Seaman's Guide to Human Factors, Leadership, and Personnel Management
Training and certification for Seafarers has been based on technical aspects, but the most important is dealing with people aboard. Written by a seamen with seamen in mind, and with the accuracy of a psychologist, this book covers what every officer should know to improve motivation, engagement, teamwork, and conflict handling.
Tool Steels
This book provides a handy source of information for increasing the life of tool steels through optimized design and manufacturing. Supplying a solid understanding of the metallurgy involved, the text explains how material compositions, manufacturing processes, heat treatments, surface hardening techniques, and coatings affect tool steel propert
Project Feasibility
This book presents a set of tools that will aid in deciding whether a project should go ahead, be improved, or abandoned altogether by pinpointing its vulnerabilities. It offers a review of project feasibility analysis, and more critically, psychodynamic aspects that are often neglected, including how stakeholders interact. It provides a complem
Additive Manufacturing
The book will offer case studies of commonly used AM technologies with basic numerical problems for better understanding. It will also include hybrid processes and 4D printing applications, which is not currently offered in other AM books.
Reliability Data on Fire Sprinkler Systems
This book covers fire and extinguishing theory and reliability theory. It's based on a year's study of historical literature, using critical review and document analysis. The book then suggests a new methodology for how a reliability survey should be conducted.
Smart Connection Systems
This book introduces new smart connection systems which can be used in aseismic building design in order to control inter-story drifts and to reduce residual displacements. They are also utilized as damper devices and base isolators. The application of these systems to composite moment frame buildings will also be treated in the book. In addition,
Earthquake Hazard Assessment
The book provides an overview of the background to and details of earthquake hazard estimation in India in a very comprehensive manner with details on seismicity data management, seismicity analysis, seismic source characterization, seismic hazard estimation using various methods and site characterization. The work presents a scientific approach
Geosynthetic Encased Columns for Soft Soil Improvement
This book deals with "geosynthetic encased columns", a relatively new technique used for the ground improvement of soft soils. The GEC construction technique is well supported by a number of calculation methods and is a suitable substitute for the more traditional stone columns technique, especially when applied to very soft soils.
A Practical Course in Advanced Structural Design
This book is written from the perspective of a practicing engineer with 35 years of experience now working in the academic world to pass on lessons learned over the course of a structural engineering career. It covers topics that will enable beginning structural engineers to gain an advanced understanding prior to entering the workforce.
Design of Breast Walls
The design of breast walls is important parameter for various earth-retaining purposes, and many problems are encountered in the field as a result of improper design and the proper explanation of parameters which influence the technoeconomic designs is required. The book provides insight into the design of retaining walls by explaining the basics of earth pressure theories, the parameters influencing earth pressures, gravity vis-?-vis breast walls and tables and charts for designing stone masonry and concrete breast walls across eight chapters. Details of the analysis are tabulated to aid professional engineers or designers in their practical work. FEATURES Basic principles, design methodology, the influence of various parameters on design and construction features Technoeconomical designs for various combinations of pertinent parameters How to design masonry and concrete walls Design principles and methodologies of designing breast walls with illustrative examples and construction features Design charts and tables for ease of access and a quick design process of breast walls This volume is aimed at professionals in civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, retaining walls, soil mechanics and foundation engineering, as well as engineers working in the highway, water resources and construction sectors.
System Lifecycle Management
Years of experience in the area of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) in industry, research and education form the basis for this overview. The author covers the development from PDM via PLM to SysLM (System Lifecycle Management) in the form commonly used today, which are necessary prerequisites for the sustainable development and implementation of IoT/IoS, Industry 4.0 and Engineering 4.0 concepts. The building blocks and properties of future-proof systems for the successful implementation of the concepts of Engineering 4.0 are thereby dedicated to holistic considerations, which also inform in detail. SysLM functions and processes in mechatronic development and design as well as across the entire product lifecycle - from requirements management to the Digital Twin - are covered as examples. SysLM trends such as low code development, cloud, disruptive business models, and bimodality provide an outlook on future developments. The author dedicates the treatment of the agile SysLM introduction to the implementation in the enterprise. The basics are deepened with examples of a concrete SysLM system.
