Alarm Management is the most critical safety feature that your Pipeline Controllers address during abnormal and emergency operations. The appropriate response to alarms ensures that the risks of these operations are managed correctly.

Our human factors experts at the Pipeline Performance Group will conduct a formal audit of your alarm configurations and alarm response procedures.

We will assess:

Alarm presentation
Alarm format
Alarm content

We will work with you to clearly define the alarms, their functions and the correct response to those alarms. We will also address the alarm descriptions, their frequency of their use, and the impact on the controller during normal, abnormal, and emergency operations

Pipeline Performance Group Articles

Fatigue. Charles Alday

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Stress. Charles Alday

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Dirty Dozen API October 2009

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Human Factors and Pipeline Safety:

PHMSA Proposed Rule

By Charles Alday and Michele Terranova, Pipeline Performance Group | April 2009 Vol. 236 No. 4

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Presented "Fatigue Mitigation: Implications of Control Room Management Rule" in April 2009 to the American Petroleum Industry Pipeline Conference.

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Presented "The Dirty Dozen Causes of Errors and Accidents" to the Georgia Pipeline Safety Seminar (April 2009).

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Alarm Handling , Michele Terranova, Ph.D.

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Computer Interfaces Michele Terranova, Ph.D.

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Ergonomics Michele Terranova, Ph.D.

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Human Capabilities and Limitations Michele Terranova, Ph.D.