Effects of cold environments on human reliability assessment in offshore oil and gas facilities

Human Factors

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 825-839

  Noroozi, Alireza ^a   Abbassi, Rouzbeh ^b   MacKinnon, Scott ^a   Khan, Faisal ^a   Khakzad, Nima ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold regions; Human error; Maintenance; Offshore oil and gas industry; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DRILLING PLATFORMS; ERRORS; MAINTENANCE; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; COLD REGIONS; HUMAN ERROR ASSESSMENT; HUMAN ERROR PROBABILITY; HUMAN ERRORS; HUMAN RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY; REDUCTION TECHNIQUES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; COLD; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; MINING; OIL AND GAS FIELD; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COLD TEMPERATURE; DECISION MAKING; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MAINTENANCE; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905171724     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720813512328     Document Type: Article

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