Increased product shelf-life and globalisation have led to longer and vastly more
complicated food chains; potentially presenting greater opportunity for contamination and …

Oil and gas (O&G) facilities often pose significant hazards to personnel, regardless whether
they are located onshore or offshore. This leads to the necessity for human factors …

New business models in complex engineering products have favoured the integration of
acquisition and sustainment phases in capability development. The product service system …

This paper is intended to suggest an approach to the methodology of evaluation on
abnormal accidents from human errors during decommissioning of nuclear facilities. A …

The use of robotics in the process industry has shown a stable, increasing trend, according
to survey reports, reducing the exposure of operators to critical operations, mainly during …

Purpose Reliability, maintainability and availability of modern complex engineered systems
are significantly affected by four basic systems or elements: hardware, software …

The study consists in devising a method to account qualitatively and quantitatively for the
human factor in verifying the Safety Integrity Level (SIL) assigned to machinery. Two crucial …

A widely used hazard identification technique within the process industry is HAZOP (hazard
and operability study). To overcome the repetitive and time-consuming nature of the …

Human and organizational factor (HOF) can lead to accidents in process industries, but at
the same time HOF can also be used as a safety barrier in order to optimize the existing …

Designing and operating production systems and keeping them up to date at the speed of
innovation to meet competition, consumer trends and sustainability requirements is a …