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 SAFETYHow 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 BiasesThis paper proposes a combined approach of discussing the cognitive psychology behind System 1 and System 2 thinking, the types of heuristic
WHITEPAPERSImproving Human Factors Review in PHA and LOPAHaving a working knowledge of these five tools will improve a PHA‐LOPA facilitator’s awareness and ability to better evaluate human error re
WHITEPAPERSAccounting for Emergent Failure Paths in LOPAApplication of one such system technique known as “NET-HARMS” (Networked Hazard Analysis and Risk Management System). The NET-HARMS techniqu
PROCESS SAFETYThe 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 analysisFront-line workers are often blamed for 80 to 90 percent of industrial accidents. Yet one famous engineering psychologist puts the figure cl