Chemical Processing and Offshore Oil Industries
Project
Experience
Procedures
and Quality Assurance System
Permit
to Work
Human Factors and Safety Analysis in the Chemical Industry
Human Factors and Safety Analysis in the Offshore Industry
Specialist Training
User Specification & Development
Procedures
and Quality Assurance Systems
Allied
Colloids
- Assessment of operating procedure provision and development of a procedures
design manual with an associated two-day course in procedure design.
American
Cyanamid (USA)
- Review of quality assurance programme in an Olefines Intermediate Plant.
Blue
Circle Cement
- Application of a Systematic Critical Human Error Management Approach
(SCHEMA) to the development of standard operating procedures for X-ray
fluorescence testing.
Hampshire
Chemicals
- Development of emergency operating procedures.
Laporte
(Interox) Chemical Ltd
- Application of a systematic human error auditing technique to the development
of operating procedures in a batch chemical plant.
Shell
Exploration and Production
- Application of the Procedures and Competency Development Methodology
(PCDM) to a Natural gas plant.
Shell
Chemicals and Oils
- Development of an audit tool to evaluate procedures and operating instructions.
- Assessment of quality of operators' instructions and procedures at a
refinery.
- Application of the Procedures and Competency Development Methodology
(PCDM) to all operating units at a refinery.
- Development of a user-driven design methodology for operating instructions
and procedures.
Health
and Safety Executive
- Human reliability assessment of a chlorine handling operation.
Shell
Chemicals and Oils
- Human factors study of furnace operations at an oil refinery.
- Development of an emergency response system for an oil refinery.
- Management consultancy to define organisational responsibilities and
accountabilities at a refinery.
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Permit
to Work
Courtaulds
- Evaluation of existing Permit to Work Systems and development of new
approaches.
Shell
Chemicals and Oils
- Analysis of Permit to Work Systems.
Health
and Safety Executive
- Development of a handbook for Permit to Work Systems for small and medium
sized companies.
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Human
Factors and Safety Analysis in the Chemical Industry
Acordis
Safety audit and subsequent training course covering
the areas of:
- Human factors in safety management as demonstrated in their COMAH submission.
- Methods used for reporting and investigating incidents, and their effectiveness
in addressing human factors.
Davy
McKee
- Human factors analysis of a computerised process control system and
development of generic human factors design guidelines.
Exxon
Production Research Company (USA)
- Development of a practical systems-based approach to optimise human
performance in upstream chemical operations.
Esso
Exploration and Production
- Development of a methodology to identify critical human interactions
with plants.
Exxon
Chemical
- Practical application of the technique developed for Exxon Research
(see above) to various chemical process operations.
Imperial
Chemical Industries (Organics Division)
- Analysis of operator workload and error rates in chemical plant control.
Warren
Spring Laboratory
- Assessment of design factors affecting mental workload in process plants.
Neste
Oy and Kemira Oy (Finland)
- Application of the Systematic Critical Human Error Management Approach
(SCHEMA) to a case study of a chemical plant operation.
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Human
Factors and Safety Analysis in the Offshore Industry
Conoco
- Human Factors assessment of an offshore control centre.
- Safety analysis of satellite wire-lining operations.
Statoil
(Norway)
- Safety assessment of the launch of a free fall lifeboat.
Health
and Safety Executive
- Human reliability assessment of a chlorine handling operation.
- Development of a methodology to assess human factors in offshore safety
cases (Offshore Safety Directorate)
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Specialist
Training
Imperial
Chemical Industries (Polyester Division)
- Development of training and job aid support to allow improved handling
of process disturbances.
TNO
(Holland)
- Provision of a one-week course in human reliability analysis techniques.
Petroleos
de Venezuela (Venezuela)
- Provision of a two-week human reliability technology transfer course.
Center
for Chemical Process Safety (USA)
- Preparation of handbook for improving human performance in chemical
process safety.
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User
Specification and Development
Imperial
Chemical Industries (Fibres Division)
- Design of user specification for computer based process management systems.
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