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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Members, the April 2018 Meeting Presentations and Short Courses are available on-line!
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Members, view the Mental Models Final Report!
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Current Practices in Process Control Training - Members, view the Final Report!
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Open to Members and Non-members - Join us at the April COP Meeting, April 10-12 at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
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The March Member Teleconference was held Wednesday, March 21st at 11AM EDT.
Quick Links
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.