Human factors and behavioural safety /
By: Stranks, Jeremy [author.].
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon, England : Routledge, 2011Edition: [2nd edition].Description: xiv, 483 pages : illustrations 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780750681551; 9780750681551:; 0750681551.Subject(s): Human engineering | Industrial safety | Industrial managementDDC classification: 658.382Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-468), glossary and index.
Preface -- Human behaviour and safety -- Human sensory and perceptual processes -- Orgabizations and groups -- People factors -- Organizational control and human reliability -- Improving human reliability -- Ergonomic principles -- Ergonomics and human reliability -- principles of communication -- Verbal and nonverbal communication --Written communication -- Interpersonal skills -- Systematic training -- Presentation skills -- Health and safety culture -- Change and change management -- Stress and stress management -- the behavioural safety approach.
Written by Jeremy Stranks, this book covers the general principles of both human factors and behavioural safety without going into more detail than needed by health and safety students and professionals.