Thermo-Energetic Design of Machine Tools
The approach to the solution within the CRC/TR 96 financed by the German Research Foundation DFG aims at measures that will allow manufacturing accuracy to be maintained under thermally unstable conditions with increased productivity, without an additional demand for energy for tempering. The challenge of research in the CRC/TR 96 derives from the attempt to satisfy the conflicting goals of reducing energy consumption and increasing accuracy and productivity in machining.In the current research performed in 19 subprojects within the scope of the CRC/TR 96, correction and compensation solutions that influence the thermo-elastic machine tool behaviour efficiently and are oriented along the thermo-elastic functional chain are explored and implemented. As part of this general objective, the following issues must be researched and engineered in an interdisciplinary setting and brought together into useful overall solutions: 1. Providing the modelling fundamentals to calculate the heat fluxes and the resulting thermo-elastic deformations in a comprehensive manner, 2. Mapping of the structural variability as a result of the relative movement inside the machine tool, 3. Providing the tools for an efficient adjustment of parameters that vary greatly in time and space by means of parameter identification methods as a prerequisite for correction and compensation solutions, 4. Engineering and demonstrating solutions to control-integrated correction of thermo-elastic errors by an inverse position setpoint compensation of the error at theTCP, 5. Engineering and demonstrating solutions based on the material properties to compensate for thermo-elastic effects through a homogeneous propagation of the temperature field, as well as reducing and smoothing the distribution of heat dissipated in supporting structures, 6. Developing metrological fundamentals to record the thermo-elastic errors in special structural areas of machine tools, 7. Engineering a methodological approach to simultaneous and complex evaluation of the CRC/TR 96 solutions, referring to their impact on product quality, production rate, energy consumption and machine tool costs
Engineering Design Applications III
This book provides an update on recent advances in various areas of modern engineering design, such as mechanical, materials, computer, and process engineering, which provide the foundation for the development of improved structures, materials, and processes. The modern design cycle is characterized by the interaction of different disciplines and a strong shift toward computer-based approaches involving only a small number of experiments for verification purposes. A major driver for this development is the increased demand for cost reduction, which is also connected to environmental demands. In the transportation industry (e.g. automotive or aerospace), where there is a demand for greater fuel efficiency, one solution is lighter structures and/or improved processes for energy conversion. Another emerging area is the interaction of classical engineering with the health and medical sector.
Safety Leadership
The text discusses a different, doable, and directed approach to improve safety, overall organizational performance, as witnessed in various industries across the globe. It will be an ideal reference text for professionals, academicians, students (undergraduate and graduate) in diverse areas such as aviation, nuclear power and human factors.
Emotional Engineering, Vol. 8
Mind-Body-Brain Problem.- Artificial Intelligence and Natural Intelligence.- The Human Brain: Secure Attachment Activates the Brainstem Centers of Wellbeing.- Value-Creating Communication.- Phoneme Research.- Can You Write Emotions in Mathematics? Modeling Emotional Dimensions of Novelty.- Computational Handicraft.- Trust Perception in User-Centered Cyber-Physical Systems.- A Neural Model of Aesthetic Preference for Product.- Classification of Aesthetic Curves and Surfaces.- Healthcare-related topic.- A Study of "Waku-Waku" in Work.- The Relation Between the Characteristics of Forest Sound and Psychological Impression.- From the Emotional Perception of Car Style towards the Brand Country Origin Recognition.
Patronaje de calzado y dise簽o de hormas
una gu穩a para principiantes sobre las t矇cnicas fundamentales de la fabricaci籀n del calzado聶Quieres aprender a hacer patrones de calzado? 聶Sabr穩as la diferencia entre dise簽ar una horma de un zapato de tac籀n alto y una deportiva, o un zapato de vestir? En el libro Patronaje de calzado y dise簽o de hormas te ense簽amos el proceso en el dise簽o de hormas y explicamos las t矇cnicas b獺sicas de patronaje y modelismo de calzado. Esta gu穩a revela el desarrollo de dise簽o y fabricaci籀n de hormas, la geometr穩a oculta y sus peculiaridades, la funcionalidad y los criterios para hacer la escala de tallas. Encontrar獺s muchos dise簽os y tipos de hormas para zapatillas, calzado deportivo, zapatos de tac籀n alto, botas, y mucho m獺s. Dedicamos la segunda parte del libro al patronaje, incluyendo una gu穩a paso a paso con m獺s de 200 fotograf穩as a color para que aprendas a modelar siendo primerizo. Mira y compara los patrones de muestras de calzado deportivo, zapatillas de ca簽a alta, zapatos de tac籀n y otros tipos de calzado. Aprende a hacer la trepa de una zapatilla y el proceso para crear patrones, c籀mo usar un programa de dise簽o asistido por ordenador para patronar y hacer el escalado de tallas. 聶Por qu矇 una horma de calzado tiene esa forma? 聶C籀mo puedo hacer patrones con herramientas b獺sicas? Encontrar獺s todas las respuestas dentro. 200 p獺ginas, 12 cap穩tulos y m獺s de 500 fotograf穩as a color.
