Ergonomics and Human Factors in Safety Management - Paperback

by Pedro Miguel Ferreira Martins Arezes (Editor), Paulo Victor Rodrigues de Carvalho (Editor)

Accident prevention is a common thread throughout every workplace, yet keeping employee safety and health knowledge current is a continual challenge for all employers. Ergonomics and human factors knowledge must be included in, or be a part, of the safety management as a cross-disciplinary area concerned with the understanding of actual work sit

Author Biography

Pedro Arezes is a Professor of Human Factors Engineering at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, in Portugal.

Paulo Victor Rodrigues de Carvalho is a professor of the Post Graduate Program in Informatics and in the Professional Masters in Environmental Engineering of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.