Naj Meshkati
Expert in workplace safety. Can comment on Iran's ongoing nuclear developments.
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Contact at: (213) 740-8765 or meshkati@usc.edu
Expertise:
- technology transfer to developing countries
- human mental workload, information processing and occupational stress
- human factors in organizational design and management
- ergonomics -- the study of how to adapt machines to people
- cumulative trauma disorders (CTD) and repetitive motion injuries (RMI)
- the design and evaluation of technological systems for human use
- the safety of large-scale technological systems (e.g., nuclear power plants, chemical plants and refineries)
- human and organizational error
- industrial accidents
- aviation safety and runway incursions
- safety culture
- transportation safety
- process safety management of petrochemical plants
- accidents
- Chernobyl and Three Mile Island
- safety and regulatory issues
- the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in international nuclear safety
- electrical industry deregulation
- work overload and human error
- workplace safety management
- Co-editor of Human Mental Workload
- Fellow, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- Recipient, Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation (1989)
- Established the International Technology Transfer Group (1985)
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Biographical information can be found at:
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~meshkati/
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