A Practical Approach to Improving Human Factors in the Operation and Maintenance of Automation Systems Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2019Case studies included in Guidelines for Safe Automation of Chemical Processes (2016) provide examples of how errors by operators and maintenance...
Everything You Need to Know about Human Reliability for Process Safety Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2019Weak control of human factors leads directly to error. An error can result in an initiating event of an accident sequence (directly by the mistake...
Enhancing Behavior-Based Safety Culture through Casual Safety Observations Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2019Despite the influx of automated systems in the chemical manufacturing plant, human factors continue to play a pivotal role in the day-to-day...
Sil-3, Sil-2, and Unicorns (There Is a High Probability Your SIL 2 and SIL 3 SIFs Have No Better Performance Than SIL 1) Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2019Safety Instrumented System (SIS) standards improved the definition of interlocks and introduced requirements for improved management systems to...
Human Factors - What Role Should They Play in Risk Assessment and How Should They be Handled Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2019A risk assessment is just the assessment of the risk inherent to a process or piece of equipment, correct? At this stage why should I consider any...
Accounting for Emergent Failure Paths in LOPA Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2019One of the fundamental assumptions made when using standard LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis) is that the barriers selected for a common threat...
Set Your Operators up for Success: Practical Guidelines for Addressing Human Factors in PHA Causes and Protection Layers Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2019Everyone makes mistakes. Therefore, every Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) should address the potential for human error when people interact with a...
Best Practices for Addressing Human Factors during PHAs/HAZOPs Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2019Accidents and regulations underscore the need for companies to identify potential human errors and to reduce the frequency and consequences of such...
Humans Make Mistakes...Which Cause Events Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2019When reviewing investigations reports associated with Loss of Primary Containment (LOPC) events, it is not uncommon to find human error identified as...
Getting Incident Investigations Right Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2019When safety investigations are conducted like criminal investigations, they tend to be backward-looking and focused on learning who to blame, rather...
Approach of Human Factors in Risk Analysis and Operational Procedures: Stress Level Analysis of Operators in Performing Tasks Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 1, 2019Process risk analyzes generally address operational aspects in their entirety. Human factors are commonly found as root causes of major accidents,...
Symposia Co-Chair Invites You to 21st Process Plant Safety Symposium (PPSS) March 4, 2019Symposia Co-Chair Jerry Forest fills us in on Process Plant Safety Symposium topics at this year's CCPS conference. #GCPS
Lessons for Chemical Engineers from the Loss of Space Shuttle Columbia Archived Webinar Jul 29, 2009 This presentation will link the loss of the Columbia to the 2005 explosion which killed 15 and injured 180, and highlight six key actions useful to prevent chemical accidents, protect the integrity...
Medicion De La Efectividad DEL SIS EN Campo ¿Concuerda CON Las Suposiciones DEL Analisis De Riesgo? Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 24, 2018El desempeño de los Sistemas Instrumentados de Seguridad (SIS), una vez instalados y operando, debería concordar con lo asumido durante...
Case Studies and Lessons from Process Safety Culture Improvement Initiatives Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 23, 2018
Don’t Walk the Line – Dance It! Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 23, 2018An 86% reduction in Tier 1 and Tier 2 loss of primary containment incidents has been realized in the five years following the introduction of Walk...
Symposia Chair Invites You to 33rd Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) International Conference April 13, 2018Symposia Chair Donald Connolley fills us in on CFA session topics at this year's CCPS conference. #GCPS
Improving Human Factors Review in PHA and LOPA Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 29, 2017Human Reliability practitioners utilize a variety of tools in their work that could improve the facilitation of PHA-LOPA related to identifying and...
“Closing the Holes in the Swiss Cheese Model” – Maximizing the Reliability of Operator Response to Alarms Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 29, 2017Layers of protection for abnormal event management can be modeled as barriers of swiss cheese according to James Reason. An operatorâ...
