Situational Awareness Documents

Documents – Situational Awareness
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* Abnormal Situation Management – The need for Good Situation Awareness
A paper presented by Ian Nimmo, September of 2004 at the symposium “Advances in Process Control 7”.  The paper discusses strategies to help operators maintain a high level of situational awareness i.e., an accurate perception of the current condition of the process and equipment, and accurate understanding of the meaning of key performance indicators.

* Organizational Accidents and Abnormal Situation Management

* Situation Critical
Written by Ian Nimmo, published in Hydrocarbon Engineering – December 2006.  Article discusses organizational accidents and abnormal situation management.

* Operator Performance

* Abnormal Situation Management – The need for Good Situation Awareness
A paper presented by Ian Nimmo, September of 2004 at the symposium “Advances in Process Control 7”. The paper discusses strategies to help operators maintain a high level of situational awareness i.e., an accurate perception of the current condition of the process and equipment, and accurate understanding of the meaning of key performance indicators.

* Adequately Address Abnormal Operations – Effective Operations Practices describes a complete framework to improve a company’s preparedness for abnormal situations. Each of the seven practice categories is represented by 5-11 best practices or “guidelines” which are prioritized to assist companies as they move from basic to more advanced practices.