The purpose of this project was to develop procedures that could be used by liquid pipeline operators to assess and manage the human factors risks in their control rooms that may adversely affect pipeline monitoring and control operations. The three…
The term "Human Factors" has become a buzz phrase in the pipeline industry, and rightfully so. Root cause analyses of many failures point to human error as the cause. However, in the pipeline industry, "Human Factors" generally refers to ergonomics,…
This guide has been developed to provide instructions for using the Excel based "Pipeline Assessment Tool for Human Factors (PATH)". This guide provides: Concise instructions on how to use the PATH tool to evaluate actual performance against human…
PRCI commissioned this project (NDE-2-7) to further investigate the effects of human performance factors on Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) performance for conducting Magnetic Particle Inspections (MPI) and Ultrasonic Thickness Testing (UT) on…
An industry survey was established to understand perceived baseline competency requirements for a number of areas within the pipeline industry (across the entire pipeline lifecycle) and to identify gaps within the industry. An online survey was…