Human Reliability Analysis for Evaluation of Conduct of Operations and Training Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 28, 2017Human Reliability Analysis for Evaluation of Conduct of Operations and Training Erin P. Collins and Bijan Najafi JENSEN HUGHES Risk assessment and...
Functional Safety Assessments of Safety Controls, Alarms, and Interlocks: How Efficient Are Your Functional Safety Projects? Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 28, 2017A execução e retorno de investimento em projetos de Intertravamentos, Alarmes e Controles de Segurança (do termo em inglês safety controls, alarms,...
Cost-Effective Human Factors Tools to Reduce Plant Costs and the Risk of Injuries Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 27, 2017Human Factors is defined as the âsystematic process of designing for human useâ. This process systematically...
Recipe for a Complete Process Hazard Analysis – Especially Addressing the Key Demands from US CSB Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 27, 2017Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) is not a new topic. Surprising, more that 80% of PHAs performed today do not comply with the current interpretations by...
The Change Accelerator: Integrating Operability and Reliability into Your Culture Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 13, 2016Abstract Outline The call to action: Investing in systems and structures to improve reliability will not be effective without engaging the...
Conducting a Human Reliability Assessment to Support PHA and LOPA Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 13, 2016PHA and LOPA facilitators may struggle with Human Factors and Administrative controls in their team sessions for a variety of reasons. These could...
Human Reliability and Process Safety Metrics: Considerations from an Abnormal Situation Management Perspective Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 12, 2016The ASM Consortium conducted a series of studies investigating the role of operations practice failures in major process safety incidents. The...
40 Years of Worst Practices - Don't Do This! Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016ABSTRACT Having worked in the chemical and PSM industries since 1976, on this, the 40 th anniversary, I'd like to share with you some of the worst...
Human Factors and Their Impact on Plant Safety Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016History is full of technology breakthroughs, all striving to increase productivity and efficiency, from the steam engine and the telegraph; we’...
Culture, Competence and Compliance Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Atlantic LNG is one of the world’s largest producers of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). From our base in Trinidad, we operate a four-train...
How to Design Human Factors into a PSM System to Ensure Effectiveness and Deliver Risk Reduction Performance Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Description This paper will present a practical application of a design process for developing and implementing effective process safety management (...
Advanced Procedures: Leveraging a Human Factors Approach for Improving Process Safety Performance Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Procedures form an important part of the industry 's operational architecture and are part of the system to ensure that prescribed methods are...
A Rank Order Methodology for Assessing HFE Construction Audit Non-Conformances Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016The construction product in the petrochemical industry has an increasing trend toward large scale operations with greater complexity that are...
"Why All This Talk about Failure? What Happens If We Succeed?" Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016As engineers, we are trained to succeed—the right process design, the right application strategy, and the right diagnostic test. Of necessity,...
Human Factors Considerations: Midstream Process Safety Integration Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 28, 2015Midstream oil and gas companies are coming into their own. For example, according to Deloitte (2014), “Midstream energy companies’ share of overall...
Changing Demographics: Preserving Safety and Increasing Performance Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 28, 2015While process plants under development hold promise for innovative technology, movement from analogue to digital control rooms, and the latest in...
Is It Possible to Be Ethical and Still Look Out for Your Company's Best Interest? Conference PresentationSouthwest Process Technology ConferenceOctober 9, 2014We all like to think of ourselves as ethical individuals and there is a common belief that if we act ethically this will be in our company’s best...
Tutorial on Auto-Refrigeration and Brittle Fracture Analysis (Part 2) Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2014The tutorial is aimed at entry level to seasoned veteran engineers that desire to have a better understanding of this multidiscipline process safety...
A Leader's Tactical Approach to Influence Changes in Process Safety Culture Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2014Following the Texas City disaster and the subsequent publishing of “Failure to Learn”, many companies were awakened to the idea that their top...
What Should Leaders be Held Accountable for When It Comes to PSM Performance? Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2014What should leaders be held accountable for when it comes to PSM Performance? Accountability is much easier to describe than to create or instill...
