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Systematic Workforce Involvement In Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Workforce involvement is an essential element of effective process safety management. This paper will describe proven methods of workforce...

A Framework for Human Error Analysis of Emergency Situations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Human factors play an important role in the escape, evacuation and rescue process. Human factors analysis is rooted in the concept that the frequency...

A Key Factor In Hazardous Processes: Safety Culture

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
The significance of Safety Culture is becoming increasingly recognized as a key factor to achieve the safe operation of hazardous processes. This...

An Integrated Toolkit for Addressing Human Factors Issues in Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
This paper describes an integrated toolset, called the Human Factors Workbench, which addresses the proactive and reactive control of human error in...

How to Evaluate Process Safety Culture

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
At first glance it may seem that organizational culture is subjective and therefore difficult to measure. Indeed, even the definition of culture...

Assessment of Human Elements to Avoid Accidents and Failures In Task Perform, Cognitive and Intuitive Schemes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Analysis of the activity of the operator in the task of the industry requires the establishment of definitions regarding the Human Reliability,...

Human Performance Training

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
Operator competency has been a major challenge for the petrochemical and refining industry for decades. In recent times, human factors are believed...

Elements of Human Factors Missing from Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Process safety is about controlling risk of failures and errors; controlling risk is primarily about reducing the risk of human error. All elements...

Inherent Safety In Front End Engineering

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
The best time to apply the principles of inherent safety is during the early stages of a design. In particular it is at the early stages that the ?...

Inherently Safer Design – Not Only about Reducing Consequences!

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Process risk is a function of both the likelihood of occurance of an incident, and of the consequences of the incident. There is a common perception...

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