City and Transportation Planning
This graduate-level textbook outlines strategies for sustainably integrating land use and transportation planning, addressing the impact on land use of advanced transport like light rail transit and autonomous cars, and the emerging focus on cyber space and the role of ICT and big data in city planning.
City and Transportation Planning
This graduate-level textbook outlines strategies for sustainably integrating land use and transportation planning, addressing the impact on land use of advanced transport like light rail transit and autonomous cars, and the emerging focus on cyber space and the role of ICT and big data in city planning.
Introduction to Workplace Safety and Health Management: A Systems Thinking Approach (Second Edition)
This book takes a systems-thinking approach to allow readers to understand how Workplace safety and health (WSH) is an integral part of any organisation. The different chapters are strung together by an overarching model of incident causation, and underpinning models are presented to allow a strong conceptual foundation. Practical WSH knowledge also discussed in relevant chapters to ensure that beginners have an introduction to the fundamentals of WSH hazards and controls.The second edition presents additional systems thinking concepts and archetypes not covered previously, the safe design process in Australia, thoughts on learning disabilities and safety culture, and additional case studies. Besides the strong emphasis on conceptual framework, readers will also be exposed to the details of a WSH management system and practical WSH processes, hazards and controls. A series of online quizzes are available to readers to help them to reinforce the concepts of each chapter.Undergraduates and post-graduates will benefit from the systematic introduction to the foundations of WSH management. Practitioners will strengthen their conceptual understanding and widen their perspective by re-visiting the foundations of WSH management through a systems-thinking lens.
Introduction to Workplace Safety and Health Management: A Systems Thinking Approach (Second Edition)
This book takes a systems-thinking approach to allow readers to understand how Workplace safety and health (WSH) is an integral part of any organisation. The different chapters are strung together by an overarching model of incident causation, and underpinning models are presented to allow a strong conceptual foundation. Practical WSH knowledge also discussed in relevant chapters to ensure that beginners have an introduction to the fundamentals of WSH hazards and controls.The second edition presents additional systems thinking concepts and archetypes not covered previously, the safe design process in Australia, thoughts on learning disabilities and safety culture, and additional case studies. Besides the strong emphasis on conceptual framework, readers will also be exposed to the details of a WSH management system and practical WSH processes, hazards and controls. A series of online quizzes are available to readers to help them to reinforce the concepts of each chapter.Undergraduates and post-graduates will benefit from the systematic introduction to the foundations of WSH management. Practitioners will strengthen their conceptual understanding and widen their perspective by re-visiting the foundations of WSH management through a systems-thinking lens.
Working Postures and Movements
The book addresses seating concepts, hand tool and pedal designs, foot-floor interfaces, digital human models for computer-aided design and engineering, and work organization (task duration, breaks, handling frequency) as they affect human performance and musculoskeletal injury reduction.
Plasticity, Limit Analysis, Stability and Structural Design
This book is a personal anthology of the author's utmost academic works and accomplishments with his former students and colleagues intended as an enduring record for the engineering community for many years to come.The author's forty-year professional career and academic life journey is first briefly sketched in Chapter 1 and more details are elaborated in three chapters that follow: Chapter 2: The first ten years at Lehigh - beginning to show; Chapter 3: Twenty=three years at Purdue - the highly productive years; and Chapter 4: seven years at UH - the pursuit of excellence. The author's specific academic contributions are documented in the following three chapters: Chapter 5: 23 academic bulletins are selected to highlight his 10 major research areas; Chapter 6: 23 Academic masterpiece books are listed along with their respective peer review comments; and Chapter 7: academic publications include journal articles, conference proceedings and symposiums, and lectures and keynotes. The book ends with the listing of all the author's 55 doctoral students' dissertation titles in Chapter 8.In 1975 at Lehigh, the author published a milestone treatise on Limit Analysis and Soil Plasticity. In 1982 at Purdue, he published another pioneering work on Plasticity in Reinforced Concrete.In September 1999, the author was recruited by UH to take the Deanship of the College of Engineering to accomplish the noble mission: to build the College to become one of the top 50 engineering schools by strengthening the faculty, improving the facilities, and increasing the enrollment. Over his seven years at UH, a lot of progress was made in all these three areas - the research program expanded, facilities improved, and enrollment increased.
