Welcome to the Center for Operator Performance
Who We Are
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,
- Including vendors in research decisions,
- Teaming with leading human factors researchers and universities, and
- Collaborating with a focus on HS&E.
We understand the operational realities that operating safely requires redundancy of many components and operating competitively requires lack of redundancy of the human component. These complexities keep plant operators at the center of improving operational performance and at the center of our efforts bringing research insights into process plants.
Companies who can join the Center for Operator Performance include refineries, chemical plants, pipelines, power plants, mills and suppliers. The Center is operating company driven, with research chosen for and by the operating companies. We invite you to become a participating member.
What’s New
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Maurice Wilkins of Yokogawa will be speaking on behalf of the COP at iChemE Best Practice and Emerging Technologies in Process Control Automation and Control, November 18-20, 2019 in Manchester, UK.
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The November Member Teleconference will take place Wednesday, November 20th from 11am-12pm EDT.
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COP Members can view the October 2019 Meeting Presentations now.
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COP Members can view the October 2019 Meeting Short Course now.
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Check out the COP track at the upcoming ISA Process Industry Conference! Camille Peres, Texas A&M University, will be presenting Procedural Systems, Safety Culture, and Process Safety: Relationships Between These and Operational Implications and Tiffany Bisbey, Rice University, will be presenting Creating a Collaborative Environment in the Control Room and the Field: Insights from the Science of Teamwork.
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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 view the Introduction to the COP Video (8:17 minutes), read our Founding Press Release (27KB PDF) and to continue to explore our website to learn more about our mission and organization.