There is a growing recognition amongst those involved with the creation and distribution of nuclear power of the value and positive impact of ergonomics, recognition heightened by the realization that safety incidents are rarely the result of purely technical failure. This work provides insights into plant design, performance shaping factors, the fostering of a safety culture, training, selection, alarm design, team performance and data collection.
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human reliability quantification techniques, priority item group, positive safety culture, high physical fidelity, total item group, movement compatibility, human reliability assessment, mean relative frequency, involving alarms, alarm handling, human error identification, ergonomic assessment, real operational environment, spatial compatibility, functional requirements analysis, alarm design, verification items, operational compatibility, human reliability analysis, detailed task analysis, operator behaviour, hierarchical task analysis, human error probabilities, confectionery company, missed alarms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Three Mile Island, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Annual Meeting, Cambridge University Press, Advisory Committee, Department of Psychology, Santa Monica, Electric Power Research Institute, Journal of Applied Psychology, Safety of Nuclear Installations, Academic Press, Annual Conference, Applied Ergonomics, Contemporary Ergonomics, International Atomic Energy Authority, International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group, Journal of Occupational Psychology, Policy Statement, Saint Jean, University of Southampton, Aston University, Basic Books, Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, Ellis Horwood New!
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plenty of examples to show the consequences of the mismatch between human-technology systems: Zeebrugge, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Bhopal and Challenger. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
human reliability quantification techniques, priority item group, positive safety culture, high physical fidelity, total item group, movement compatibility, human reliability assessment, mean relative frequency, involving alarms, alarm handling, human error identification, ergonomic assessment, real operational environment, spatial compatibility, functional requirements analysis, alarm design, verification items, operational compatibility, human reliability analysis, detailed task analysis, operator behaviour, hierarchical task analysis, human error probabilities, confectionery company, missed alarms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Three Mile Island, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Annual Meeting, Cambridge University Press, Advisory Committee, Department of Psychology, Santa Monica, Electric Power Research Institute, Journal of Applied Psychology, Safety of Nuclear Installations, Academic Press, Annual Conference, Applied Ergonomics, Contemporary Ergonomics, International Atomic Energy Authority, International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group, Journal of Occupational Psychology, Policy Statement, Saint Jean, University of Southampton, Aston University, Basic Books, Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, Ellis Horwood New!
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- Human Error by James Reason on 6 pages
- A Guide To Task Analysis: The Task Analysis Working Group by B Kirwan on 4 pages
- New Technology and Human Error (New Technologies and Work: A Wiley Series) by Jens Rasmussen on 4 pages
- Advances in Nuclear Science and Technology: Volume 22 (Advances in Nuclear Science & Technology) by Jeffery Lewins on page 138, page 140, and page 195
- Handbook of Human Factors by Gavriel Salvendy on page 12, page 35, and page 115
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- Contemporary Ergonomics by S.A. Robertson on page 67
- Engineering Safety: Fundamentals, Techniques, Applications (Series on Industrial and Systems Engineering) by B. S. Dhillon on page 127
- Front Panel: Designing Software for Embedded User Interfaces by Niall Murphy in Back Matter
- Human Factors in Alarm Design by Neville A. Stanton on page 117
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