Occupational Safety and Hygiene IV ─ Selected, Extended and Revised Contributions from the International Symposium Occupational Safety and Hygiene, Guimaraes, Portugal, 23-24 March 2016

Occupational Safety and Hygiene IV is a compilation of selected works within the domain of occupational safety and hygiene, focusing on occupational safety, risk assessment, safety management, ergonomics, management systems, environmental ergonomics, physical environments, construction safety and human factors.
The selected works are based on research carried out by universities and other research institutions, and partly based on practical studies developed by Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) practitioners within companies. Accordingly, this book will provide insight in up-to-date research within the mentioned domains. It also hands practical tools and approaches that are currently used by OHS professionals worldwide.

Pedro Arezes is a full professor on Human Factors Engineering at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho (UMinho), in Portugal. He is also a visiting scholar at MIT and Harvard University, in the USA. He coordinates the Human Engineering research group at the UMinho, and his research interests are in the domain of Safety, Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics.
Dr. Arezes is also the current National Director of the MIT Portugal Program, a government strategic partnership between Portuguese Universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and partners from industry and government. He was the supervisor of more than 70 MSc. theses?at several universities,11 completed PhD theses, and?the host supervisor of some post-doc projects with colleagues coming from different countries, such as Brazil, Poland, and Turkey. He is the (co-)author of more than 50 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals, author/editor of more than 40 books published internationally, as well as the (co-)author of more than 250 papers published in international conference proceedings with peer-review.