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Integration Of Human Factors Into Classification / Certification, James Card

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

1996 Conference

ABS, Classification Societies

Human Error and Accidents

Human Factors Issues in Classification / Certification

ABS - Management and Organizational Issues

ABS – Installation Design and Layout

ABS – Ambient Environment

ABS – People Issues

Different Models – Same Message

Questions?

Return On Investment In Use Of Human Factors In Offshore Systems: “Closing The Gap Between Conceptual Design And Engineering, Field Construction Activities And Operations”, Harrie J. T. Rensink

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

Agenda

Objectives

Shell International Health Services Usability & Human Factors Engineering

Client Portfolio & Projects

Business Objectives

Human Machine Interface Model

Physical Interface

Cognitive Interface

Business case

World class Projects

Literature “Development HSE improvements in hardware design”

Conclusion ‘traditional’ design process

Ergonomic Management & Information System (EMIS®)

The Design Process

Examples Smart design tools

Upgrader Main Control room Centre and Workshop Building Athabasca Oil Sands Downstream Project Shell Canada, Calgary

Link-analyses CCR / Engineering Functions frequency daily communication

INTERFACE RELATIONSHIP MATRIX FOR CENTRAL CONTR

Smart tool for Improving Plant & Equipment lay out Identification of Valves analysis (IVA ®)

Assurance …

Analysis Of Human Factors Related Accidents And Near Misses, James Reason

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

Two kinds of bad event

Two ways of looking at human factors problems

Individual & organizational ax have different causal sets

The ‘Swiss cheese’ model of accident causation

How and why defenses fail

Matrix for defensive failures

Piper Alpha: Defensive failures

Unsafe acts

Rule-related behaviours

Workplace factors

Organizational factors

Accident investigation steps

System contributions (Single or multiple events)

Aims of HF event analysis

Capitalizing On Behavior Based Safety To Address Human Resource Development Needs, Ron Newton

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

A Model For Examination Peak’s 10-Year Experience With Offshore Service Companies

Task #1 Define Behavioral Tendencies Of Mariners.

What Is Personality And Behavior?

Population

Mariner Personality Traits

TRAIT STRENGTHS

TRAIT WEAKNESSES

What Else Does It Tell Us?

Marine Offshore Temperament = High Turnover

DiSC™

Mariner Behavioral Tendencies

Mariner Behaviors

Task #2 Turn Behavioral Conclusions Into Effective Behavior Based Training Measures

Ask

Need

Step One: Match The Team To The Mission

Step Two: Communicate The Company’s Mission, System, And Culture

Step Three: Develop Employees Personally And Professionally

Step Four: Enhance Stability In The Individual And The Team

Step Five: Provide Accountability, …

Offshore Employment: Its Effects And Their Management, Mark Shrimpton

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

PRESENTATION STRUCTURE

RATIONALE, SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY

EFFECTS OF OFFSHORE EMPLOYMENT

RESPONSES

RESEARCH GAPS

RESEARCH ISSUES

Accident Investigation Trends - A Safety Management Perspective, David Dykes

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

Accident Investigation - Critical Element of MMS Safety

MMS Reaction to Trends

Trends Revealed in Recent Fatal Accident Investigations

Lack of Procedural Guidelines in Routine Tasks - Why?

Best Procedures Result from JHA/JSA

Management Responsibility

Contact Information

Thank You

Improving Incident Investigation Through Inclusion Of Human Factors, Anita Rothblum, David Wheal, Stuart Withington, Scott A. Shappell, Douglas A. Wiegmann, William Boehm, Marc Chaderjian

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

Studies of offshore and maritime incidents (accidents and near-misses) show that 80% or more involve human error. By investigating incidents, we can identify safety problems and take corrective actions to prevent future such events. While many offshore and maritime companies have incident investigation programs in place, most fall short in identifying and dealing with human errors. This paper discusses how to incorporate human factors into an incident investigation program. Topics include data collection and analysis and how to determine the types of safety interventions appropriate to safeguard against the identified risks. Examples are provided from three organizations that have established …

Effectively Including Human Factors In The Design Of New Facilities, Johan Hendrikse, Kevin Mcsweeney, Eileen B. Hoff, Paul Atkinson, Gerry Miller, George Connor, Ben Poblete, Rick Meyer, Pat O'Connor, Hilde Heber

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

Human error is a major cause of incidents in the offshore industry. For example, in the Gulf of Mexico region in 1998, 38% of all incidents were attributed to human error with an additional 9% of incidents resulting from slips, trips, and falls (MMS 2000-021, OCS Report). Human Factors, when integrated during the design of a new offshore facility, can reduce the potential for human error and the occurrence of unfortunate incidents.

