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    refineries' plant inspection

    Some usefull inspection standards are 1. API 580 Risk-based inspection 2. API 581 Risk-based inspection Base Resource Document and not a standard but excellent report about this issue 3. HSE Contract Research Report 363/2001 Best Practice for Risk Based Inspection ... Have fun.
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    HAZOP & gross negilgence

    John since 2 decades I work as a risk consultant for the oil&gas industry and never ever a client or authority requested to include acts of gross negligence into a HAZOP. I agree fully with the arguments of Guidoo that the inclusion of negligence and terrorism is another topic and should be...
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    Consideration of Human Error in Risk Assessment

    azertyuiop we already delivered a QRA for a Belgium offshore windpark project. The Belgium authorities are very pragmatic and professional. There is no problem with the consideration of human errors in risk assessment. Regards Wolfram
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    Consideration of Human Error in Risk Assessment

    Hamish Hamish you are right my remark about owg's pointer was uncalled and I am sorry about that. I agree with you that it is time now to come to an end. Looking back to all the tips I have received during the last days I say thank you very much to all the one's who tried to help me. Nearly...
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    Consideration of Human Error in Risk Assessment

    curryhydrocarbons I am not sure whether your tip with a more or less vague statement about the list of reference is a help or a burden.
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    Consideration of Human Error in Risk Assessment

    Hamish thank you for the given reference of UK MCGA but the requirements/recommendations of this authority are very similar to the one already published by the Dutch and German authorities. I have never said that it is my responsibility or task to perform a HF assessment for all ships passing...
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    Consideration of Human Error in Risk Assessment

    Hamish if you are dealing with risk assessments for offshore installations it is worldwide common practice to consider the shipping traffic around the offshore installation (please look at www.standard.no/standard/NORSOK_standards/2169/Z-013.pdf which is one of the best standards for marine...
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    Consideration of Human Error in Risk Assessment

    Hamish all the time fascinating how you get the references. The publication from Mr. Koester (Danish Maritime Institute) is an excellent publication about categorization of human error in marine industry. Furthermore it describes quite plain the problems of understanding and analysing human...
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    Consideration of Human Error in Risk Assessment

    owg if you reed the first publications about human error reliability or human error analysis (e.g. NUREG handbook about Human Error Analysis or the publications from Hunns and Daniels) you may find the indication that all human error rates were collected and analysed by the participation of...
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    Consideration of Human Error in Risk Assessment

    JOM it is planned that for each offshore windpark the owner has to provide a permanently manned vessel traffic control and monitoring centre which is equipped with radar, AIS and VHF/UHF radio. The control centre will also be able to control and monitor remotely each turbine of the windpark...
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    Consideration of Human Error in Risk Assessment

    Hamish I assess the risk of an offshore windfarm (German Bight, area approx. 200 square kilometer, 214 wind turbines, each wind turbine is approx. 120 m high and the diameter of the pylon is approx. 10-15 m) which is more or less close to a lot of shipping lanes (approx 35000 passing ships per...
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    Consideration of Human Error in Risk Assessment

    Hamish your remarks are superb and I will follow your recommendations as much as possible. But how to apply HEART or THERP for all the ships (ships with individual bridge design, equipment standard, crew standard etc) passing the offshore windpark and how to get reliable data (probability or...
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    Consideration of Human Error in Risk Assessment

    Hamish O.K. let's talk about violations instead of negligence. Your statements how this issue is handled in a UK safety case are very helpful for me. Also I will try to get the briefing notes of IP and the thesis of Williams for further evaluation. The requirements of the German authorities are...
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    Consideration of Human Error in Risk Assessment

    owg it is well known in marine industry that the primary cause for marine accidents is human error. International literature and data base allocate 60 - 80 % to this type of failure. Still the question remains, how is human error handled in QRA within chemical and petrochemical industry and is...
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    Consideration of Human Error in Risk Assessment

    John ATSB has an excellent website about the investigation of shipping accidents and some of them reveal negligent or gross negligent actions of the ship management(as mentioned in your response). But I could not find statistics on their website in which they indicate the share of negligent or...

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