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Human Factors is now recognized as a major contributor to operational safety, loss prevention and optimizing system performance in the Petrochemicals industries. Human actions and decisions represent means of promoting effective operation as well being potential sources of error. The study of human error and reliability is essential to ensure the safe and reliable operation of industrial plant and systems which involve human operators.

Human Factors Integration aims to 'design-in' the humans into plant and system design, taking account of their capabilities and limitations. This can lead to significant savings in both CAPEX and OPEX through appropriate manning levels, maintainable plant, reduced rework and user-friendly facilities and systems.

There is also an increased regulatory drive towards a consideration of Human Factors in offshore safety cases and COMAH safety reports. The UK HSE Hazardous Installations Directorate has identified its Top 10 Human Factors issues in industrial safety. These include staffing levels and workload, human factors in design and maintenance error. It is no longer acceptable to consider human error as something which is impossible to predict and control.

Hu-Tech has a long track record in working with projects, safety and operational teams in the practical application of Human Factors. We have applied tried and trusted structured methods in numerous studies, from the design of major control rooms to the reduction of human error in product testing.

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