Human and organizational factors assessment and their use as potential safety barriers

Mehmood Ahmad; Marco Pontiggia; Micaela Demichela; Maria Chiara Leva

Human and organizational factors assessment and their use as potential safety barriers

Mehmood Ahmad
, Marco Pontiggia
, Micaela Demichela
, Maria Chiara Leva

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

This paper presents a statistical analysis of past accidents that occurred between 1988 and 2012 reported to the European Commission's Major Accident Reporting System (eMARS) focusing on human and organizational factor (HOF) assessment. The main purpose of this analysis is to provide guidelines for the HOF analysis and its quantification for accident risk assessment in chemical process industries. In this analysis both operational and diagnostic layers are considered with respect to human actions. For the purpose of this analysis, five identified organizational factors have been selected as Performance Shaping Factors (PSF) for human actions/interventions. The SPAR- H model has been applied to evaluate the affect of PSFs on the human reliability. The overall framework has been modeled by using a newly developed approach, the Method for Error Deduction and Incident Analysis (MEDIA). In MEDIA new HOF action- based taxonomies have also been developed. By using a score method it is possible to identify the most critical PSF for human reliability, which should be improved in order to improve the overall human reliability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety
Publisher	AIChE
Pages	729-746
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510806849
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety - Austin, United States Duration: 26 Apr 2015 → 30 Apr 2015

Publication series

Name	30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety

Conference

Conference	30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	26/04/15 → 30/04/15

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Accident analysis
Barrier analysis
Human factor
Organizational factor

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Ahmad, M., Pontiggia, M., Demichela, M., & Leva, M. C. (2015). Human and organizational factors assessment and their use as potential safety barriers. In 30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety (pp. 729-746). (30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety). AIChE.

Ahmad, Mehmood ; Pontiggia, Marco ; Demichela, Micaela et al. / Human and organizational factors assessment and their use as potential safety barriers. 30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety. AIChE, 2015. pp. 729-746 (30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety).

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Ahmad, M, Pontiggia, M, Demichela, M & Leva, MC 2015, Human and organizational factors assessment and their use as potential safety barriers. in 30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety. 30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety, AIChE, pp. 729-746, 30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety, Austin, United States, 26/04/15.

Human and organizational factors assessment and their use as potential safety barriers. / Ahmad, Mehmood; Pontiggia, Marco; Demichela, Micaela et al.
30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety. AIChE, 2015. p. 729-746 (30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Ahmad M, Pontiggia M, Demichela M, Leva MC. Human and organizational factors assessment and their use as potential safety barriers. In 30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety. AIChE. 2015. p. 729-746. (30th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference 2015 - Topical Conference at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety).

Human and organizational factors assessment and their use as potential safety barriers

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