| dc.description.abstract | Focus on human factors is of increasing interest in the petroleum industry today. Accident investigations show that the human and organizational aspect is present in most incidents, but that it is hard to predict the contribution they make in the early stages.
The original aim for DNV and RF was to develop a method for integrating human factors into risk assessments, in order to increase their value as tools for decision support. During the first phase, and before RF began its work, DNV had revealed that human factors are usually not included in quantitative risk assessments (QRA) in a systematic manner. Our task was therefore going to be hard to solve through a single approach, and so the aim for RF was redefined as study of the conditions for human factors in the context of risk assessments. This meant researching how the concept of human factors is understood and treated within risk assessments, and studying the reasons why it is difficult to include human factors in QRA. Based on findings from these two areas, we then discuss the next challenges within human factors and risk assessments. | en_US |
