Improving Human Performance for Safety and Operational Excellence - Mr. José Carlos Bruno

Title : Human Factors - Improving Human Performance for Safety and Operational Excellence in The Oil & Gas Industry
Presenter : Mr. José Carlos Bruno
Abstract:
The Oil and Gas industry, following other hazardous industries, has finally started to discuss the role of human factors in its operations, particularly in deep-water environments. Even though, most safety systems yet follow the traditional behavioral-based approach to prevent ‘human error,’ seen as the main cause of accidents. Unquestionably, this approach has brought the industry to an unprecedented safety level, making Oil and Gas a much safer industry today. However, being just ‘safe’ may be no longer sufficient to cope with the fast-growing complexity in a leading-edge technological industry.
This presentation brings distinctive paradigms that challenge this traditional view of human factors and its mismatch with the industry's highly-complex systems. Let us then embark on a journey to demystify most of the old paradigms, get to know a different approach from a systems perspective, and explore how human factors could help the Oil and Gas industry improve human performance for safety and operational excellence.
About Our Guest :
José Carlos Bruno is a senior drilling engineer with over 35 years in the Oil and Gas industry. Bruno’s experience includes several top management positions at Petrobras both in Brazil and overseas, mainly in offshore exploration projects around the world, including Africa, the Middle East, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and Australia. Back in Brazil in 2015, in a bold shift in his career, he decided to work as a human factors leader to help Petrobras and the industry to incorporate its principles and concepts into the traditional way of doing things. Bruno has a BE in Civil Engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil; a post-graduation degree in Petroleum Engineering at Petrobras University, Brazil; an executive MBA at INSEAD, France; and a Master's degree in Human Factors and System Safety at Lund University, Sweden. At the SPE, he works as the Director Communities-Liaison for the Human Factors Technical Section and has been recognized as a Distinguished Lecturer for this 2021/2022 season.