Control centers design for ergonomics and safety.
This paper shows the general design conditions about ergonomics and safety for control centers in the petrochemical process industry. Some of the topics include guidelines for the optimized workstation design, control room layout, building layout, and lighting, acoustical and environmental design. Also takes into account the safety parameters in the control rooms and centers design. The conditions and parameters shown in this paper come from the standards and global advances on this topic on the most recent publications. And also the work was supplemented by field visits of our team to the control center operations in a petrochemical company, and technical literature search efforts. This guideline will be useful to increase the productivity and improve the working conditions at the control rooms.
Ergonomics Studies Center, Javeriana University, Calle 40 No 5- 37, Bogota, Colombia. lquin@javeriana.edu.co
Leonardo
L
Quintana
Cesar
C
Lizarazo
Oscar
O
Bernal
Jorge
J
Cordoba
Claudia
C
Arias
Magda
M
Monroy
Carlos
C
Cotrino
Olga
O
Montoya
D000162:Acoustics; D002617:Chemical Industry; D006804:Ergonomics; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007374:Interior Design and Furnishings / Q000592:standards*; D008029:Lighting; D016272:Occupational Health; D012449:Safety