title: An integrated experiment for identification of best decision styles and teamworks with respect to HSE and ergonomics program: The case of a large oil refinery.
abstract: Decision making failure is a predominant human error in emergency situations. To demonstrate the subject model, operators of an oil refinery were asked to answer a health, safety and environment HSE-decision styles (DS) questionnaire. In order to achieve this purpose, qualitative indicators in HSE and ergonomics domain have been collected. Decision styles, related to the questions, have been selected based on Driver taxonomy of human decision making approach. Teamwork efficiency has been assessed based on different decision style combinations. The efficiency has been ranked based on HSE performance. Results revealed that efficient decision styles resulted from data envelopment analysis (DEA) optimization model is consistent with the plant's dominant styles. Therefore, improvement in system performance could be achieved using the best operator for critical posts or in team arrangements. This is the first study that identifies the best decision styles with respect to HSE and ergonomics factors.
authors.affiliation: School of Industrial Engineering and Center of Excellence for Intelligent Based Experimental Mechanic, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: aazadeh@ut.ac.ir.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Azadeh
authors.affiliation: School of Industrial Engineering and Center of Excellence for Intelligent Based Experimental Mechanic, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mokhtari
authors.affiliation: Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Yazd, Iran.
authors.forename: Z Jiryaei
authors.initials: ZJ
authors.lastname: Sharahi
authors.affiliation: School of Industrial Engineering and Center of Excellence for Intelligent Based Experimental Mechanic, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zarrin
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006804:Ergonomics; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D000066388:Oil and Gas Industry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Decision styles (DS); Efficiency; Environment (HSE); Ergonomics; Health; Oil refinery; Optimization; Performance failure; Safety