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Examines the scientific basis for connecting musculoskeletal disorders with the workplace, considering people, job tasks, and work environments. This work draws conclusions about the likelihood of causal links and the effectiveness of intervention strategies. It offers recommendations for what actions can be considered on the basis of information.

Presents a preliminary assessment of what is known about the relationship between musculoskeletal disorders and what may cause them. This book includes papers and a workshop summary of findings from orthopedic surgery, public health, occupational medicine, epidemiology, risk analysis, ergonomics, and human factors.

Within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Airway Transportation System Specialists ATSS) maintain and certify the equipment in the National Airspace System (NAS). This book reviews the duties of employees in job series 2101 (Airways Transportation Systems Specialist) in the Technical Operations service unit.

Improving Self-Escape from Underground Coal Mines (2013)

Focuses on the interaction of pilots and air traffic controllers, with a growing network of automated functions in the airspace system. This book explores ways in which technology can build on human strengths and compensate for human vulnerabilities, minimizing both mistrust of automation and complacency about its abilities.

In the summer of 2002, the Office of Naval Research asked the Committee on Human Factors to hold a workshop on dynamic social network and analysis. The presentations at this workshop were grouped into four sessions: Social Network Theory Perspectives, Dynamic Social Networks, Metrics and Models, and Networked Worlds.

Describes and evaluates models of human performance and their use in the design and evaluation of human-technology systems. This book focuses on the modeling of system operators who perform supervisory and manual control tasks. It describes information processing, control theory, task network, and knowledge-based models.