Chapter 15

Human Reliability Analysis in the Petroleum Industry

Tutorial and Examples

N. Paltrinieri1,2, S. Massaiu3,  and A. Matteini4     1Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway     2SINTEF Technology and Society, Trondheim, Norway     3Institute for Energy Technology, OECD Halden Reactor Project, Halden, Norway     4University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Abstract

Quantitative risk assessment may be integrated by means of human reliability analysis, which assesses the probability of human failure events by evaluating the influence of underlying factors on human performance. A step-by-step tutorial for the application of a human error quantification technique is presented in this chapter. However, the application ...

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