
Human Factors in the Chemical and Process Industries
Making it Work in Practice
Description
Key Features
- Provides comprehensive coverage of the most relevant human factors within this sector, with succinct overviews of each topic
- Uses case studies and practical examples to illustrate topics and explains the material in a fully accessible, easy to understand style
- Written by a single team of eleven industry practitioners, drawing on the combined expertise of different human factors specialisms which are rarely comprehensively combined in a single resource
Readership
Safety Engineers, Process Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Chemical Engineering Students
Table of Contents
0. Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction to Human Factors within the Chemical and Process Industries
1.1 What is Human Factors?
1.2 What Part Does Human Factors Play Within Chemical and Process Industries?
1.3 Review of Common Vulnerabilities and Contributions to Past Incidents
1.4 Current Regulatory and Government Focus on Human Factors
1.5 Management Frameworks for Human Factors
Chapter 2 Managing Human Failure
2.1 Human Factors in Risk Management
2.2 Reducing Human Failure
2.3 Human Factors in Incident Investigation
Chapter 3 Human Factors within Design and Engineering
3.1 Overview of Ergonomics / Human Factors Engineering
3.2 Human Factors Integration within Design / Engineering Programmes
3.3 Building and Control Room Design
3.4 Work Area, Workstation and Console Design
3.5 Control System Interface Design
3.6 Plant and Equipment Design
3.7 Human Factors in Materials Handling
3.8 Environmental Ergonomics
3.9 Human Factors in the Design of Procedures
Chapter 4 Understanding and Improving Organisational Performance
4.1 Safety Culture and Behaviour
4.2 Managing Organisational Change
4.3 Staffing the Operation
4.4 Safety Critical Communication
4.5 Managing Fatigue
4.6 Managing Performance under Pressure
Product details
- No. of pages: 526
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2016
- Published: September 17, 2016
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128038062
- eBook ISBN: 9780128038789
About the Editors
Janette Edmonds
Affiliations and Expertise
The Keil Centre
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
(Total rating for all reviews)
JohnRiddick Tue Aug 13 2019
Human Factors in the Chemical and Process Industries
This is an excellent readable text covering the key HF elements associated with Process Safety and its management. The text will prove invaluable to both new and seasoned process safety professionals alike. Highly recommended.
Janette E. Wed Feb 21 2018
Human factors in the chemical and process industries: making it work in practice
The verbal feedback from readers of this text have commented that it makes human factors more accessible and understandable. It is easy to read and not heavy going.