Designing for Human Reliability - Human Factors Engineering in the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries (Paperback)

Industry underestimates the extent to which behaviour at work is influenced by the design of the working environment. Designing for Human Reliability argues that greater awareness of the contribution of design to human error can significantly enhance HSE performance and improve return on investment. Illustrated with many examples, Designing for Human Reliability explores why work systems are designed and implemented such that "design-induced human error" becomes more-or-less inevitable. McLeod demonstrates how well understood psychological processes can lead people to make decisions and to take actions that otherwise seem impossible to understand. Designing for Human Reliability sets out thirteen key elements to deliver the levels of human reliability expected to achieve the return on investment sought when decisions are made to invest in projects. And it demonstrates how investigation of the human contribution to incidents can be improved by focusing on what companies expected and intended when they chose to rely on human performance as a barrier, or control, against incidents.

General

Imprint:	Gulf Professional Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Ronald W McLeod
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	422
ISBN-13:	978-0-12-802421-8
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Technical design > Ergonomics Promotions
LSN:	0-12-802421-6
Barcode:	9780128024218

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