Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for evaluating and ranking personnel within an organization for performance and value. The organization includes a plurality of hierarchy levels based on the management structure of the organization and a plurality of workgroups. Each workgroup includes an evaluator and a plurality of evaluatees. An attribute data set comprising subjective scores for each evaluates for a plurality of attributes is created for each workgroup. An evaluator curve is calculated from the attribute data set for each evaluator which accounts for each evaluators inclinations and style. A hierarchy behavior curve is calculated from each evaluator curve in each hierarchy level which accounts for the inclinations and style of each hierarchy level. The attribute data set, evaluator curve data, hierarchy behavior curve data, adjustment modulus, raw scores, and/or adjusted scores may be recorded and stored on a computer readable medium for use with a computer.

Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for evaluating and ranking personnel within an organization for performance and value. The organization includes a plurality of hierarchy levels based on the management structure of the organization and a plurality of workgroups. Each workgroup includes an evaluator and a plurality of evaluatees. An attribute data set comprising subjective scores for each evaluates for a plurality of attributes is created for each workgroup. An evaluator curve is calculated from the attribute data set for each evaluator which accounts for each evaluators inclinations and style. A hierarchy behavior curve is calculated from each evaluator curve in each hierarchy level which accounts for the inclinations and style of each hierarchy level. The attribute data set, evaluator curve data, hierarchy behavior curve data, adjustment modulus, raw scores, and/or adjusted scores may be recorded and stored on a computer readable medium for use with a computer.

Abstract: At least some of the illustrative embodiments are a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to receive drilling rig safety barrier data based on conditions of safety barriers in one or more drilling rigs. The one or more processors are further caused to identify, based on the drilling rig of safety barrier data, an impending invalidation of at least one of the safety barriers. The one or more processors are further caused to identify, based on the impending invalidation, one or more profiles for alert, and output, based on the one or more profiles, an alert of impending safety barrier invalidation.

Abstract: The high-voltage switching device can be used in at least one installation position and has metallic encapsulation (10). It contains a switching gap (4) and a particle trap (1) for holding foreign body particles (2), and is characterized in that in the at least one installation position, the particle trap (1) is arranged vertically underneath the switching gap (4), and in that, in the at least one installation position, an isolator part (8) is provided, which has a surface (8a) that is aligned essentially horizontally and faces the interior of the high-voltage switching device, with a metallic wall (9), which is higher than the particle trap (1; 1?), being arranged between the isolator part (8) and the particle trap (1; 1?). The particle trap (1) preferably has a viewing window (3). If the high-voltage switching device is a disconnector, this viewing window (3) may be identical to the viewing window (3) for visual access to the visible disconnecting gap (4) of the disconnector.