Smart Sensing for Traffic Monitoring
Growth in urbanisation, particularly in emerging economies, is causing increased traffic congestion and affecting environmental conditions in cities. Cities need to manage this growth in traffic in an efficient way. Intelligent infrastructure for traffic monitoring and sensing offers a potential solution, and so this book explores the prospective role of this approach in managing congestion, the established and emerging related technologies, and routes to effective implementation. Intelligent infrastructure will also play an important role in the future automation of vehicles. Onboard sensor technology is well-established, but higher levels of vehicle automation are difficult to achieve without additional sensing technology on the infrastructure side. Thanks to recent advances in device and software technology, new and innovative approaches to intelligent sensing infrastructure, both fixed and onboard, can be implemented. The development and deployment of automated vehicles is a hot topic, with early versions potentially entering the market within 5-8 years, so as an overview of developments in the field this book is timely and relevant. The book systematically covers the key elements of intelligent infrastructure. It begins with the architectures and projects in key regions, and then continues with coverage of novel technologies for vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian detection using different kinds of recognition technology. The third part describes technology for detecting traffic conditions such as incidents, illegal parking and adverse weather. Smart Sensing for Traffic Monitoring offers methodically presented information for researchers, practitioners, and advanced students with an interest in the technologies behind intelligent infrastructure and traffic monitoring.
Les Puits Art矇siens
L'origine des puits art矇siens n'est pas aussi r矇cente que pourrait le faire supposer leur nom, tir矇 de la province d'Artois. En France, c'est en effet dans la province d'Artois qu'ont 矇t矇 creus矇es les premi癡res fontaines jaillissantes, et de l? le nom qui a pr矇valu. Mais bien des si癡cles avant que la province d'Artois f羶t constitu矇e, les peuples de l'Orient connaissaient l'art d'aller chercher dans les profondeurs de la terre l'eau des nappes invisibles, et de la faire monter ? la surface du sol, o羅 on l'employait pour tous les usages domestiques et pour les besoins de l'agriculture.Les oasis qui pars癡ment les d矇serts de la Syrie, de l'Arabie et de l'Egypte, ne doivent leur fertilit矇 qu'? des sources d'eaux jaillissantes pratiqu矇es par la main de l'homme. Or, quelques-unes de ces oasis 矇taient d矇j? c矇l癡bres dans les premiers temps de l'癡re chr矇tienne, ce qui fait remonter ? une 矇poque assez recul矇e l'origine des puits for矇s...
Digital Human Modeling for Vehicle and Workplace Design
This book presents seven case studies in which digital human models were used to solve different types of physical problems associated with proposed human-machine interaction tasks. This book includes contributions from researchers at Ford, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, the U.S. Air Force, and others.
Industrial Network Basics
Industrial Network Basics This practical guide focuses on many of the types of network technology and protocols commonly used in modern automation, CNC machinery and process control systems. Special emphasis is given to the unique characteristics of popular fieldbus protocols, and also the integration of industrial Ethernet applications such as FF-HSE, EtherNet/IP and PROFINET into hybrid networks. If you work as an industrial technician, Industrial Network Basics provides a valuable resource for gaining an understanding of the industrial networks commonly used in manufacturing and industrial settings.
