Alarm floods are periods of alarm activity during which the alarm rate is greater than the operator can effectively manage (e.g., when the operator receives ≥10 alarms in 10 minutes). During a flood situation awareness is compromised and alarms are likely to be missed. In the eleven minutes prior to the explosion…
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Entries tagged with: HMI Design
- by Todd Stauffer
- Tuesday, December 03, 2019
- Alarm Management
Delivering Situation Awareness During an Alarm Flood: Throw Your Operators a Lifeline
- by Todd Stauffer
- Thursday, November 02, 2017
- Alarm Management
Human Factors in Alarm Management
Question:
Which one of these layers of protection (operator response to alarm, relief valves, dikes, and safety instrumented systems) is not like the other?
Answer:
Operator response to alarm (Operator Intervention), because of the “Human” factor.
It is very difficult to calculate the probability…