Analysis of human actions as barriers in major accidents in the petroleum industry, applicability of human reliability analysis methods (Petro-HRA)

This paper presents an ongoing project called "Analysis of human actions as barriers in major accidents in the petroleum industry, applicability of human reliability analysis methods (Petro-HRA)". The primary objective of this project is to test, evaluate and adjust Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) methods for use in quantifying the likelihood of human error and identifying the impact of human actions on the post-initiator barriers in the main accident scenarios in the petroleum industry. This project has chosen the HRA method "Standardized Plant Analysis Risk - Human Reliability Analysis" (SPAR-H) as the main method to adjust to a petroleum industry context. SPAR-H is a quantification method and it does not include description of the "qualitative data collection," "task identification" and "task analysis" part of an HRA analysis. This project aims at developing guidelines for all the steps in performing an HRA analysis with SPAR-H in the petroleum industry.