The Digital Transformation of Logistics
The digital transformation is in full swing and fundamentally changes how we live, work, and communicate with each other. From retail to finance, many industries see an inflow of new technologies, disruption through innovative platform business models, and employees struggling to cope with the significant shifts occurring. This Fourth Industrial Revolution is predicted to also transform Logistics and Supply Chain Management, with delivery systems becoming automated, smart networks created everywhere, and data being collected and analyzed universally. The Digital Transformation of Logistics: Demystifying Impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution provides a holistic overview of this vital subject clouded by buzz, hype, and misinformation. The book is divided into three themed-sections: Technologies such as self-driving cars or virtual reality are not only electrifying science fiction lovers anymore, but are also increasingly presented as cure-all remedies to supply chain challenges. In The Digital Transformation of Logistics: Demystifying Impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the authors peel back the layers of excitement that have grown around new technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Blockchain or Cloud computing, and show use cases that give a glimpse about the fascinating future we can expect. Platforms that allow businesses to centrally acquire and manage their logistics services disrupt an industry that has been relationship-based for centuries. The authors discuss smart contracts, which are one of the most exciting applications of Blockchain, Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings for freight procurement, where numerous data sources can be integrated and decision-making processes automated, and marine terminal operating systems as an integral node for shipments. In The Digital Transformation of Logistics: Demystifying Impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, insights are shared into the cold chain industry where companies respond to increasing quality demands, and how European governments are innovatively responding to challenges of cross-border eCommerce. People are a vital element of the digital transformation and must be on board to drive change. The Digital Transformation of Logistics: Demystifying Impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution explains how executives can create sustainable impact and how competencies can be managed in the digital age - especially for sales executives who require urgent upskilling to remain relevant. Best practices are shared for organizational culture change, drawing on studies among senior leaders from the US, Singapore, Thailand, and Australia, and for managing strategic alliances with logistics service providers to offset risks and create cross-functional, cross-company transparency. The Digital Transformation of Logistics: Demystifying Impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution provides realistic insights, a ready-to-use knowledge base, and a working vocabulary about current activities and emerging trends of the Logistics industry. Intended readers are supply chain professionals working for manufacturing, trading, and freight forwarding companies as well as students and all interested parties.
Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, Hydrology and Water Resources for Civil Engineers
One of the core areas of study in civil engineering concerns water that encompasses fluid mechanics, hydraulics and hydrology. Fluid mechanics provide the mathematical and scientific basis for hydraulics and hydrology that also have added empirical and practical contents. The knowledge contained in these three subjects is necessary for the optimal and equitable management of this precious resource that is not always available when and where it is needed, sometimes with conflicting demands. The objective of Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, Hydrology and Water Resources for Civil Engineers is to assimilate these core study areas into a single source of knowledge. The contents highlight the theory and applications supplemented with worked examples and also include comprehensive references for follow-up studies. The primary readership is civil engineering students who would normally go through these core subject areas sequentially spread over the duration of their studies. It is also a reference for practicing civil engineers in the water sector to refresh and update their skills.
Advanced Soil Mechanics, Fifth Edition
The fifth edition of this established textbook offers a well-tailored resource for graduate students in geotechnical engineering, bridging the gap between undergraduate basics and leading-edge graduate level. Updated material on consolidation, shear strength of soils, and both elastic and consolidation settlements of shallow foundations.
Nonlinear Dynamics of Structures Under Extreme Transient Loads
The book covers model building for different engineering structures and provides detailed presentations of extreme loading conditions. It considers the levels of reserve in existing structures, and ways of reducing the negative impact of high-risk situations by employing sounder design procedures.
Structural Reliability and Time-Dependent Reliability
Introduction.- Probability Models.- Monte Carlo Simulation.- Structural Reliability Assessment.- Time-Dependendent Reliability Assessment.
Handbook of Teen and Novice Drivers
Traffic injuries are the leading cause of death globally among 15 to 19 year-olds. However, individuals charged with trying to solve the complex problem of teen and novice drivers are typically not in positions where they can spend the hundreds of hours gathering the information they need in order to make informed decisions about how best to mov
Classical Guitar Design
This book describes the entire process of designing guitars, including the theory and guidelines for implementing it in practice. It discusses areas from acoustics and resonators to new tools and how they assist traditional construction techniques. The book begins by discussing the fundamentals of the sounds of a guitar, strings, and oscillating systems. It then moves on to resonators and acoustics within the guitar, explaining the analysis systems and evaluation methods, and comparing classic and modern techniques. Each area of the guitar is covered, from the soundboard and the back, to the process of closing the instrument. The book concludes with an analysis of historic and modern guitars. This book is of interest to luthiers wanting to advance their practice, guitar players wishing to learn more about their instruments, and academics in engineering and physics curious about the principles of acoustics when applied to musical instruments.
