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Systemness Thinking Allows Safer Designs

aeSolutions demonstrates how people can close safety gaps and practice safety methods in CONTROL Magazine. "There are many new and...

Does Your Facility Have the Flu? Use Bayes Rule to Treat the Problem Instead of the Symptom

Is our industry addressing the problems facing it today? We idealize infinitesimally small event rates for highly catastrophic hazards,...

How to Design for Effective Situation Awareness and Operator Response to Abnormal Situations

Kahneman has written about fast and unconscious thinking (a.k.a. system 1), versus conscious and slow thinking (a.k.a. system 2). We use...

Designing Operator Tasks to Minimize the Impact of Heuristics and Biases

This paper proposes a combined approach of discussing the cognitive psychology behind System 1 and System 2 thinking, the types of heuristic

Improving Human Factors Review in PHA and LOPA

Having a working knowledge of these five tools will improve a PHA‐LOPA facilitator’s awareness and ability to better evaluate human error re

Accounting for Emergent Failure Paths in LOPA

Application of one such system technique known as “NET-HARMS” (Networked Hazard Analysis and Risk Management System). The NET-HARMS techniqu

The top 5 reasons why people don’t want to evaluate human factors & barrier reliability… but should

by Dave Grattan The concept of barriers as discrete layers consisting of administrative controls, alarms, instruments, mechanical...

Accounting for human factors in layer of protection analysis

Front-line workers are often blamed for 80 to 90 percent of industrial accidents. Yet one famous engineering psychologist puts the figure cl