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Here are a selection of research reports, conference papers and short articles by The Keil Centre's Chartered Psychologists on Human Factors in Safety.

Research Reports

1. Health and Safety Executive Research Report: Investigation of the links between psychological ill-health, stress and safety - download - (PDF - 1.28MB - 106 pages)

Prepared by The Keil Centre's Chartered Psychologists

2. Health and Safety Executive Research Report: Review of behavioural safety literature and key steps to ensure implementation success - download - (PDF - 1.49MB - 26 pages)

Prepared by The Keil Centre's Chartered Psychologists

3. Health and Safety Executive Research Report: Case Studies of 4 different behavioural safety programmes - download - (PDF - 341KB - 30 pages)

Prepared by The Keil Centre's Chartered Psychologists

4. Health and Safety Executive Research Report: Applying behavioural safety to wider range of behaviours, and integrating with health and safety management system - download - (PDF - 99KB - 82 pages)

Prepared by The Keil Centre's Chartered Psychologists

5. Step-Change in Safety "Changing Minds" report, based on Safety Culture Maturity® Model - link

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6. Health and Safety Executive Research Report: Evaluation of HSE's Climate Survey Tool - download - (PDF - 777KB - 54 pages)

Prepared by The Keil Centre's Chartered Psychologists

7. Health and Safety Executive Research Report: Effective shift handover: a literature review - download - (PDF - 191KB - 19 pages)

Up-to-date research and best practice on how to achieve effective shift handovers.

Prepared by Ronny Lardner, Chartered Occupational Psychologist, The Keil Centre Edinburgh

Conference Papers

1. Developing Human Factors in High-Hazard Site - download - (PDF - 58KB - 7 pages)

A paper by Phil Joyner and Ronny Lardner of The Keil Centre, describing their 3-year project at BP's Grangemouth site, which developed the site's internal expertise in managing the human factors which affect health and safety. This paper was presented at the Loss Prevention 2004 conference in Prague.

2. Helping engineers to analyse and influence the human factors in accidents at work - download - (PDF - 63KB - 5 pages)

A paper published in Process Safety and Environmental Protection - the official journal of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering - which describes methods which have been successfully used to enhance incident investigations, and develop better recommendations to address violations, errors and safety culture deficiencies.

3. Towards a Mature Safety Culture - download - (PDF - 150KB - 9 pages)

A paper presented at the Institution of Chemical Engineers 2002 conference, describing an award-winning project to develop safety culture at BP's Dalmeny and Hound Point tanker loading facilities.

4. Designing teams for safety, productivity and job satisfaction - download - (PDF - 113KB - 10 pages)

A paper written for the Society of Petroleum Engineers describing recent research and operator experience of self-managing teams in the offshore oil and gas industry.

5. Personalising safety culture... - download - (PDF - 796KB - 7 pages)

This paper, to be presented at the IChemE's 2007 Loss Prevention conference, describes the development and implementation of an innovative 3-level safety behaviour model, which includes managers, supervisors and everyone in the organisation. The sets of behaviours which support a strong safety culture are defined.

6. Mindfulness: realising the benefits - download - (PDF - 413KB - 6 pages)

This paper will be a keynote presentation at the IChemE's 2007 Loss Prevention conference. It discusses individual mindfulness and the qualities of those who exhibit it. It reflects on what needs to be provided by the organisation, including examples of useful tools, to ensure it is understood and applied and, critically, how the organisation and those who work in it should react and respond to individuals who demonstrate mindfulness in order to ensure its sustainability.

7. Safe Communication At Shift Handover: Setting And Implementing Standards - download - (PDF - 144KB - 14 pages)

This paper, presented at IChemE's 2006 Hazards symposium, describes a comprehensive and successful project to improve standards of shift handover at a large oil refinery.

8. Towards the integration of human factors root causes - download - (PDF - 121KB - 7 pages)

This paper was presented at the IChemE Loss Prevention 2007 conference in Edinburgh. It describes one of the key outcomes of a piece of research into the impact of psychological ill-health on safety - that there is a strong case for greater synergy between occupational health professionals and incident investigators in order to identify the conditions which may impact on incident occurrence as well as the psychological health of the workforce.

9. The necessity of trust and ‘creative mistrust’ for developing a safe culture - download - (PDF - 468KB - 8 pages)

This paper was presented at the IChemE Hazards XX 2008 conference in Manchester, UK. The paper examines the results of research carried out in a large maintenance organisation to examine the relationship between trust on communication and safety behaviours. It argues that trust and 'creative mistrust' are not logical opposites and are needed in equal measures to support the functioning of a safe culture. A practical model for developing trust and ‘creative mistrust’ is proposed and discussed.

10. Our Safety Culture - Our Behaviour is the Key- download - (PDF - 665KB - 8 pages)

A paper presented at the 2008 Society of Petroleum Engineers conference in Nice, France, jointly-authored by Aidan Hayes and Emily Novatsis of Woodside Energy, Australia and Ronny Lardner from The Keil Centre. Describes the development and implementation of Woodside Energy's "Our Safety Culture model", and its integration into HSE and HR mangement systems.

Books

1. Human Factors Methods of Improving Performance in the Process Industries - click here to view

Written by the human factors sub-committee of CCPS, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Center for Chemical Process Safety, and chaired by Phil Joyner.

Short Articles by The Keil Centre's Chartered Psychologists

1. It's All Gone Pear-Shaped - download - (PDF - 114KB - 2 pages)

How Crew Resource Management training can assist control room teams managing emergencies.

2. Safer Behaviour at Work - download - (PDF - 48KB - 3 pages)

About the psychological principles behind observation programmes which aim to modify unsafe behaviour.

3. To Err is Human... - download - (PDF - 147KB - 3 pages)

...but organisations make mistakes too. By understanding the cause of errors, accidents, incidents and near-miss investigations can be more effective.

4. When is a Risk not a Risk? - download - (PDF - 1.5MB - 3 pages)

Explores human factors aspects of risk perception.

5. Safety Culture - the Way Forward - download - (PDF - 547KB - 3 pages)

Explores current approaches to safety culture improvement.

6. Better Shift Systems - download - (PDF - 477KB - 3 pages)

There is probably no such thing as a "good" shift system. However, according to Ronny Lardner and Bob Miles, some are better than others.

7. Hints on Handovers - download - (PDF - 3.5MB - 3 pages)

Ronny Lardner reports on recent HSE research, giving helpful hints on eradicating communication errors at shift handover, illustrated by some alarming case studies.

 

1. Human factors analysis tools - A short article from IOSH's monthly Safety and Health Practitioner magazine, describing an award-winning project by The Keil Centre's Chartered Psychologists to investigate and influence the human factors underyling accidents at work. First published in the April 2007 issue www.shponline.co.uk - download - (PDF - 1MB - 3 pages)

 

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