Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors

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 1721, 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.

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

Autorentext
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.