Sale!

Designing for Human Reliability: Human Factors Engineering in the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries

Amazon.com Price:  $13.99 (as of 12/05/2019 17:24 PST- Details)

Description

Industry underestimates the extent to which behaviour at work is influenced by the design of the working environment. Designing for Human Reliability argues that greater awareness of the contribution of design to human error can significantly make stronger HSE performance and support return on investment. Illustrated with many examples, Designing for Human Reliability explores why work systems are designed and implemented such that “design-induced human error” becomes more-or-less inevitable. McLeod demonstrates how well understood psychological processes can lead people to make decisions and to take actions that in a different way seem inconceivable to be mindful. Designing for Human Reliability sets out thirteen key elements to deliver the levels of human reliability expected to reach the return on investment sought when decisions are made to invest in projects. And it demonstrates how investigation of the human contribution to incidents can also be improved by specializing in what companies expected and intended when they chose to rely on human performance as a barrier, or keep watch over, against incidents.

  • Recognise some ‘hard truths’ of human performance and learn about the importance of applying the principles of Human Factors Engineering on capital projects
  • Learn from analysis of real-world incidents how differences between ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ styles of thinking can lead to human error in industrial processes
  • Learn how controls and barrier against major incidents that rely on human performance can also be strengthened right through the design and development of assets and equipment
Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Engineering and Transportation » Engineering » Energy Production and Extraction » Fossil Fuels » Petroleum » Designing for Human Reliability: Human Factors Engineering in the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries

Recent Products