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file icon Abnormal Situation Management - The Need For Good Situation Awareness
A paper presented by Ian Nimmo, September of 2004 at the symposium “Advances in Process Control 7”.  The paper discusses strategies to help operators maintain a high level of situational awareness i.e., an accurate perception of the current condition of the process and equipment, and accurate understanding of the meaning of key performance indicators.
file icon Alarm Management & Graphics Projects
A longer and more detailed version of the Alarm Overload paper - written by Ian Nimmo.  Paper discussing the benefits of Alarm Management and Graphics Projects i.e., focusing on life-cycle characteristics and transitioning to maintaining good alarm management practices, and best practices design methodology on how to approach graphics development.
A paper presented by Ian Nimmo, January of 2010 at the 65th Annual Instrumentation Symposium for the Process Industries. 
file icon Lessons Learned From A Disaster
Written by Ian Nimmo and John Moscatelli.  Paper reflects on how learning from past experience has helped improve alarm managment systems.
file icon Operator Consoles: Growing Old Together
Written by Ian Nimmo, published in Hydrocarbon Engineering - January 2005.  Article discusses refurbishment projects and best methodologies and standards for making the changes such as Study of Management Systems, i.e., people and performance systems; Ergonomic Design of Operating desks or Consoles; Human Computer Interface, Alarm Management, and Design of Control Rooms.
file icon Organizational Accidents and Abnormal Situation Management