Quite often the implementation of Human Factors (HF) during design is disregarded because of the notion that it will add unacceptable costs. Review of the cost/benefit data contained …

Application Of Human Factors In Reducing Human Error In Existing Offshore Facilities, Jeffrey Thomas, Clifford C. Baker, Thomas B. Malone, John T. Malone, Christina L. Hard, Ivan C. L. Rezende, Sally Caruana, Mark Witten

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

Human factors engineering (HFE) is the scientific and engineering discipline concerned with improving human performance and reducing human error in complex systems. HFE represents a merging of behavioral science and systems engineering and is directed at integrating people into the workplace. The discipline had its start in the aviation and aerospace industries.

The objective of HFE is to minimize the potential for human error and accidents by ensuring that the human can perform assigned activities as efficiently and effectively as possible. At a very basic level, a definition of human error can be “any deviation from expected human performance” (Senders …

Solving Human Factor Issues As Applied To The Work Force, Robert Miles, Dennis Attwood, Amy White

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

This paper aims to capture a range of current approaches to the management and delivery of safety by means of addressing workforce human factors issues. The paper is divided into a number of sections and each section is the product of the facilitated debate and discussions around the original discussion paper.

Effective Integration Of Human Factors Into Hse Management Systems, Denise B. Mccafferty, Clifford C. Baker, Kevin P. Mcsweeney, Rodger Holdsworth

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

It is common that offshore operating and drilling companies have policies, procedures, and practices that address Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) issues. It is less likely that such organizations will explicitly address (through written requirements) human factors (HF) concerns. Regardless, both HSE and HF are concerned with the same objectives: protecting people, property, and the natural environment from damage. The methods of each examine the job performed by the human, and compare work requirements to the design of hardware, software, and paper systems to allow safe and efficient performance. The perspectives of both disciplines are generally “user-centered” and act as …

Effective Application Of Behavioral Based Processes In Offshore Operations, Jim Spigener, Gillis Gaupreaux, Frank Amato, Brian N. Craig

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

The introduction of the behavioral-based safety process in the offshore industry over the past decade has had a significant impact on safety in general and the offshore safety culture in particular. The Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) process compliments Human Factors Engineering (HFE) efforts in the struggle to improve safety by minimizing the risk in the hazardous offshore environment. The behavioral-based safety process and HFE both focus on the workers by taking advantage of their strengths and minimizing their weaknesses.

The four key steps of the behavior based safety process are as follows:

1. Identifying behaviors – Identification of and operationally defining …

Public Law 107–355—Dec. 17, 2002

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

‘‘(1) The legal authority of Federal agencies and State and local governments in controlling land use and the limitations on such authority.

‘‘(2) The current practices of Federal agencies and State and local governments in addressing land use issues involving a pipeline easement.

‘‘(3) The most effective way to encourage Federal agencies and State and local governments to monitor and reduce encroachment upon pipeline rights-of-way.

‘‘(d) REPORT.—

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall publish a report identifying practices, laws, and ordinances that are most successful in addressing issues …

Interagency R&D Program Presentation

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

Presentation Objective

Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002 (PSIA 2002)

Interagency Implementation of the PSIA 2002 Mandate

Agency Responsibilities Related to PSIA 2002 Program Elements

Program Award Summary

Recent Joint Funding Activities

Six Consecutive Years of DOT & DOI Research Project Co-Funding

Research & Development Projects with Successful Hand-Offs

Technology Demonstrations

Joint Government/Industry Pipeline R&D Forum

Pipeline R&D Program Websites

Interagency Website for Section 12 of PSIA 2002

Joint Items/Events – Fiscal 2005

Pipeline R&D Program Contacts

Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy: A Newly Recognized Fatal Neurological Disease Of Eagles, Waterfowl And Other Birds, John R. Fischer, Lynn A. Lewis, Tom Augspurger, Tonie E. Rocke

