ArticlesSystemness Thinking Allows Safer DesignsaeSolutions demonstrates how people can close safety gaps and practice safety methods in CONTROL Magazine. "There are many new and...
WhitepapersDoes Your Facility Have the Flu? Use Bayes Rule to Treat the Problem Instead of the SymptomIs our industry addressing the problems facing it today? We idealize infinitesimally small event rates for highly catastrophic hazards,...
Process Safety BlogsHow to Design for Effective Situation Awareness and Operator Response to Abnormal SituationsKahneman has written about fast and unconscious thinking (a.k.a. system 1), versus conscious and slow thinking (a.k.a. system 2). We use...
WhitepapersDesigning Operator Tasks to Minimize the Impact of Heuristics and Biasesby Dave Grattan Often times when a person is blamed for “not thinking,” the reality is they were thinking, but were not aware of it. This...
WhitepapersAccounting for Emergent Failure Paths in LOPAby Dave Grattan, P.E., CFSE One of the fundamental assumptions made when using standard LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis) is that the...
Process Safety BlogsThe top 5 reasons why people don’t want to evaluate human factors & barrier reliability… but shouldby Dave Grattan The concept of barriers as discrete layers consisting of administrative controls, alarms, instruments, mechanical...
Accounting for human factors in layer of protection analysisby Dave Grattan Is it better to be lucky or good? In Process Safety we need both. Lucky in this context does not mean haphazard. It means...
