The systematic integration of Human Factors into safety analyses: an integrated engineering approach

Autor: Micaela Demichela, Simone Colombo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2008
Předmět:
Risk analysis
human reliability analysis
Engineering
Operability
Operations research
H&OF
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
erroneous intervention of rotective means
EOC
top event
ESFs
Safety engineering
EIPM
integrated recursive operability analysis
human and organisational factors
Macro
engineered safety features
Safety
Risk
Reliability and Quality

Reliability (statistics)
ROA
Human reliability
MI
Fault tree analysis
Integrated engineering
business.industry
HFs
HRA
IROA
APM
Risk analysis (engineering)
automatic protective means
automatic protective means
EIPM

erroneous intervention of rotective means
EOC

errors of commission
ESFs

engineered safety features
HFs

human factors
HRA

human reliability analysis
H&OF; human and organisational factors
IROA

integrated recursive operability analysis
MI

missing intervention
ROA

recursive operability analysis
TE

missing intervention
errors of commission
business
human factors
recursive operability analysis
TE
Popis: The performance of the human reliability analysis (HRA) and integration of its outcomes into quantitative risk assessment schemes remains quite a difficult and complex task to perform. Even worse is the assessment of organisational reliability assessment. The reasons of this difficulty mainly lay on the absence of a generically accepted paradigm that enables engineers to include systematically human and organisational factors (H&OF) into the analysis. Broadly speaking, engineering approaches very often account for error of omission forgetting the errors of commission (EOC), and, on top of that, they do not make any macro distinction between pre- and post-initiating human failures. This paper offers a paradigm on how to integrate H&OF into safety analysis by means of the recursive operability analysis (ROA), which has been adapted to accommodate H&OF, and renamed integrated recursive operability analysis (IROA). By means of a practical example, the method will illustrate how to account for H&OF in a systematic and consistent manner using an engineering approach. The paper will even provide a paradigm for the construction of integrated fault trees consistent with the IROA framework.
Databáze: OpenAIRE