Re: [foxboro] Colour Blind Operators





I am colorblind (technically I am shade-blind, as I CAN tell the difference
if given the right lighting conditions and time to decipher), as were
several of my operators at the previous facility where I worked.  The worst
colors for me (and most of my fellows) are the darker reds, blacks, greens
and browns.  Yellow stands out like a sore thumb, as do most blues, from
other colors.  Orange is great too.  Shades of grey with black are
wonderful.

This subject is a frustration for us "bandwidth challenged" people, as most
others don't think about the fact that their coworkers might not be able to
see the emphasis they have put on text/graphics by using color.  Sometimes
it's funny, sometimes it's rude, sometimes you find a way to deal with it
mutually.

My past facility was a pre-merger Mobil site, and my coworkers we cognizant
of the fact I could not see the colors they could.  They took the extra
time to bold/italicize instead of coloring items for my benefit.  I
appreciated it, and we joked about it alot.  The end result was that we
worked well together.

I recently transferred to a heritage Exxon site, and the attitude is far
different.   My colorblindness, even when I bring it up, is ignored...
literally.  Subsequently, this lack of respect has made it hard to work at
the new site.  There are other isses involved, but this is a key indicator
of culture difference.

What am I trying to say?  Well, I commend you for at least taking the time
to look into possible solutions.  Your operators will thank you (even if
not to your face) and your workplace will be better for it.

So how do you find a fix that doesn't involve millions of man-hours of
retrofit?  I don't know a panacea, but I found grey-scaling to be very
helpful (I miss my b&w Macintosh!) Also make sure the differences in color
are significant enough for colorblind people (I remember on the version of
I/A we ran, there were two choices for blinking red.  One was obvious, the
other was not).

Again, the fact that you are looking into this is great, and I will be
interested in seeing what other input you get.

Kirk


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Kirk Carver
ExxonMobil Chemicals IS
Ph: 281-834-0565
Fax: 281-834-1937
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Does anybody on the list have experience of dealing with operators who have
difficulty discriminating between colours.  On our current project we have
a
number of Operators who have difficulty distinguishing between some
colours.
Ideally I would like to set up a different palette for each operator which
he could then load a the start of each shift.
I would be interested to here how others had solved this problem.



Dave Williams
Snr Power and Control Engineer
Shell UK Oil Products Limited
Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, PO Box 3, Ellesmere Port, South Wirral CH65
4HB, United Kingdom

Tel: +44(0)151350 4480 Fax: 4566 Other Tel: +44 (0)7799 657836
Email: dave.g.williams@xxxxxxxxx
Internet: http://www.shell.co.uk



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