Environmental Ergonomics: Principles, Methods, and Applications

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Ken Parsons is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Ergonomics at Loughborough University, UK. After completing a PhD and postdoctoral research at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, he founded the Human Thermal Environments Laboratory at Loughborough in 1981. Ken became head of the Department of Human Sciences in 1996 covering research and teaching in ergonomics, psychology and human biology. He was Dean of Science in 2003 to 2009, and pro-vice chancellor for research from 2009 to 2012. He is convenor of the International standards working group on Ergonomics and integrated environments. He has produced over 200 publications including the CRC Press books Human Thermal Environments (2014), Human Thermal Comfort (2020), Human Heat Stress (2019) and Human Cold Stress (2021).

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Environmental Ergonomics: Principles, Methods, and Applications provides the philosophy, principles and application of environmental ergonomics as a universal concept and considers total environments as an integration of environmental factors to which people are exposed.

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Environmental Ergonomics: Principles, Methods, and Applications provides the philosophy, principles and application of environmental ergonomics as a universal concept and considers total environments as an integration of environmental factors to which people are exposed.

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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Part 1: Environmental Ergonomics

Chapter 1: Environmental Ergonomics

Chapter 2. Measuring the environment

Chapter 3. Measuring and predicting human response to the environment

Part 2: Thermal Environments

Chapter 4. Environmental ergonomics and the assessment of the thermal environment

Chapter 5. Case study - thermal comfort in an open plan office

Chapter 6. Case study - The avoidance of heat casualties in special forces selection trials

Chapter 7. Case study - Environmental ergonomics survey of a cold store

Part 3: Environmental Ergonomics and the assessment of noise and the acoustic environment

Chapter 8. Human response to the acoustic environment

Chapter 9. Case study - An environmental ergonomics survey of noise in a paper mill

Chapter 10. Noise annoyance

Chapter 11. Case study - Environmental ergonomics survey of noise in a call centre in a large open plan office

Part 4: Vibration

Chapter 12. Human response to whole-body vibration

Chapter 13: Case study: Assessment of vibration ride quality in a petrol and electric car

Chapter 14. Case study - Assessment of vibration in an office

Chapter 15. Human response to holding a vibrating object

Chapter 16. Case study - Assessment of vibration at work in a dockyard involving vibrating tools

Part 5: Environmental Ergonomics, Light and the visual environment

Chapter 17. Human response to light

Chapter 18. Case study - Environmental ergonomics lighting survey of an open plan office

Part 6: Environmental Ergonomics and Air Quality

Chapter 19. Air Quality

Chapter 20. Case study - Environmental Ergonomics assessment of air quality in a university dining Hall.

Part 7: Environmental Ergonomics for diverse environments and diverse populations

Chapter 21. Environmental Ergonomics in diverse environments

Chapter 22. Environmental Ergonomics, Individual differences and diverse populations

Part 8: Environmental Ergonomics and integrated environments

Chapter 23 Integrated environments

Chapter 24 Case study - An integrated environmental ergonomics assessment of a 'gold-standard' office.

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References

Index