Human Factors Engineering at Design Projects for Process Industry - Challenges and Lessons Learned

Human Factors Engineering (HFE ) hasa key role in promoting the inclusion of human factors knowledge at design and construction phase of socio-technical systems so as to insure what is known about human performance drivers and limitations is appropriately catered for. The goal is to put the human at the core of the design and built the system to optimise the human contribution to production and minimise potential for design-induced errors minimising risks to health, personal or process safety and environmental performance. This paper describes the cosnideration steming from the experience of the authors in design projects as human factors consultant. This experiences highlighted key gaps and requirements for an optimum human factors engineering.