In a week or two I’m heading up to the Trondheim area to do a field study at a industrial facility, to investigate how the shift team go about their work. It is often said that an control room operator’s job is 99% boredom, 1% sheer terror. In this return visit, I hope to be a little closer to the 1% end of spectrum, because this time the whole plant is in a shutdown. During a planned shutdown, a huge backlog of maintenance, upgrades and repairs are carried out that cannot be done while the plant is running. Thus the whole place is a hive of activity and will be a lot more hectic than normal operating conditions.
It’s also in a very pretty area of Norway.
