The role of situation awareness in accidents of large-scale technological systems

Naderpour, Mohsen; Nazir, Salman; Lu, Jie

doi:10.1016/j.psep.2015.06.002

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“…Situational Awareness (SA) has been identified as an important construct for operators in modern complex socio-technical systems [34]. SA can be defined as a perception of the information elements in the dynamic environment, comprehension of their meaning, and projection of their future status [35].…”

Section: Situational Awarenessmentioning

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The Level of Automation in Emergency Quick Disconnect Decision Making

Imset

Falk

Kjørstad

et al. 2018

JMSE

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As a key measure for safety and environmental protection during offshore well operations, drill rigs are equipped with Emergency Quick Disconnect (EQD) systems. However, an EQD operation is in itself considered a risky operation with a major economic impact. For this reason, it is of great importance to aid the operators in their assessment of the situation at all times, and help them make the best decisions. However, despite the availability of such systems, accidents do happen. This demonstrates the vulnerability of our human decision-making capabilities in extremely stressful situations. One way of improving the overall human-system performance with respect to EQD is to increase the level and quality of the automation and decision support systems. Although there is plenty of evidence that automated systems have weaknesses, there is also evidence that advanced software systems outperform humans in complex decision-making. The major challenge is to make sure that EQD is performed when necessary, but there is also a need to decrease the number of false EQDs. This paper applies an existing framework for levels of automation in order to explore the critical decision process leading to an EQD. We provide an overview of the benefits and drawbacks of existing automation and decision support systems vs. manual human decision-making. Data are collected from interviews of offshore users, suppliers, and oil companies, as well as from formal operational procedures. Findings are discussed using an established framework for the level of automation. Our conclusion is that there is an appropriate level of automation in critical situations related to the loss of the position of the drill rig, and that there is the promising potential to increase the autonomy level in a mid-and long-term situation assessment.

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Section: Situational Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Level of Automation in Emergency Quick Disconnect Decision Making

Imset

Falk

Kjørstad

et al. 2018

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“…Endsley’s model is based on the general cognitive process that offers a broad theoretical construct with many application areas (Naderpour et al , 2015). This model represents “SA as product”, as it measures situation awareness in a particular context and in a particular point of time (Stanton et al , 2001).…”

Section: Situation Awareness Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role of human behaviour attributes in mobile crowd sensing: a systematic literature review

Agarwal

Chauhan

Kar

et al. 2017

DPRG

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Purpose Mobile crowd sensing (MCS) is a new paradigm enabled by Internet of Things (IoT) in which sensor-rich ubiquitous devices collect and share the data over a large geography. Human behaviour attributes (perception, comprehension and projection) play a key role in the decision-making process for sharing and processing the data. This study aims to understand how situation awareness plays an important role in MCS in an IoT ecosystem. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review was conducted by following a rigorous search protocol that identified a total of 470 peer-reviewed research papers. These papers were further filtered and finally 31 relevant papers were selected. Findings The major issues and concerns arising due to human participation in the MCS system were identified. Further, probable strategies were explored to deal with the challenges resulting due to certain human behaviour attributes. Practical implications This study provides the recommendations to address the major challenges related to the MCS system, which in turn may enhance the adoption of emerging smart technology-driven services. Originality/value The study is original and is based on the existing literature and its interpretation.

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“…Incident management based on Situational Awareness has been implemented in very different areas, among them smart grids [33], power generation [34] or vehicular collision avoidance systems [35]. In [36], a method for defining the critical information and the relevant information quality elements that are required to build the Shared Situational Awareness (SSA) in disaster response is suggested.…”

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Towards Incidence Management in 5G Based on Situational Awareness

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The fifth generation mobile network, or 5G, moves towards bringing solutions to deploying faster networks, with hundreds of thousands of simultaneous connections and massive data transfer. For this purpose, several emerging technologies are implemented, resulting in virtualization and self-organization of most of their components, which raises important challenges related to safety. In order to contribute to their resolution, this paper proposes a novel architecture for incident management on 5G. The approach combines the conventional risk management schemes with the Endsley Situational Awareness model, thus improving effectiveness in different aspects, among them the ability to adapt to complex and dynamical monitoring environments, and countermeasure tracking or the role of context when decision-making. The proposal takes into account all layers for information processing in 5G mobile networks, ranging from infrastructure to the actuators responsible for deploying corrective measures.

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The role of situation awareness in accidents of large-scale technological systems

Cited by 43 publications

References 30 publications

The Level of Automation in Emergency Quick Disconnect Decision Making

The Level of Automation in Emergency Quick Disconnect Decision Making

Role of human behaviour attributes in mobile crowd sensing: a systematic literature review

Towards Incidence Management in 5G Based on Situational Awareness

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