ADVANCED PROCEDURES

Previous studies and industrial investigations have demonstrated that workers' performance with proceduralized tasks and written procedures continues to be associated with process incidents. Though many efforts have been made to address this, these issues persist. The Advanced Procedures initiative was established in 2013 as a collaboration between the Texas A&M Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center and the Ergonomics Center. This initiative has resulted in numerous ongoing projects, all serving to identify important elements of effective procedural systems based on human systems interactions. These elements serve to increase workers' adherence to procedures by improving the usefulness of the procedures, overall procedural systems, and methods for delivering and utilizing them. From these, guidelines for a procedure writer's guide have been developed which are continuing to evolve and become more refined as more information is gained from the results of our research projects.

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