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Key human factors issues
The following key human factors issues affect petroleum and allied industry operations:
- Organisational change (and transition management)
- Staffing arrangements and workload
- Training and competence (and supervision)
- Fatigue (from shiftwork and overtime)
- Human factors in design (including alarm handling, control rooms, ergonomics)
- Procedures
- Organisational culture (and development)
- Communications and interfaces
- Integration of human factors into risk assessment and investigations (including safety management systems)
- Managing human failure (including maintenance error)
Have you taken best account of these and similar issues?
The Human Factors Working Group has prepared a listing of these issues, with definitions, their consequences when not given due consideration, and introductory resources, practical tools and advanced resources that should assist users to secure regulatory compliance. Top Ten Human Factors Issues and Resources is freely available on line.
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