Staffing arrangements for process plant have been studied extensively in recent years taking account of the many interdependent variables influencing system performance (individual competence, equipment, teamwork and communications, procedures and organisation). This paper describes work to determine the optimum staffing using human engineering tools such as task analysis, function allocation, workload analysis, and human reliability analysis.
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