Risk Assessment Challenges to 20:20 Vision Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 1, 2014A wide variety of hazard identification and risk analysis techniques are available. All techniques require knowledge in the fundamentals of the...
Human Performance Improvement Going Beyond Human Factors Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 31, 2014Today, chemical, petrochemical, and refining processes are better understood than ever. In addition, maintenance inspections and tests, and...
The Art, Science and Psychology of Improving Human Performance Using a New Collaborative Based Learning Model For Process Safety Management Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 31, 2014Human Factors is a broad subject aimed at improving Human Performance. While several organizations have developed ways of structuring this topic,...
Tools to Managerial Control to Mitigate the Dynamic Risk, and Effect of Crisis Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMay 1, 2013INTRODUCTION In the scenario where limited natural resources result in reductions in industrial growth it is necessary to revise criteria in Risk...
Reflexes filosficas e sociais sobre a operao de complexos qumicos industriais Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMay 1, 2013The philosophical and social issues in the operation of chemical complexes Abstract In the Management of Process Safety Based on Risk, the technology...
Promoting Commitment to Process Safety Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 30, 2013Successful implementation of process safety management (PSM) typically requires the use of a combination of physical and procedural safeguards...
Implementing LOPA Recommendations Into Design of Instrumented Protective Systems Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 30, 2013The inherent process risk is reduced to a tolerable level by implementing Protective Functions. Each organization has to define the tolerable risk...
Process Safety Management Framework in Japan Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2013In recent years, accidents of chemical plants are occurring frequently in Japan. One of the reasons is that many Japanese companies do not have a...
Characteristics of Companies with Great Process Safety Performance Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2013CCPS’s Vision 2020 describes the characteristics of companies with great process safety performance in the future. This work is extremely important...
International Comparison on the Application of Societal Risk Criteria Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 4, 2012Quantitative risk assessment is now a common tool used for planning and approval of high risk process facilities globally. The initial focus was...
Two Incompetent Workers; Too Close for Comfort ñ Part 1 Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 4, 2012Learning from experience is one of the four pillars of Risk-Based Process Safety. Incidents that occur at one facility often provide opportunities to...
Taking a Risk for Safety Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 3, 2012Taking a Risk for Safety Over the last twenty years companies in the process industries have invested heavily in their occupational safety programs...
Using Alarms As a Layer of Protection Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 3, 2012Alarms and operator response are one of the first layers of protection in preventing a plant upset from escalating into a hazardous event. This...
PSM ? Process Safety Leadership: Practical Actions That Set PS Leadership Apart Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 3, 2012PSM ≠ Process Safety Leadership : Practical actions that set PS Leadership apart It is well known in business improvement circles that good...
Human Factors and Their Optimization Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2012Weak control of human factors leads directly to error. An error can result in an initiating event of an accident sequence (directly by the mistake...
Social HAZOP At Oil Refine Industry Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2012Introduction Maintenance of process safety in the industry several tools are used such as Risk Analysis, Failure mode and events Analysis (FMEA), a...
ìWell the Team Has Met and Completed the PHAÖ.Now What?î Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2012Learning from the experiences and expertise of others has long been recognized as a valued process when completing PHAs. The gathering of a multi-...
PSM Metrics Impact on Process Safety Culture Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 15, 2011Several years ago our facility recognized the need to expand from a PSM Program managed by a small group to a PSM Culture owned by the full facility...
It's People, Stupid! Human Factors In Incident Investigation Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 14, 2011People have inherent strengths and weaknesses which can affect their performance. Issues such as fatigue, emotional stress, and motivation can...
Strong Reporting Culture as Stepping Stone to Continuously Drive Safety Performance Improvement Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 14, 2011This session will review the leading indicator research findings drawn from analyzing a large Energy and Chemicals industry data set. The source of...
A Key Factor In Hazardous Processes: Safety Culture Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 14, 2011The significance of Safety Culture is becoming increasingly recognized as a key factor to achieve the safe operation of hazardous processes. This...
