While he was President of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF), Hu-Tech's Director, Dr Ian Randle, presented in sessions of the HSE Global conference in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Part 1 and Part 2 of these are shown below.
Hu-Tech are a leading supplier of Human Factors Engineering (HFE) services to the Oil & Gas industry and a preferred supplier to a number of major oil/gas operating companies and engineering contractors.  We are proud to have supported over 100 capital projects around the world including Europe, Africa, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia and Australasia.
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Our experience ranges from providing HFE support to engineering design projects from Concept through Operate stages, to undertaking discrete assessments (e.g. PUWER, incident investigation) on operating assets, and providing HFE training courses and awareness seminars. 

Hu-Tech have also  worked closely with the UK HSE to undertake research and develop guidance material for the offshore sector, and requirements of the  offshore Safety Case and COMAH Regulations.​ We are very familiar with the application of relevant HFE & safety Statutory Regulations and industry standards.

​Our principal services include:

Engineering Design:
  • Preparation of key HFE documents e.g. HFE Integration Plans &  Specifications
  • HFE Screening (including vendor packages)
  • Task Requirements Analysis (TRA)
  • Control Rooms - functional analysis & design, Human-Machine Interface (HMI) review and support to alarm management studies
  • Valve Criticality Analysis (VCA)
  • 3D model reviews (from our offices or on client sites)
  • Flow analysis and wayfinding 
  • Factory and Site Acceptance Tests (FATs)
  • Construction phase HFE design verification
  • HFE training & awareness seminars
Process Safety:
  • Support to HAZOP studies
  • Safety Critical Task identification and analysis
  • Human Error Analysis
  • Input to Safety Case reports
  • Working Environment assessment (including to NORSOK S-001/2)
  • COMAH HF compliance review
Operations:
  • Development of Safety Critical procedures
  • Operating Site/Asset HFE compliance review
  • Workload and Manning studies
  • Fatigue assessment and prediction
  • Safety Management System review
  • PUWER assessments
  • Learning from Incidents (LFI)
  • Incident inspections
  • Training in HFE methods and tools
  • Manual Handling risk assessment

Further reading
 The CIEHF's white paper on Human Factors in Barrier Management  with relevance to offshore oil and gas, co-authored by Hu-Tech Senior Team members

The Energy Institute - 13 sheets on Manual Handling & Ergonomics Guidance for Offshore Installations, written and developed by Hu-Tech