Human Factors Methods for Improving Performance in the Process Industries

Attwood, Dennis A.; Baybutt, Paul; Devlin, Chris; Fluharty, Walter; Hughes, G. M.; Isaacson, Dan; Joyner, Phil; Lee, Eugene; Lorenzo, Don; Morrison, Lisa; Ormsby, Bob

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“…Increasing employees' understanding of work safety will certainly really help companies reduce accidents caused by human factors. According to (Attwood et al, 2007), the benefits of increasing employee understanding of work safety, namely: 1) Fewer accidents. 2) Fewer near misses.…”

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Effect of Training, Job Stress, and Motivation on Work Productivity with Unsafe Actions as An Intervening Variable

Putra,

Badruzaman,

Supriadi

2024

RIA

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This research aims to test the direct and indirect influence between training, work stress, and motivation on work productivity with unsafe actions as an intervening variable. The study was conducted on employees of a Steam Power Plant contractor in Cirebon Regency. Sampling was carried out using a proportional start-up random sampling technique, with a total sample size of 152 samples, who were active employees at PT Cipta Anugrah Sejahtera and PT Star Plus. The research instrument used was a questionnaire with a Likert scale. The analysis technique used is path analysis using the SPSS version 27 application. The results of this study show that 1) Job stress, motivation and productivity variables are in the good category, while training and unsafe actions very good category. 2) Training has a negative and significant effect on unsafe actions. 3) Work stress has a positive and significant effect on unsafe actions. 4) Motivation has a negative and insignificant effect on unsafe actions. 4) Training, work stress and motivation simultaneously have a significant effect on unsafe acts. 5) Training, work stress, motivation and unsafe actions simultaneously has a significant effect on work productivity.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of Training, Job Stress, and Motivation on Work Productivity with Unsafe Actions as An Intervening Variable

Putra,

Badruzaman,

Supriadi

2024

RIA

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“…The CCPS 32 and API770 indicate that human performance factors can cause failure or accident 33 . These factors may be in the interface of equipment and tasks, in the intrinsic relationship with individuals or groups and in managerial characteristics.…”

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“…These cultural biases can promote Blame Culture or/and Just Culture diagnosed [26][27][28] by tools such as follows: Archetype Analysis 29 ; Executive Function Assessment 13 ; Cultural Risks with dynamic behavior 30 ; and Social Risk causing Social Conflicts and Accidents. 31 The CCPS 32 and API770 indicate that human performance factors can cause failure or accident. 33 These factors may be in the interface of equipment and tasks, in the intrinsic relationship with individuals or groups and in managerial characteristics.…”

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Organizational control for safety: A challenge in socioeconomic and natural environment

Ávila Filho

2023

Process Safety Progress

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The concepts and applications of cases in human factors (HFs), risk, reliability, and crisis, include the analysis of complex systems and difficult to predict sociotechnical systems. Rules and barriers are designed or revised to achieve better organizational efficiency results. The investigation then valuates the concepts such as the basis, the tests such as confirmation, the algorithms such as methods and tools, and the validation that indicates the certainty of achieving good results. The human elements (HE) are part of the design and can either disable or enable the flow of hazard energy. The intention is that these HEs inside the safety culture and technology design act as safeguards. The HE avoids design deficiencies, social and physical. HE can reduce load over the resistance capacity. The culture, social phenomenon, company project, management and staff, group and worker, operational control, failure control, and accident and disaster are classes of HF that transform hazard energy and need efficient HE barriers. The internal and external regulation after these discussions needs to revise its principles to correct processes of standardization and organizational communication, which would change the procedures for team building and the criteria for the technology project. An improvement program includes investigation of lessons learned and behavior treatment.

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“…Most input data for HRA methods are provided by Human Factor Methods (HFM) intended to describe human performance under actual operating conditions [30], [32], [35], [44]- [46]. The HFMs were developed to analyze systems with humans and equipment, integrating the technical, individual, collective and organizational (social) processes [12], [47] that happen concomitantly and intrinsically related in what is called the socio-technical system [4], [5]. The influence of such factors is represented as PSFs.…”

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The Effect of Psychotropic Drugs as a Performance Influencing Factor on Human Reliability Assessment

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The increasing use/abuse of psychotropic drugs is an alarming social phenomenon with repercusions in many areas, especially in reliability engineering. The aim of this paper is to present a method developed by a multidisciplinary team composed of ergonomists, psychiatrists, information technologists, and reliability engineers to quantitatively consider the impact of psychotropic drugs on the assessment of human reliability of Operation and Maintenance (O&M) personnel of a hydroelectric plant. To achieve the proposed objective, the first step was the identification of drugs that affect the psychic-cognitive/sensory and motor functions as a side effect and the frequency (probability of occurrence) of the effect. This was done mining public and private drug databases. A qualitative (symbolic) scale later translated into numerical values was used to quantify the impact of each drug on the affected functions. At the same time, O&M tasks were broken down into observable activity sequences, recording the frequency of each activity on each task (Task Analysis). Then, the relationship between each activity and the sensory-cognitive-motor psychic functions was established, based on the knowledge and experience of the team involved. Again a qualitative (symbolic) scale was defined and later transformed into a numerical scale. As a result, the first version of a drug effect-task knowledge database (KDB) was built with the symbolic and numerical values assigned to all relationships between the different model elements. Although the KDB needs to be systematically reviewed and updated by a broader network of ergonomists and psychiatrists, it has served as proof of concept and a starting point for the development of a human risk management tool for hydroelectric power plants. The last step was to calculate a new Performance Shaping Factor (PSF) due to Psychotropic Drugs Use (PDU), for each drug in each of the O&M tasks. In a preliminary assessment of the inclusion of PDU-PSF with three common methods of Human Reliability Assessment (HRA), we found an increased risk of human failure ranging from approximately 15% to 35%, depending on the HRA method. The case study used to illustrate the method considered a routine operator inspection task using an antidepressant drug. The proposed method can be updated for new drugs and can be refined/customized for other high-risk human activities such as oil and gas and petrochemical industries, nuclear power plants, aviation, and surgery, among others. INDEX TERMS Human error analysis, reliability, task analysis, psychotropic drugs, human reliability.

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Human Factors Methods for Improving Performance in the Process Industries

Cited by 6 publications

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Effect of Training, Job Stress, and Motivation on Work Productivity with Unsafe Actions as An Intervening Variable

Effect of Training, Job Stress, and Motivation on Work Productivity with Unsafe Actions as An Intervening Variable

Organizational control for safety: A challenge in socioeconomic and natural environment

The Effect of Psychotropic Drugs as a Performance Influencing Factor on Human Reliability Assessment

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