Urban Water Systems & Floods III
Flooding is a global phenomenon that claims numerous lives worldwide each year. Apart from the physical damage to buildings, contents and loss of life, which are the most obvious, impacts of floods upon households and other more indirect losses are often overlooked. These indirect and intangible impacts are generally associated with disruption to normal life and longer term health issues. Flooding represents a major barrier to the alleviation of poverty in many parts of the developing world, where vulnerable communities are often exposed to sudden and life-threatening events. As our cities continue to expand, their urban infrastructures need to be re-evaluated and adapted to new requirements related to the increase in population and the growing areas under urbanization. Topics such as contamination and pollution discharges in urban water bodies, as well as the monitoring of water recycling systems are currently receiving a great deal of attention from researchers and professional engineers working in the water industry. The papers contained in this volume cover these problems and deals with two main urban water topics: water supply networks and urban drainage. Originating from the 7th International Conference on Flood and Urban Water Management, the included research works include innovative solutions that can help bring about multiple benefits toward achieving integrated flood risk and urban water management strategies and policy.
Transportation Asset Management
Transportation asset management delivers efficient and cost-effective investment decisions to support transportation infrastructure and system usage performance measured in economic, social, health, and environmental terms. It can be applied at national, state, and local levels, covering static, time-dependent and dynamic traffic.
Safety Metrics for the Modern Safety Professional
This book investigates the world of leading indicators and explores how they can effectively be used, providing the 21st Century safety professionals with alternative metrics and guidance to enable them to make a difference in managing risk within an organization.
Dams and Water Transfers - An Overview / Barrages Et Transferts d’Eau - Aper癟u
The present Bulletin presents a complete response from the 'Technical Committee of ICOLD on Dams and Water Transfer (CDWT)' to the Terms of Reference. Essentially, it dwells on possible need, potential and problems in water transfers that must be handled to overcome B/C issues faced by needy countries.
Knowledge Engineering
This book shows how to develop process-oriented methodologies, and presents a wide range of quantitative methods applied to various knowledge engineering problems.
Paving Our Ways
Paving Our Ways is the only comprehensive history of the world's pavements, from the earliest human settlements to the present day. It traces the human and social aspects of pavement development and use for general readers, with detailed technical background for students of transport engineering orengineering history and sociology.
Additive Manufacturing Technologies
This textbook covers in detail digitally-driven methods for adding materials together to form parts. A conceptual overview of additive manufacturing is given, beginning with the fundamentals so that readers can get up to speed quickly. Well-established and emerging applications such as rapid prototyping, micro-scale manufacturing, medical applications, aerospace manufacturing, rapid tooling and direct digital manufacturing are also discussed. This book provides a comprehensive overview of additive manufacturing technologies as well as relevant supporting technologies such as software systems, vacuum casting, investment casting, plating, infiltration and other systems.Reflects recent developments and trends and adheres to the ASTM, SI and other standards;Includes chapters on topics that span the entire AM value chain, including process selection, software, post-processing, industrial drivers for AM, and more;Provides a broad range of technical questions to ensure comprehensive understanding of the concepts covered.
Symbiotic Safety
Being a Safety Professional is not for the weak. There are numerous competing forces, personalities, and agendas. Intuitively it should be simple. How could it be hard to convince people not to get injured or killed? The reality is that it requires a tremendous amount of leadership and skill to successfully navigate an organization and its employees toward safety excellence. The unskilled will advocate for more resources. The poor leader will blame others. The truly successful safety professionals understand the role of safety extends beyond the prevention of accidents. They use their leadership skill and influence to improve overall operational success. Many safety professionals have focused almost all their efforts on compliance monitoring and safety training. Both of these are good ideas. The frustration begins to build because these activities achieve a moderate amount of success, but not a great amount. A frequent limiting factor in many organizations is the safety professional's failure to fully understand how operational efficiency is connected to safety success. Many organizations with charismatic safety professional will be lured into dedicating more resources into nonproductive roles to improve safety via more inspections and safety training. This resource dump is touted as the company's increasing commitment to Safety. Unfortunately, more resources thrown at the same problem will have an even smaller impact.The key component that is often overlooked by safety professionals is that safety and operations work better together. There should not be an Operations Manual and a separate Safety Manual that would indicate one set of procedures to accomplish what we get paid for and then another set of procedures to help ensure no one gets hurt. Safety professionals should be focused on the organizations' operational side to help blend safety and operations into a homogenous activity. This way, the organization produces its product with one set of procedures that is efficient and safe. Never again should there be friction or opposition between safety and operations. Both should symbiotically help each other improve.Achieving this symbiosis requires the modern safety professional to have a tremendous amount of leadership and communication skills. A poor leader or communicator will not be able to bridge the gap between safety and operations. Symbiotic Safety will help safety professionals understand the symbiotic relationship between safety and operations and equip them to understand the leadership and communications skills required to blend them successfully.
