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    Demographic Change, Digitalisation and Complexity in the 2030s

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book addresses the future of work and industry by 2040—a core interest for many disciplines inspiring a strong momentum for employment and training within the industrial world. The future of industrial safety in terms of technological risk-management, although of obvious concern to international actors in various industries, has been quite sparsely addressed. This brief reflects ... Read more

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  • Safety Cultures, Safety Models

    Taking Stock and Moving Forward

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already travelled, their context, objectives and constraints. What link can be established between safety culture and safety models in order to increase safety within companies carrying ... Read more

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  • Public Participation in Governance of Industrial Safety Risks

    An Uneasy Journey

    Series series Mechanical Engineering (R0)
    This open access brief-in-two-volumes provides a global overview of the many ways in which today's safety management and governance of high-risk industries may be destabilized in an evolving and rapidly transforming world. Rather than focusing exclusively on the traditional perimeter of safety management and governance, it considers industrial safety within a wider societal, technological, (geo ... Read more

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  • The Shaken Foundations of Safety

    Overcoming Human Resources and Skills Shortages

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open-access brief offers routes to the solution of the threats to the safety performance of high-risk industries caused by skills challenges. It addresses the consequences of job transformationlinked to technological developments, digitalization, unfavourable demographics and the lack of attractiveness of some high-risk industrial sectors, today and in the near future.The first part of the ... Read more

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    Exploring Interrelations in Theory and Practice

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book explores the synergies and tensions between safety and security management from a variety of perspectives and by combining input from numerous disciplines. It defines the concepts of safety and security, and discusses the methodological, organizational and institutional implications that accompany approaching them as separate entities and combining them, respectively.The book ... Read more

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    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
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    Towards Smart Risk Governance and Safety Management

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two observations and bridging the gap between ... Read more

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    Uncertain Futures at the Periphery of Europe

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book offers a comparative overview on Portuguese emigration in Europe and outside the EU in times of recession. It looks at Portuguese emigrants who, after the crisis of 2008, moved both intra-EU, such as UK, France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain, but also into countries with historical links, such as the USA and Canada, and to Portuguese speaking countries such as Brazil, Angola ... Read more

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    Combined Aquaculture and Hydroponic Production Technologies for the Future

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
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  • Modern Mathematics Education for Engineering Curricula in Europe

    A Comparative Analysis of EU, Russia, Georgia and Armenia

    Series series Education (R0)
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    Embedding Safety in Professional Skills

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book investigates why, despite more and more resources devoted to safety training, expectations are not entirely met, particularly in the industrial sectors that have already achieved a high safety level. It not only reflects the most precious viewpoints of experts from different disciplines, different countries, with experiences in various ... Read more

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    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access book bridges the gap between playing with robots in school and studying robotics at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels to prepare for careers in industry and research. Robotic algorithms are presented formally, but using only mathematics known by high-school and first-year college students, such as calculus, matrices and probability. Concepts and algorithms are explained ... Read more

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