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Oil Spill Prevention

Oil spills happen in rivers, bays and the ocean and are most often caused by accidents involving tankers, barges and oil rigs, among other facilities .

But a common cause across all of these oil spills is people making mistakes

In the oil and gas industry, Human Factors is an essential component in the effort to operate in a safe and efficient manner to prevent oil spillage.

Some areas in which Human Factors has a key role include:

-Design of tools, equipment and user interfaces in a way that augments the user’s work performance

-Human and organizational factors in risk assessments and emergency preparedness planning

-Human behaviour and cognition in accident causation

-Efficient decision making and teamwork in stressful or critical situations like oil spills

-Safety culture and safety behaviour improvement programs (including leadership)

-Organizational reliability

The goal is to proactively identify risks and improvement opportunities, apply best practices, and support implementation in business and operational functions.


This is just one of the many ways in which Human Factors can contribute to ensure minimal waste makes it to the ocean


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Oil spills happen in rivers, bays and the ocean and are most often caused by accidents involving tankers, barges and oil rigs, among other facilities .

But a common cause across all of these oil spills is people making mistakes

In the oil and gas industry, Human Factors is an essential component in the effort to operate in a safe and efficient manner to prevent oil spillage.

Some areas in which Human Factors has a key role include:

-Design of tools, equipment and user interfaces in a way that augments the user’s work performance

-Human and organizational factors in risk assessments and emergency preparedness planning

-Human behaviour and cognition in accident causation

-Efficient decision making and teamwork in stressful or critical situations like oil spills

-Safety culture and safety behaviour improvement programs (including leadership)

-Organizational reliability

The goal is to proactively identify risks and improvement opportunities, apply best practices, and support implementation in business and operational functions.

This is just one of the many ways in which Human Factors can contribute to ensure minimal waste makes it to the ocean

To donate to #teamseas or to find out more about the #teamseas campaign, visit teamseas.org

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Nick is currently a Senior UX Researcher at Turvo in the Pacific Northwest, focused on developing innovative solutions and optimizing human performance for SaaS based supply chain logistics programs. Alongside colleague and friends, Blake Arnsdorff and Barry Kirby, Nick hosts and produces Human Factors Cast, a weekly podcast that investigates the sciences of human factors, psychology, engineering, biomechanics, industrial design, physiology and anthropometry and how it affects our interaction with technology. Nick’s other areas of interest include, but are not limited to virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, systems engineering, and artificially intelligent systems.

Nick Started Human Factors Cast in early 2016 as a side-project. He believed that the way Human Factors concepts were being communicated is broken and saw a way to fix it. After getting initial traction, Nick moved to work on the Human Factors Cast Digital Media Lab and began assembling a multi-disciplinary team to test out new concepts in Human Factors communication.