HP Community of Practice, a partnership between KnowledgeVine and Resilient Grid, provides a platform for sharing information across different domains and practices to create a diverse environment for all to learn and grow. We’re a community of people who take Human Performance, Safety, Resilience, and Continuous Improvement very, very seriously!
When building a training module or other learning opportunity, it's a challenge to ensure the content is retained long after the class ends, helping people operate safely and wisely into the future. Knowledge that fades quickly after a final exam or class is over doesn't benefit either the attendees who put in the time to participate or the managers and leaders who support those programs, targeting improvements that benefit individuals and the company.
Riz and Mike will cover two documents that will be released this year. Both documents address key issues of our time in the energy sector, bringing together subject matter experts across the industry, evaluating current trends, and making recommendations for how we can set up our industry to be more reliable, safe, and successful, in a changing world.
Doug Whitehead will talk about the psychology used every day in Waste Management systems across North America. This includes everything from worker safety to influencing humans to not just recycle but recycle correctly! Nobody cares about waste until it's not managed.
Commercial aviation has steadily increased the amount of passengers safely carried year after year. How has human performance helped the aviation community achieve such amazing safety records? Andrew will introduce why aviation style checklists are so effective at trapping errors.
The goal of this week's presentation is to help all individuals better understand arc flash hazards and how they are calculated regardless of previous technical and engineering knowledge. David will provide visual representations to better explain arc flash hazards, how they are calculated, the importance of PPE, and real-world examples of incidents.
As we spend so much of our time and energy at work, we often talk about culture to understand the environments we work in, how happy we are, and our perceptions about our safety, value, and contributions. But at a fundamental level, what is culture, and how do we, as complex individuals, come together to form these complex organizations?
Focusing on the Form: In the world of utility line work, 'The Form' – be it a Job Brief Form, JSA, JHA, or any other title – has undergone a subtle but significant transformation. Originally designed as a record of conversation, it's now often the starting point, overshadowing the crucial discussions it was meant to document.
Focusing on the Form: In the world of utility line work, 'The Form' – be it a Job Brief Form, JSA, JHA, or any other title – has undergone a subtle but significant transformation. Originally designed as a record of conversation, it's now often the starting point, overshadowing the crucial discussions it was meant to document.
Workforce development and creating a solid talent pipeline are critical needs for large companies, and the need to educate students faster and better continues to grow. Many organizations use new technologies, such as e-books, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality, in an attempt to accelerate this educational effort.
Please join us for a brief year in review, a discussion of the psychology of New Year's Resolutions, and a holiday get-together! We will try and keep this one short and sweet as we know we are competing for limited time as we all close out the year.
Mike and Dr. Mark Rice, Group Leader in Electricity Security at Pacific Northwest National Labs, will discuss a multi-year research project they've collaborated on, looking at the interactions across an organization during a cyber event (system operators, EMS support personnel, IT/Cyber analysts, trainers, management, etc.)
Dr. Warren Hearnes, Chief Data Scientist at Best Buy, will be discussing an emerging trend in human performance: the use of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning to better understand and predict human behavior. As an expert and leader in the field, we'll learn how to (and not to) use these advanced technologies, and how these tools can support continuous improvement.
It's impossible to read the news these days without some mention of Artificial Intelligence. As the complexity of our world increases, we see more and more technology playing roles in our daily lives, generating images and essays, and finding patterns that we humans would struggle to find. While these technologies have incredible promise, human performance concerns in how we build, use, and trust these systems are growing.
Jim Morrison will discuss the human performance aspects of ten maritime disasters – two you likely know and others you have probably never heard about -- keying on significant events that illustrate the evolution of a culture of safety in the maritime industry.
Chris Lazzaro, Chief Information Officer at Associated Electric Co-Operative, will talk about designing the physical space of Associated Electric's IT organization, to increase collaboration, enjoyment of work, and reduce risks and efficiencies in the organization.
Mike and James will conduct a review and summary of the Human Performance in Action Conference in Houston. They will still be on the conference site and any attendees on-site are welcome to join in person. We, along with some of the Knowledge Vine staff will be together for a thorough hot wash and review. We would love for you to come and hear some of the fresh insights and lessons learned as they come out of this week's events.
Sam Chanoski of Idaho National Laboratory and Mike will discuss our growing understanding of what happens in the real world when a cyber attack occurs; how groups of people have to collaborate (maybe for the first time), crossing teams, departments, organizations, knowledge bases, and vocabularies.
L.D. Holland of Duke Energy will be talking about a critical challenge facing today's workers in high-risk, cognitively-intense tasks. L.D. will explore how workers have to manage high-risk work while many other distractions, burdens, and challenges compete for their limited cognitive resources.