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

Since 1994, wildlife biologists and wildlife health specialists have worked to determine the cause of avian vacuolar myelinopathy (AVM), a neurologic disease of bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and other birds. The causes of morbidity and mortality in wildlife typically are determined through both antemortem and postmortem examinations, combined with ancillary tests for microbiological organisms, toxicants and other etiologies. However, the etiology of AVM has not been determined yet, despite extensive diagnostic investigations, including examinations for common disease agents, as well as infrequent or unusual causes of mortality. With the failure of standard diagnostic testing to determine the cause …

The Influence Of Sylvatic Plague On North American Wildlife At The Landscape Level, With Special Emphasis On Black-Footed Ferret And Prairie Dog Conservation, Michael F. Antolin, Pete Gober, Bob Luce, Dean E. Biggins, William E. Van Pelt, David B. Seery, Micael Lockhart, Mark Ball

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

"Prairie-dogs are distributed over a large part of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions. Their colonies often number thousands of individuals, and their destruction of grasses and other forage plants makes them of considerable economic importance. Drastic measures are frequently necessary to prevent the destruction of crops of grain and hay. The Biological Survey is exterminating these rodents in national forests and in the public domain. The information in this report, in regards to the several species and their distribution, as indicated by maps, will aid materially in efforts, national or state, to control or exterminate them," said Henry …

Harvest Information Program: Evaluation And Recommendations, Jeffrey M. Ver Steeg, Richard C. Elden, David D. Dolton, Paul I. Padding

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

In 1989, William Molini, then President of IAFW A, appointed an ad hoc committee to develop a strategy for improving the overall reliability of the annual harvest estimates of migratory game birds and directed special emphasis on those species for which harvest data were the least satisfactory, e.g., doves and woodcock. In 1990, that ad hoc committee recommended to IAFW A that the Service, in cooperation with the states, establish a regulation requiring all migratory game bird hunters to obtain a nationwide permit annually. That recommendation (in Ad Hoc Committee Report on Waterfowl Breeding Ground Surveys and Migratory Bird Harvest …

Population Status And Harvests: Mid-Continent And Rocky Mountain Populations Of Sandhill Cranes 2002, David E. Sharp, James A. Dubovsky, Kammie L. Kruse

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

The Mid-Continent Population of Sandhill Cranes has been relatively stable since the early 1980s, compared to the dramatic increases that were recorded in the 1970s. The Central Platte River Valley, Nebraska spring index for 2002, uncorrected for visibility bias, was 313,600. The photo-corrected 3-year average for 1999-2001 was 396,167, which is within the established population objective range of 343,000-465,000 cranes. All Central Flyway states, except Nebraska, allowed crane hunting in portions of their respective states during 2001- 02. About 8,650 hunters participated in these seasons, which was 24% higher than the number that participated in the previous year’s seasons. About …

A Biologic Basis For Integrated Malaria Control, F. Ellis Mckenzie, J. Kevin Baird, John C. Beier, Altaf A. Lal, William H. Bossert

United States Navy: Publications

In a series ofmodels of Plasmodium falciparum dynamics, spontaneous local extinctions ofthe parasite sometimes occurred under steady, perennial-transmission conditions. These extinctions occurred only with extremely low mosquito densities or when the parameter describing the duration ofhu man infection-blocking immunity was at its maximum value, and, simultaneously, those describing vector survivorship and the duration ofhuman infectivity were at their minimum values. The range and frequency of extinctions increased with seasonal transmission, and decreased with the emergence ofrecombinant genotypes. Here we extend the immunity parameter up to levels that would describe a successful vaccine, and examine the combined influences of seasonality, genotype …

Epidemic Malaria In The Menoreh Hills Of Central Java, Mazie J. Barcus, Ferdinand Laihad, M. Sururi, Priyanto Sismadi, Harijani Marwoto, Michael J. Bangs, J. Kevin Baird

United States Navy: Publications

After more than 50 years of effective management, resurgent malaria threatens residents in the Menoreh Hills and the foothills of the Dieng Plateau of Central Java, Indonesia. The Dieng Plateau dominates the highland center of Central Java. The steep Menoreh Hills, surrounded by rice paddy habitats, cover approximately 500 km² with no peaks greater than 1,000 m. We studied epidemic malaria in Purworejo district, one of the three districts containing the Menoreh Hills. Between 1986 and 1995, the annual parasite incidence (API) in Purworejo ranged from 2 to 11 cases per 1,000 residents per year and was typically approximately …

