities by storm with in-depth coverage of human factors and ergon...
Author: Anne D. Kroemer, Karl H. E. Kroemer ISBN: 074840953X / 9780748409532 Year: 2001 Availability: In Stock
Office workers form a large and growing proportion of the workforce, especially with the growth of the service sector. Almost all of us work in computerised offices, and have become strongly attache...
Author: Barry Tillman, Peggy Tillman, Rhonda Renee Rose, Wesley E. Woodson ISBN: 0071702873 / 9780071702874 Year: 2014 Availability: 45-60 days
The third edition of this definitive handbook offers every aspect of updated information on ergonomics and human psychology for product designers.
Written by an expert in the field, Human Factors...
Author: Arunkumar Pannethur, Shrawan Kumar ISBN: 0367379694 / 9780367379698 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The current global economic downturn and considerable shifting in industrial and manufacturing activities have disturbed the homeostasis of the industrial order. Many issues have to be examined in n...
Author: Danuta Koradecka ISBN: 1439806845 / 9781439806845 Year: 2010 Availability: Out of Stock
Occupational safety and health — safe work in a safe environment. The challenge, of course, is how to make this happen and make it happen economically. A comprehensive study presenting the sta...
Author: Robert W. Proctor, Shimon Y. Nof, Yuehwern Yih ISBN: 1439846464 / 9781439846469 Year: 2011 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Cultural factors, in both the narrow sense of different national, racial, and ethnic groups, and in the broader sense of different groups of any type, play major roles in individual and group decisi...
Author: Pamela McCauley Bush ISBN: 1439804451 / 9781439804452 Year: 2012 Availability: Out of Stock
A complete introduction to the field, Ergonomics: Foundational Principles, Applications and Technologies discusses scientific principles, research, applications, and emerging trends in technology. C...
Author: Pei-Luen Rau, Tom Plocher, Yee-Yin Choong ISBN: 0367380560 / 9780367380564 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
With the increase of globalization of business and industry, IT products and services are often produced and marketed across geographical cultural boundaries without adequate consideration of cultur...
Author: Alan Hedge, Eduardo Salas, Hal W. Hendrick, Karel Brookhuis, Neville Anthony Stanton ISBN: 0367864525 / 9780367864521 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Research suggests that ergonomists tend to restrict themselves to two or three of their favorite methods in the design of systems, despite a multitude of variations in the problems that they face. H...
Author: Marcelo M. Soares, Neville A. Stanton ISBN: 1420046284 / 9781420046281 Year: 2011 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Every day we interact with thousands of consumer products. We not only expect them to perform their functions safely, reliably, and efficiently, but also to do it so seamlessly that we don’t e...
Author: Mark R. Lehto, Steven J. Landry ISBN: 1439853940 / 9781439853948 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Supplying a breadth and depth of coverage beyond that found in most traditional texts, Introduction to Human Factors and Ergonomics for Engineers, Second Edition presents and integrates important me...
Author: Babur Mustafa Pulat, David C. Alexander ISBN: 007050850X / 9780070508507 Year: 1991 Availability: In Stock
Industrial ergonomics is concerned with the scientific study of people in the workplace. This reference tool shows engineers and managers in a wide range of industries how ergonomics can reduce cost...
Author: Peter Robert Boyce ISBN: 1439874883 / 9781439874882 Year: 2014 Availability: Out of Stock
The availability of electric lighting has changed the lives of people the world over and lighting is a major consumer of energy, yet little has been written about the forms of lighting that can alte...
Author: Brian Hunt, Toni Ivergard ISBN: 0367783746 / 9780367783747 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The moment of truth—that instant when consumers experience and judge service quality—often decides business success. This research-driven book provides practical information on the desig...
Author: Anitawati Mohd Lokman, Mitsuo Nagamachi ISBN: 1498706827 / 9781498706827 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
Thanks to Apple and smart phone phenomenon, almost everyone has realized the emerging trend of user experience in design. Kansei engineering is the method to achieve that. This book defines Kansei a...
Author: Daniela Colombini, Enrico Occhipinti ISBN: 1498736629 / 9781498736626 Year: 2016 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book covers the application of the OCRA (Occupational Repetitive Actions) method. The methods make up a system dedicated to the analysis and management of the risk of biomechanical overload of ...
Author: James Reason ISBN: 1472418417 / 9781472418418 Year: 2013 Availability: Out of Stock
This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason’s 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human error. In it he presents an engrossing and very ...
Author: James Reason ISBN: 1472447654 / 9781472447654 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an ’organizational accident’. These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological syste...
Author: Robert W. Proctor, Trisha Van Zandt ISBN: 1482229560 / 9781482229561 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices, globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, all of which require significant input and...
Author: Andrew R. Dattel, Haydee M. Cuevas, Jonathan Velazquez ISBN: 1472475151 / 9781472475152 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Human Factors in Practice: Concepts and Applications is written for the practitioner who wishes to learn about human factors (HF) but is more interested in application (applied research) than theory...