Strategic Environmental Performance
Designed to enhance the feasibility of regulatory compliance, this book provides clear guidance to implementation of environmental laws, providing instructions on metric development and usage and practical assistance enabling organisations in developing and sustaining compliance.
Bicycle Engineering and Technology
Covering the applied science, manufacturing methods and mathematics related to cycles and cycling in an easy-to-understand way which will be accessible to both experienced cyclists and laypeople. This book will be a particularly useful resource for students on IMI, City & Guilds and Cytech Cycle Maintenance courses.
Safety Cultures, Safety Models
The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the "safety cloud", and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already travelled, their context, objectives and constraints. What link can be established between safety culture and safety models in order to increase safety within companies carrying out dangerous activities? First, while the term "safety culture" is widely shared among the academic and industrial world, it leads to various interpretations and therefore different positioning when it comes to assess, improve or change it. Many safety theories, concepts, and models coexist today, being more or less appealing and/or directly useful to the industry. How, and based on which criteria, to choose from the available options? These are some of the questions addressed in this book, which benefits from the expertise of its worldwide famous authors in several industrial sectors. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Safety Cultures, Safety Models
The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the "safety cloud", and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already travelled, their context, objectives and constraints. What link can be established between safety culture and safety models in order to increase safety within companies carrying out dangerous activities? First, while the term "safety culture" is widely shared among the academic and industrial world, it leads to various interpretations and therefore different positioning when it comes to assess, improve or change it. Many safety theories, concepts, and models coexist today, being more or less appealing and/or directly useful to the industry. How, and based on which criteria, to choose from the available options? These are some of the questions addressed in this book, which benefits from the expertise of its worldwide famous authors in several industrial sectors. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
The Illusion of Risk Control
This book explores the implications of acknowledging uncertainty and black swans for regulation of high-hazard technologies, for stakeholder acceptability of potentially hazardous activities and for risk governance. The conventional approach to risk assessment, which combines the likelihood of an event and the severity of its consequences, is poorly suited to situations where uncertainty and ambiguity are prominent features of the risk landscape. The new definition of risk used by ISO, "the effect of uncertainty on [achievement of] one's objectives", recognizes this paradigm change. What lessons can we draw from the management of fire hazards in Edo-era Japan? Are there situations in which increasing uncertainty allows more effective safety management? How should society address the risk of potentially planet-destroying scientific experiments?This book presents insights from leading scholars in different disciplines to challenge current risk governance and safety management practice. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
The Illusion of Risk Control
This book explores the implications of acknowledging uncertainty and black swans for regulation of high-hazard technologies, for stakeholder acceptability of potentially hazardous activities and for risk governance. The conventional approach to risk assessment, which combines the likelihood of an event and the severity of its consequences, is poorly suited to situations where uncertainty and ambiguity are prominent features of the risk landscape. The new definition of risk used by ISO, "the effect of uncertainty on [achievement of] one's objectives", recognizes this paradigm change. What lessons can we draw from the management of fire hazards in Edo-era Japan? Are there situations in which increasing uncertainty allows more effective safety management? How should society address the risk of potentially planet-destroying scientific experiments?This book presents insights from leading scholars in different disciplines to challenge current risk governance and safety management practice. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Ausgleichungsrechnung
Die Ausgleichungsrechnung ist fundamental f羹r s瓣mtliche Bereiche des Vermessungswesens. Dieses Buch ist ein einf羹hrendes Lehrbuch f羹r Studierende ab dem 1. Semester in den Bereichen Vermessung und Geoinformation. Die grundlegenden Methoden und Verfahren der Ausgleichungsrechnung werden ausf羹hrlich behandelt, moderne Konzepte und L繹sungsans瓣tze werden vorgestellt. Neben traditionellen Betrachtungen wird in diesem Buch Wert gelegt auf die Nutzung von GPS-Messungen, die Behandlung der Datumsproblematik, die Denkweise der robusten Statistik, die Behandlung von Transformationsans瓣tzen sowie die L繹sungsans瓣tze f羹r Deformationsuntersuchungen. Neben ausf羹hrlichen Herleitungen und Begr羹ndungen enth瓣lt der Text eine Vielzahl von Beispielen, die zum Verst瓣ndnis und Erlernen des Stoffes beitragen.
