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den Hartog, E.A. (author), Koerhuis, C.L. (author)The focus of this study was to establish a relationship between physical discomfort and performance. Eleven healthy male subjects participated in this pilot study. The subjects performed a 2-h protocol without and with significant thermal and mechanical discomfort. Various cognitive tasks were executed repeatedly during the protocol to evaluate...article 2016
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Burggraaf, J. (author), Groeneweg, J. (author)Incident investigation and analysis are crucially important parts of the learning from incidents process. They are also highly complex tasks, especially analyzing information to relate "effects" to "causes." It requires the processing and judgment of vast amounts of information under often demanding circumstances like time pressure and lack of...conference paper 2016
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Coenen, P. (author), Mathiassen, S.E. (author), Kingma, I. (author), Boot, C.R.L. (author), Bongers, P.M. (author), van Dieën, J.H. (author)Objectives: Exposure-outcome studies, for instance on work-related low-back pain (LBP), often classify workers into groups for which exposures are estimated from measurements on a sample of workers within or outside the specific study. The present study investigated the influence on bias and power in exposure-outcome associations of the sizes of...article 2015
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Bogerd, C.P. (author), Aerts, J.M. (author), Annaheim, S. (author), Bröde, P. (author), de Bruyne, G. (author), Flouris, A.D. (author), Kuklane, K. (author), Sotto Mayor, T. (author), Rossi, R.M. (author)The thermal effects related to wearing headgear are complex and different studies have investigated single parts of this topic. This review aims at summarizing the different findings to give a complete overview on this topic as well as to suggest new perspectives. Headgear increases head insulation and therefore is mainly problematic under warm...article 2015
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Roda, C. (author), Bluyssen, P.M. (author), Mandin, C. (author), Fossati, S. (author), Carrer, P. (author), de Kluizenaar, Y. (author), Mihucz, V.G. (author), de Oliveira Fernandes, E. (author), Bartzis, J. (author)There is growing evidence that the psychosocial work environment may affect health (Marmot et al. 2006). Nevertheless, these factors are still not commonly taken into account in the studies examining the relations between indoor environmental quality and employee’s health and wellbeing. Several models of work stress have been developed in an...conference paper 2015
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Streefkerk, J.W. (author), Huijsman, W.P. (author), van Trijp, S.M.A. (author), Thönissen, F.H. (author)In reconnaissance operations, military observers are tasked to notice objects, people and events in their environment that may be relevant for their commander’s goals and objectives. Which ‘elements of information’ are noticed is influenced by how the operation assignment is presented (cf. the principle of priming). A distinction here is made...conference paper 2015
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Siegel, A.W. (author), Schraagen, J.M.C. (author)Analysis of accidents in socio-technical systems frequently reveals unnoticed obstacles, which have grown to become the main cause of incubation and surprise at failure (Dekker, 2011). Thus far, it has proven to be a challenge to identify those unnoticed obstacles upfront among the tremendous number of events occurring during normal operations....conference paper 2015
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Bluyssen, P.M. (author), Roda, C. (author), Mandin, C. (author), Fossati, S. (author), Carrer, P. (author), de Kluizenaar, Y. (author), Mihucz, V.G. (author), de Oliveira Fernandes, E. (author), Bartzis, J. (author)In the European research project OFFICAIR, a procedure was developed to determine associations between characteristics of European offices and health and comfort of office workers, through a checklist and a selfadministered questionnaire including environmental, physiological, psychological, and social aspects. This procedure was applied in 167...article 2015
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Siegel, A.W. (author), Schraagen, J.M.C. (author)OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONS This article describes an observational study at a rail control post to measure workload weak resilience signals. A weak resilience signal indicates a possible degradation of a system's resilience, which is defined as the ability of a complex socio-technical system to cope with unexpected and unforeseen disruptions. A...article 2014
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Coenen, P. (author), Formanoy, M. (author), Douwes, M. (author), Bosch, T. (author), de Kraker, H. (author)Exposure to mechanical vibrations at work (e.g., due to handling powered tools) is a potential occupational risk as it may cause upper extremity complaints. However, reliable and valid assessment methods for vibration exposure at work are lacking. Measuring hand-arm vibration objectively is often difficult and expensive, while often used...article 2014
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Jacobs, P. (author)De aanpak van het binnenklimaat bij scholen beperkt zich meestal tot ventilatie en temperatuurbeheersing. Fijnstof krijgt - onterecht - weinig aandacht. De concentratie PM10 fijnstof is juist in scholen bijzonder hoog, veel hoger zelfs dan buiten. De ramen open zetten voor'frisse lucht' is niet altijd verstandig. Met de frisse lucht komen...article 2014
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Verneau, M. (author), van der Kamp, J. (author), Savelsbergh, G.J.P. (author), de Looze, M.P. (author)The present investigation assessed the putative benefits of reducing instructions for older adults' learning of an assembly task. Young and older adults had to build a product by assembling six components. Two groups practiced following instruction methods that differed in the degree of explicit information they conveyed about the correct...article 2014
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Bronkhorst, A.W. (author), Post, W.M. (author), te Brake, G.M. (author)Currently, Human Factors does not just cover human performance and human centred design but also the evaluation and influencing of human behaviour in complex environments. In particular in the design of operations centres and control rooms, the functioning of humans and systems must be considered in an integrative manner, taking into account...conference paper 2014
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Risto, M. (author), Martens, M.H. (author)With specific headway instructions drivers are not able to attain the exact headways as instructed. In this study, the effects of discrete headway feedback (and the direction of headway adjustment) on headway accuracy for drivers carrying out time headway instructions were assessed experimentally. Two groups of each 10 participants (one...article 2014
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Streefkerk, J.W. (author), Neef, M. (author), Meesters, K. (author), Pieneman, R. (author), van Dongen, K. (author)In disaster recovery, responding professional organizations traditionally assess the needs of communities following a disaster. Recent disasters have shown that volunteer capacities within the community are not yet integrated in recovery activities. To improve the efficiency of responding professionals and utilize the potential capacity from...conference paper 2014
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Koningsveld, E. (author), de Looze, M.P. (author)Organizational ergonomics is concerned with the optimization of socio-technical systems, including their organizational structures, policies, and processes. Relevant topics include: communication, crew resource management, work design, work systems, design of working times, teamwork, participatory design, community ergonomics, cooperative work,...other 2014
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Nibbeling, N. (author), Oudejans, R.R.D. (author), Ubink, E.M. (author), Daanen, H.A.M. (author)Operational performance in military settings involves physical and mental skills that are generally investigated separately in lab settings, leading to reduced ecological validity. Therefore, we investigated the effects of anxiety and exercise-induced fatigue, separately and in combination, on cognitive and shooting performance of 22 soldiers in...article 2014
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