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[http://www.spe.org/news/article/human-factors-are-integral-to-project-design Human Factors Are Integral to Project Design] by Adam Wilson
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DiFiore, Amanda. "Human Factors in Automation."&nbsp;: <span style="line-height: 18.9090900421143px;">Web Events</span>. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 22 Sept. 2015. Web. [https://webevents.spe.org/products/human-factors-in-automation https://webevents.spe.org/products/human-factors-in-automation].
DiFiore, Amanda. 2015 "Human Factors in Automation."&nbsp;: <span style="line-height: 18.9090900421143px;">Web Events</span>. Society of Petroleum Engineers.&nbsp;[https://webevents.spe.org/products/human-factors-in-automation https://webevents.spe.org/products/human-factors-in-automation].
 
Grossweiler, Philip. 2015. &nbsp;"Human Factors / Crew Resource Management: Perspectives for Inputs to Risk Management Framework." Web Events. Society of Petroleum Engineers.&nbsp;https://webevents.spe.org/products/human-factors-crew-resource-management-perspectives-for-inputs-to-risk-management-framework.


== See also ==
== See also ==

Revision as of 16:12, 15 July 2015

In July 2012, SPE held a two-day summit on human factors to create a common understanding of the strategic challenges for the oil and gas E&P industry, to identify what is known and unknown in the field, and to explore possible actions to accomplish the needed change indicated by the U.S. National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling report. Attendees created a technical report based on the discussions and conclusions at the summit as a guideline on the human factors risks in E&P operations and what can be done to reduce those risks and increase safety.

Conclusions

Members of the summit decided that the industry must move to an organizational culture in which process safety is as well managed as personal safety. The committee drew the following conclusions and included them in the The Human Factor: Process Safety and Culture technical report:

Leadership

Leadership is critical to a process safety culture. The decisions, actions, and statements made by leaders, the reward and incentive structures that leaders implement, the way leaders behave and interact with people throughout the organization, and the decisions and actions they take to balance safety against commercial imperatives, directly determine the attitude to safety within an organization.

Experiences

More attention needs to be given to the experiences of other industries (like aviation, nuclear, and chemical processing) and how the solutions they developed to limit human factors risk can be adapted for the E&P industry.

Regulatory approaches

The common regulatory approach of rules and audits for compliance provides no incentives for organizations to go beyond minimal compliance. Regulatory approaches should encourage organizations to continually assess safety performance and to be chronically dissatisfied.

Terminology

The extensive use of contractor services and partnerships adds a critical industry-wide component to addressing process safety in the E&P industry. This creates a need for a common definition of competency requirements, particularly in nontechnical skills, and a common terminology in operational integrity/process safety.

Training

Operational Control of Work offers a framework for formalizing workflows, communication protocols, decision-making rights, competencies and training programs that can address challenges inherent in remote, distributed teams.

Biases

The extensive research into the psychology of how irrationality and cognitive bias lead to poor risk assessment and decision-making and the practical solutions to counter these biases should be used more extensively to improve training of people involved in safety-critical operations in the E&P industry.

Integration

Integrating human factors into IT development is critical. Significant potential exists for human-factors-optimized IT systems to make a larger contribution to eliminating or containing the chains of human errors that are usually behind major process control events.

Read the entire contents of The Human Factor: Process Safety and Culture.

Noteworthy papers in OnePetro

Chaudhury, G. and Whooley, A. 2014. Art, Science, and Engineering of Managing Offshore Field Development Economics and Risks. Presented at the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 5-8 May. OTC-25344-MS. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.4043/25344-MS.

Committee, T. R. 2014. The Human Factor: Process Safety and Culture. Society of Petroleum Engineers. SPE-170575-TR. https://www.onepetro.org/general/SPE-170575-TR.

Poblete, B. R., Parker, C. W., Ranasinghe, S., and Gandhi, M. 2014. Human Factors in Hazard Analysis. Presented at the Offshore Technology Conference. Houston, 5-8 May. OTC-25280-MS. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.4043/25280-MS.

Pray, J., McSweeney, K. P., & Parker, C. W. 2014. Implementing Human Factors Engineering in Offshore Installation Design. Presented at the Offshore Technology Conference. 5-8 May. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.4043/25167-MS.

Online multimedia

SPE. 2014. The Human Factor: Process Safety and Culture. Webinar. http://eo2.commpartners.com/users/spe/session.php?id=13182

Skompski, Ed. 2013. The Impact of Administrative Controls and Management Enforcement on Human Performance. http://eo2.commpartners.com/users/spe/session.php?id=10380

Thorogood, John, and Patrick Hudson. 2011. Accidents, Incidents and the Human Factor/Decision-Making in the Oilfield. http://eo2.commpartners.com/users/spe/session.php?id=7098

Thorogood, John. 2014. Human Factors in Drilling: Are there practical tools for use at the wellsite? http://eo2.commpartners.com/users/spe/session.php?id=14420#

External links

Human Factors Are Integral to Project Design by Adam Wilson

DiFiore, Amanda. 2015 "Human Factors in Automation." : Web Events. Society of Petroleum Engineers. https://webevents.spe.org/products/human-factors-in-automation.

Grossweiler, Philip. 2015.  "Human Factors / Crew Resource Management: Perspectives for Inputs to Risk Management Framework." Web Events. Society of Petroleum Engineers. https://webevents.spe.org/products/human-factors-crew-resource-management-perspectives-for-inputs-to-risk-management-framework.

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