Human Factors and Health and Safety in Offshore Oil Operations: Relationships and Management Options

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Shrimpton ◽  
Keith Storey
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Offshore Oil

Designing a Human Factors Investigation Tool to Improve the Quality of Safety Reporting

2001 ◽  
Vol 45 (20) ◽  
pp. 1519-1523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Gordon ◽  
Rhona Flin ◽  
Kathryn Mearns
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Error Recovery ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Safety Reporting ◽  
Offshore Oil Industry ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Organisational Factors ◽  
Offshore Oil

Engineers in the UK offshore oil industry endeavour to analyse the causes of accidents with regard to the human and organisational factors. However, their expertise tends to lie in the analysis of the technical failures. In an attempt to improve the investigation of the human factors causes of accidents, a human factors investigation system was developed for the UK Health and Safety Executive and five oil companies. The development and evaluation of two previous reporting systems provides the background to this current study, where both systems were found to increase the quantity of human factors information collected. The Human Factors Investigation Tool (HFIT) improves on these two systems, where it collects four types of human factors information including (i) the observable errors occurring immediately prior to the incident, (ii) the error recovery process, (iii) the information processing stage at which the error occurred and (iv) the underlying causes.

scholarly journals A human factors engineering approach to a universal labeling system for communicating the risks of hazardous drugs

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlyn Singam
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Human Factors Engineering ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Incidental Exposure ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Hazardous Drugs ◽  
Labeling System ◽  
Similar Risk

Federal law defines hazardous chemicals as any chemical that poses a physical or health hazard. A burgeoning segment of the modern arsenal of medications pose a similar risk. Cytotoxic and genotoxic medications are commonly cited examples of what this author classifies as hazardous drugs. However, due to the ambiguity or outright absence of textual warning labels on these medications, individuals who suffer incidental exposure in preparation, handling, administration and disposal of the drug may be compromising their health and safety. The risk posed by hazardous drugs is not limited to those within the healthcare community either, due to the large number of individuals who handle hazardous drugs during the process of manufacturing, transport, administration, and disposal. The author proposes a simple, clear label by which all individuals who come in contact with hazardous drugs – regardless of background – can readily distinguish between hazardous and non-hazardous drugs. The implementation of the labeling system proposed herein has the potential to increase awareness of handling risks for hazardous drugs, thereby improving health, safety, and the environment.

The human factor in forest operations: Engineering for health and safety

2008 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-542
Author(s):  
Jeremy Rickards
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Human Factors Engineering ◽  
Forest Operations ◽  
Workplace Issues ◽  
Harvesting Systems ◽  
Unique Source ◽  
Forest Engineering

Human Factors Engineering is an interdisciplinary science concerned with the effect of work on the human body and its relationship to the workplace. Since the 1970s, UNB – Forest Engineering has been a major contributor to teaching and research in this discipline, and in its application to forest operations. Rapid advances in mechanized tree-harvesting systems resulted in significant new workplace issues for operator health, safety, and machine design. Researchers responded by creating a CSA standard, working cooperatively with FERIC, CPPA and more recently the CWF, and founding the International Journal of Forest Engineering, which is a unique source for research results and developments in this discipline. Future research will involve multi-national teams of Human Factors Engineers, supported by related disciplines in healthcare and engineering. Key words: human factors, forest engineering, workplace health, workplace safety, mechanized forest operations

scholarly journals Health and safety in the offshore oil and gas industry

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (65) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Author(s):  
Liz Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
Offshore Oil ◽  
Safety And Environment

Since the 'Piper Alpha' disaster in 1988 the system of regulating occupational health and safety in the offshore oil and gas industry has been the subject of radical reorganization. During vacation employment in the Safety and Environment Department of a North Sea oil producer during 1993 the difficulties that can arise in identifying a particular regulation or in obtaining a specific document were experienced at first hand. Standard bibliographic tools do not identify sources of health and safety information specific to the industry and it was felt that further guidance would be beneficial.

Human Factors Problem Identification in Surface Mines

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-184
Author(s):  
Ernest Conway ◽  
Martin Helander ◽  
Mark Sanders ◽  
Gregory Krohn ◽  
James Peay
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Surface Mining ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Field Validation ◽  
Problem Identification ◽  
Candidate List ◽  
Surface Mines ◽  
Two Phases

The authors are involved in a project to identify and to assess the criticality of various human factors problems in the U. S. surface mining industry. This study will result in a series of recommendations for future research in this area. The effort has been organized into two phases; the development of a candidate list of known or suspected problems and the field validation and assessment of the problems. Because of limited project resources, it was necessary to develop a list of candidate human factors problems that would have widespread health and safety consequences to surface miners. This paper discusses the methodology used to develop this candidate list of human factors problems.

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