Sustainability and reliability ensurance models for automated technological systems in chemical industry: systemic ergonomic approach
Journal: E3S Web of Conferences
Year: 2021

The paper considers accidents and potential hazards of the world chemical enterprises, and provides statistics of accidents and human casualties. The authors investigate harmful factors affecting the production process and a human-operator, showing the central role of a human in the technological process (both as a source of errors and as an active element that eliminates errors, failures and cyber attacks’ consequences). We essentially consider automated technological complex as a Human-Machine