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Workload and Staffing Analysis Overview
Market, competitive, and regulatory pressures demand
that the utilization of refinery and plant personnel be efficient
and productive. These pressures are often competing, requiring that
more be accomplished with less people. Having too many people is
inefficient, not having enough is dangerous. In many cases, the
problem is not the number of operators, but how they are being
utilized. Unfortunately, evaluation of operating positions by plant
personnel is too often influenced by who has worked a job in the
past and over-emphasizing infrequent (yet memorable) events.
Beville provides an independent and objective method
to assess refinery and process operator workload and unit staffing
needs. Beville examines both steady state workload requirements and
upset/off-normal workload requirements. An imbalance between the two
is addressed through potential expansion of operator functions
and/or automation of upset tasks.
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Position |
Mode of Operation |
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Steady State |
Upset |
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Board |
Staff for |
Design for |
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Field |
Design for |
Staff for |
If upset staffing requirements are greater than
steady state staffing for a unit, two sets of options are developed.
One option entails increasing the steady state workload to improve
personnel utilization. The other option involves automating upset
tasks to reduce the workload needed to handle an upset.
For further information, visit the
links below.
Steady State Workload
& Staffing Analysis /
Steady State Job Samples
/
Upset Response
Staffing Analysis
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