Welcome to the Center for Operator Performance
WHO WE ARE
Operating safely requires redundancy of many components.
Operating competitively requires lack of redundancy of the human component.
The Center for Operator Performance is a diverse group of industry, vendor, and academia representatives addressing human capabilities and limitations with research, collaboration, and human factors engineering.
Our mission to raise the performance level of our operators and improve Health, Safety, and Environmental effectiveness is accomplished through:
- Openly sharing knowledge and ideas
- Putting collaboration ahead of competition
- Including vendors in research decisions
- Teaming with leading human factors researchers and universities
Companies who can join the Center for Operator Performance include refineries, pipelines, process plants, mills and suppliers. We invite you to become a participating member.
What's New
- Check out the May 2012 Control Design article The Keys to Operator Performance: Operator Error Rates Double on the Ninth Day of Work After Eight Days of Consistent Performance for a recap of several interesting findings from ongoing projects
- How to Build a Better Operator article by Aaron Hand of Control Design provides a summary of the Center for Operator Performance presentations at ABB Automation & Power World 2012
- The COP Summer Meeting is May 15-17, 2012 at Wright State University. Contact Lisa Via by May 4th for reservations!
- Upcoming Presentation at ATPM 2012: Join Dave Strobhar for Modularizing Emergency Procedures for Increased Ease of Use and Updating on Tuesday, May 22nd at 4pm
- Update to the Recommended Reading List: Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
- Join the COP at ATPM 2012 which will be held at the Lone Star Community Building and Conference Center, The Woodlands, Texas, May 21-23. This new conference will focus on applying automation and control technology in process manufacturing.
- More News
AN INVITATION TO LEARN MORE
The Center for Operator Performance was created in 2007 as an alliance of academic and process companies to research issues facing the petrochemical industry in the area of human factors and operator performance. We invite you to read our Founding Press Release (27KB PDF) and to continue to explore our website to learn more about our mission and organization.