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Team Cognition for Coordinated Decision-Making during Hurricane Harvey: A Case Study from Interviews with Responding Commanders
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
To protect and assist threatened populations and infrastructures in response to natural and man- made disasters, emergency responders from diverse backgrounds collectively work as ad hoc teams. However, responders’ coordinated ...
Relationship between operator situation awareness and physiological states during complex and critical offshore well control scenarios
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Incident reviews of oil spill events (both large and small) suggest that human error, or more appropriately “systems error”, is a contributor to 50% of well control incidents (primarily kicks). The purpose of this study ...
Symbol Designs And Signal Words: Importance In Hazard Statements For Procedures
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Signal words and symbols are often used in hazard statements for procedures to convey safety information to workers. However, little is known about effective display methods for this domain. Two studies were performed, one ...
Analyzing Procedure Performance using Abstraction Hierarchy: Implications of Designing Procedures for High-risk Process Operations
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2019)
Standard operating procedures (SOPs) are a vital element of everyday operations in chemical process industries. Incident investigations also indicate that a majority of adverse events in the processing operations are ...
Fatigue monitoring in offshore energy operations: Research to Practice gaps
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2016)
The oil and gas extraction (OGE) industry continues to experience an elevated fatality rate; from 2010-2014 fatality the rate in this industry was nearly seven times higher than that for all U.S. workers. OGE workers are ...
Conceptualizing Multiagency Emergency Management System as Joint Cognitive System
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Emergency management system (EMS) provides a crucial barrier for the protection of socio-ecological infrastructure from man-made disasters and natural threats. To meet diverse demands from hazardous events, resilience ...
Procedural Performance: Possible Costs of Time Pressure, Shift Change, and Task Complexity
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2018)
Procedural tasks, which typically involve performing a sequence of steps in a regular and consistent manner, are an inherent part of almost all high-risk industrial settings. Further, it is not uncommon for a need to arrive ...
Development of an Effective Procedure Writer’s Guide using a Human Factors and Regulatory Compliance Approach
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2015)
Well-written procedures are an integral part of any industrial organization for safe operation, managing risks, and continuous improvement. Regulatory bodies around the world require industries to have current, accurate, ...