Improving Process Safety Culture: An Audit Checklist for Effective First Line Supervision Based on Common Operations Failure Modes Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 14, 2011The Abnormal Situation Management® Consortium funded a study to investigate common failure modes and root causes associated with operations practices...
LOPA – Validating Human IPLs and Ies Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 14, 2011Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) is a simplified risk assessment method that provides an order of magnitude estimate of the risk of a potential...
Evaluating Human Response to an Alarm for LOPA or Safety Studies Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 23, 2010Many LOPA scenarios have an independent protection layer (IPL) credit for operator intervention to prevent or mitigate the scenario. It is often...
An Integrated Toolkit for Addressing Human Factors Issues in Process Safety Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 23, 2010This paper describes an integrated toolset, called the Human Factors Workbench, which addresses the proactive and reactive control of human error in...
Near-Miss Management to Develop Dynamic Leading Indicators to Predict Incidents Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 23, 2010Recent studies have shown the importance of identifying near-misses to predict the probability of accidents (Meel and Seider, 2006) – and managing...
A Framework for Human Error Analysis of Emergency Situations Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 23, 2010Human factors play an important role in the escape, evacuation and rescue process. Human factors analysis is rooted in the concept that the frequency...
Modular Procedural Automation Addressing the Post Recession Skills Gap Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 23, 2010A procedural operation consists of a set of tasks that are conducted in a set way time-after-time to achieve a certain goal such as starting or...
Elements of Human Factors Missing from Process Safety Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 23, 2010Process safety is about controlling risk of failures and errors; controlling risk is primarily about reducing the risk of human error. All elements...
How to Evaluate Process Safety Culture Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 22, 2010At first glance it may seem that organizational culture is subjective and therefore difficult to measure. Indeed, even the definition of culture...
LOPA and Human Reliability – Human Errors and Human IPLs Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 21, 2010Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) is a simplified risk assessment method that provides an order of magnitude estimate of the risk of a potential...
Process Safety Metrics and Culture Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 28, 2009This session features presentations focusing on using the new CCPS Process Safety Metrics and other metrics to drive continual improvement in a...
Safety Culture and Operational Discipline Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 27, 2009This session focuses on the cultural aspects of a successful Process Safety program. Papers that are presented cover new and innovative ideas on...
Develop a Human Performance Modeling System for Process Safety Operations Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2012Develop a Human Performance Modeling System for Process Safety Operations Emrah Harputlu , Susan Murray, Ray A. Mentzer, and Sam Mannan Mary Kay O'...
Human Performance Training Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 13, 2011Operator competency has been a major challenge for the petrochemical and refining industry for decades. In recent times, human factors are believed...
Leadership Q&A: A CEO’s Role in Corporate Culture May2017Leadership Q&ATrinseo, a global chemical materials producer with 2016 revenues of $3.7 billion, was formed in 2010 from the sale of four business units of Dow Chemical. Formerly known as Styron, Trinseo has combined the assets and technologies of those businesses...
Human Factors Methods for Improving Performance in the Process Industries December, 2006Human Factors Methods for Improving Performance in the Process Industries provides guidance for managers and plant engineering staff on specific, practical techniques and tools for addressing forty different human factors issues impacting process safety. Human factors incidents can result in injury...
Guidelines for Preventing Human Error in Process Safety August, 2004Almost all the major accident investigations--Texas City, Piper Alpha, the Phillips 66 explosion, Feyzin, Mexico City--show human error as the principal cause, either in design, operations, maintenance, or the management of safety. This book provides practical advice that can substantially reduce...
Improve Safety by Improving Human Performance August2006SafetyDonald K. LorenzoFollow these guidelines to identify situations in which human errors are likely to occur and to correct potential problems early enough to avoid adverse consequences.
CEP: Process Safety Beacon - Overflow + Ignition = Tank Farm Fire (Part 2) October2009SafetyProcess Safety Beacon