1st Edition
Environmental Ergonomics: Principles, Methods, and Applications
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.
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Appendix 5
Appendix 6
Appendix 7
Appendix 8
Appendix 9
Appendix 10
Appendix 11
Appendix 12
References
Index
Biography
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).
