The discipline concerned with understanding how people interact with systems, equipment and procedures to improve safety, reliability and performance.
Human Factors is the application of human capabilities, limitations and behavior to the design of equipment, procedures, work environments and organizational systems. The objective is to reduce the likelihood of human error while improving safety, efficiency, usability and operational performance throughout the asset lifecycle.
Human Factors engineering improves both personnel safety and asset reliability by designing systems that better support human decision-making and operational performance.
Human Factors considerations include ergonomics, alarm management, interface design, workload, situational awareness, training, organizational culture and procedural design.
Human Factors addresses the interaction between people and systems, whereas ergonomics focuses primarily on optimizing the physical work environment for human use.
Process Safety; Operations; Reliability Engineering.
Process safety.; Control rooms.; Maintenance.; Operations.; Engineering design.
ISO 6385
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