Now & Then (Volume 19, Issue 02, 2002), Center Of Excellence For Appalachian Studies And Services, East Tennessee State University

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Volume 19, Issue 02, published in 2002. The theme of this issue is First Person Appalachia. This issue centers on personal narrative and memory as essential ways of preserving Appalachian experience. Through essays recounting encounters with patients, storytellers, family traditions, childhood moments, and creative callings, contributors reflect on how individual lives, whether those of physicians, writers, students, or community members, capture broader truths about identity, hardship, and belonging in the region. Complemented by fiction, poetry, and the 2002 Now & Then Appalachian Poetry Competition, the issue highlights storytelling as a vital means of …

University Of Nebraska- Lincoln: Prior Factbooks Selected Data

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Administration: Reports, Papers, Publications, and Presentations

Prior Fact Books Table of Contents

Student Credit Hours

UNL Student Credit Hours Total Fall, by College .................................................3

UNL Student Credit Hours Total Spring, By College ..............................................5

UNL Student Credit Hours Total Fall & Spring Semester, by College ....................7

Summer Sessions Student Credit Hours ..........................................................9

Retention, Degrees and Majors

Total Degrees conferred by UNL Fiscal Year ................................................10

Degrees Conferred ..............................................................................12

Student Tuition & Fees

Allocation of Student Fees per Student ..........................................................17

UNL Tuition per Credit Hour Trend ..............................................................22

The Administration's Approach To The Esa: Building A Stewardship Ethic For The 21st Century, Amy Klee

United States Bureau of Land Management: Staff Publications

When President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) into law in 1973, it is unlikely that anyone imagined the pivotal role it would play in a wide range of land and water management decisions. There are now over 1,200 species of plants and animals listed as threatened or endangered in the United States. Certain areas of the country that historically have had a great diversity of species are now home to large numbers oflisted plants and animals. California, for example, has 292 listed species, and Alabama has 125. In some areas, every major land and water management decision or …

From Benaras To Leh - The Trade And Use Of Silk-Brocade, Monisha Ahmed

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

A weaver in Benaras sits at his pit loom meticulously creating a textile piece of Mahakala, the god of protection for Buddhists.

A lama at the festival (’cham) at Hemis monastery performs the religious dance, the Mahakala image on his apron (pang-kheb) gazing out at the devotees as he pirouettes around the courtyard.

The two descriptions given above demonstrate the beginning and end of the journey of silkbrocades from Benaras to Leh. This paper looks at the historical context of the trade in silkbrocades from Benaras to Leh, and discusses how this trade first started. It …

Silk In Ancient Nubia: One Road, Many Sources, Nettie K. Adams, William S. Webb

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Silk in ancient Africa? Most of us think of ancient Africans as members of a tribe, living by subsistence farming or herding, in villages of grass houses. But Nubia, the ancient Kush, located along the Nile in southern Egypt and the northern part of the Sudan, (Fig.l) was inhabited by an African people who, by 1800 BC, had developed their own high civilization. The Kushites were suppliers of ivory, ebony, gold, ostrich feathers, animal skins, and slaves to ancient Egypt and elsewhere in the Mediterranean world. In exchange they received a wide variety of manufactured goods.

By the fourth century …

From Benaras To Leh - The Trade And Use Of Silk-Brocade, Monisha Ahmed

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

A weaver in Benaras sits at his pit loom meticulously creating a textile piece of Mahakala. the god of protection for Buddhists.

A lama at the festival ('cham) at Hemis monastery performs the religious dance, the Mahakala image on his apron (pang-kheb) gazing out at the devotees as he pirouettes around the courtyard.

The two descriptions given above demonstrate the beginning and end of the journey of silkbrocades from Benaras to Leh. This paper looks at the historical context of the trade in silk-brocades from Benaras to Leh, and discusses how this trade first started. It …

Cellar Roots, 2001-02, Emu's Literary And Visual Arts Multimedia Magazine, Eastern Michigan University

Cellar Roots

No abstract provided.

Without Doubt, History Will Do The Gallant Hero Justice, : Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss And The Failure Of American History, Toby Glenn Bates

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Adventure Education And Learning Communities: Linking Classroom Learning With Everyday Life, Andrew J. Bobilya, Lynn D. Akey

Academic Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.

What Difference Does Age Make?, Stephanie Hall-Sturgis

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.