COP Members Dave Strobhar (Beville Engineering), Maurice Wilkins (Yokogawa) and Ferdinand Coster (Yokogawa) will be presenting at the 1st International Symposium on Human Mental Workload: Models and Applications at the Dublin Institute of Technology on June 28-30, 2017.  Presentations include Petrochemical plant console operator workload - the issues, Managing operator workload with standards based decisions support and Smart workload balancing. 

Thanks for joining us at the 2017 April COP Meeting in Lake Charles, Louisiana at McNeese State University on April 3rd - 5th!  Members can view the presentations.

The March Members Teleconference was held March 15th at 11am EDT.

Members and Non-members: Take the COP Highly Managed Alarm Survey!  All participants will receive results!

The February Members Teleconference was held February 15th at 11am EST.

Attending the 2017 Ethylene Producers’ Committee Conference?  Learn more about the COP and human factors research to improve operator performance by attending Mark Nixon’s presentation, Process Event Avoidance: Using Identification of Process Faults to Avoid Abnormal Process Events on March 29, 2017 in San Antonio, TX.

COP featured in Chemical Processing Minute Clinic Podcast Series on Operator Performance.  Take a listen!

Check out COP’s contribution to the latest Chemical Processing article: Efforts Bolster Operator Training