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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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 as other professionals dealing with occupational safety and health. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Case Study in Best Practice Incident Investigation....Pages 3-8 “Day to Day, Town to Town, Sing My Songs, Travel on”? Examining Aspects of Precarious Employment for Work Psychologists in Austria....Pages 9-20 Age-Related Impairments like Reduced Hearing Capacity – A Safety Issue for the Working World?....Pages 21-29 Managing Tacit Knowledge in Safety Critical Systems....Pages 30-36 Advancing Organisational Health and Safety Management: Are We Learning the Right Lessons?....Pages 37-44 Anomaly in Safety Management: Is It Constantly Possible to Make Safety Compatible with Economy?....Pages 45-54 Needs and Opportunities for Applying Voluntary Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems in the High-Hazard U.S. Dairy Production Industry....Pages 55-66 Factors Which Affect Construction Safety in Different Types of Construction Work....Pages 67-76 Aviation Accident Analysis: A Case Study....Pages 77-85 European Countries Social and Working Conditions Association with Fatal and Non-fatal Occupational Accidents....Pages 86-98 Front Matter....Pages 99-99 Are Safety Culture Assessments Really Necessary?....Pages 101-110 Strategically Developing a Resilient Safety Culture: Organizational Mindfulness and Mindful Organizing....Pages 111-121 Development and Initial Testing of a Regulatory Body Safety Culture Perception Survey....Pages 122-132 Role of Emotions in Risk Perception....Pages 133-143 Safety Culture in the Ergonomics Perspective: Case Study in Offshore Platforms....Pages 144-151 Importance of Safety Guidelines on South African Construction Sites....Pages 152-160 Usability of Machinery....Pages 161-168 Contributory Factors Analysis on Undergraduates’ Unsafe Acts at University....Pages 169-177 Analysis on Human Unsafe Acts Contributing to Falling Accidents in Construction Industry....Pages 178-185 Study of the Influence of Training in Occupational Safety and Health in the Human Factors of the Construction Sector....Pages 186-194 Front Matter....Pages 99-99 Towards a Framework for Steering Safety Performance: A Review of the Literature on Leading Indicators....Pages 195-204 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Motigravity: A New VR System to Increase Performance and Safety in Space Operations Simulation and Rehabilitation Medicine....Pages 207-217 Two-Hand Actuator Placement for Power Press Operation: A Reexamination of After-Reach Speeds....Pages 218-224 Risk Communication for Consumer Products....Pages 225-235 Soldier Protection of Staying in the Radiated Field Generated by Antenna of Selected Military Communications Systems....Pages 236-247 Work Automation and Psychophysical Hazards in Employees’ Opinion....Pages 248-257 Is It Smart to Use Smartphones to Measure Illuminance for Occupational Health and Safety Purposes?....Pages 258-268 Analysis of Competencies for Decision Crisis Management in Actions Under Progressive Stress: A Simulated Case....Pages 269-277 Investigation of Human’s Evacuation Behavior in Multi-ethnics Jumping-off of China....Pages 278-287 Assessment of Human Factors Analysis and Classification System in Construction Accident Prevention....Pages 288-295 Human Element as the Contributing Factor Towards Construction Accidents from the Perspective of Malaysian Residential Construction Industry....Pages 296-308 Lessons Learned from Analysis of Los Frailes Tailing Dam Failure....Pages 309-317 Blame Culture in Workplace Accidents Investigation: Current Model Discussion and Shift Requirements for a Collaborative Model....Pages 318-326 Burning and Electrocution Risk’s Evaluation and Prevention Procedures: A Case Study in a Production Work Shop....Pages 327-339 Development of Child Climbing Behavior Video Database....Pages 340-346 STAMP Analysis of the Hanmi Short Selling Episode....Pages 347-356 An Epidemiological Perspective of Individual and Population Health Risk Prevention....Pages 357-368 Development of a Risk Assessment Tool for Small Scale Gold Mining in the Philippines....Pages 369-374 Proposal of a Mathematical Model of Prediction of Sinistrality Values for Valuation of Organizational Management Indicators, Applied to the Construction Industry....Pages 375-383 Behavior Monitoring with Non-wearable Sensors for Precision Nursing....Pages 384-392 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Thermal Environment: Case Study of a Meat Processing Industry....Pages 393-402 Examination of Occupational Health and Safety Practices in Ghana....Pages 403-409 Front Matter....Pages 411-411 Smart Phone Use and the Increased Risks of Cumulative Trauma Disorders in Children....Pages 413-422 Ergonomic Assessment Tool for Real-Time Risk Assessment of Seated Work Postures....Pages 423-434 Three Times Smart – Smart Workplaces, Smart Lighting & Smart Glass....Pages 435-446 Analysis of Infrared Imaging During Vertical Handling Tasks in Workers with Different Levels of Obesity....Pages 447-455 Safety Culture and Its Contributing Factor in Education Sector in Malaysia....Pages 456-464 Dynamic Fuzzy Safety Analysis of an Industrial System....Pages 465-471 Implementation Proposal of OH&S Management System According to the Standard ISO/DIS 45001....Pages 472-485 Assessing the Safety Use of Tower Cranes on Construction Sites in Central Region of Ghana....Pages 486-496 Study on Error-Cognition Mechanism of Task Interface in Complex Information System....Pages 497-506 The Design of Alarm Systems and Alarm Management - An Empirical Investigation from an Ergonomic Perspective....Pages 507-515 Assessment and Comparison of Human-Robot Co-work Order Picking Systems Focused on Ergonomic Factors....Pages 516-523 A Press-Through Package Design Similarity Index with Inpainting Technique....Pages 524-531 Ergonomic Work Analysis of Industrial Quality Control Workstations....Pages 532-544 Front Matter....Pages 545-545 The Exploration and Analysis of the Influence Factors for Staff Interactive Relationship....Pages 547-556 The Effects of Night Shift Schedule on Workers’ Life and Wellbeing: Gender Differences....Pages 557-563 Occupational Health and Safety Dimensions and Work Outcomes in the Mental Hospitals in Ghana: The Moderating Effect of Job Satisfaction....Pages 564-577 Noninvasive Estimation of Lumber Disk Load During Motion to Improve the Posture....Pages 578-588 Front Matter....Pages 589-589 Mining Traffic Data for the Development of an Accident Warning Application for Tourists....Pages 591-603 Front Matter....Pages 589-589 Driving Workload Indicators: The Case of Senior Drivers....Pages 604-615 A Study of the Knowledge, Attitude, Behaviour and Practices Pertaining to the Safety of Public School Children Among School Van Drivers in the 5 Towns of the Republic of Mauritius....Pages 616-626 An Integrative Literature Review: What Are the Barriers that Stop Organisations from Learning the Lessons Highlighted in Serious Incident Investigations?....Pages 627-634 The Study of Population Evacuation Problems....Pages 635-640 Back Matter....Pages 641-643