Session: Improving Human Performance

Humans make mistakes every day – it is in our nature. How do we learn from errors, understand behaviors, and design facilities and systems to minimize errors and their potential impact on process safety risk? Human performance permeates all aspects of risk based process safety, from operating procedures and conduct of operations to design and risk assessment decisions to process safety culture and leadership. This session is seeking papers which explore effective and emerging approaches to minimizing human error in the process industries, from design to decommissioning, and across all job functions. Preference will be given to submissions that translate human factors principles to practical application and share real-life implementation success stories of developing these systems and processes.