Applying Human-performance Models to Designing and Evaluating Nuclear Power Plants: Review Guidance and Technical Basis

O’Hara, John M.

doi:10.2172/1013435

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“…This evaluation phase has perhaps also received the most attention in the regulatory procedures and guidelines under which the new system must be formally assessed before it can be commissioned. Conducting human factors 125 evaluations of safety-critical systems such as NPP control rooms is not a straightforward task to accomplish and thus demands methodical development efforts from the human factors community (Braarud & Strand, 2011;O'Hara, 2009;Savioja, 2014a;E. Simonsen, 2018).…”

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User involvement in design of a safety-critical operating panel system

Koskinen

Laarni

Bergroth

2022

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

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Section: Advancing Participatory Processes In Safety-critical System ...mentioning

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User involvement in design of a safety-critical operating panel system

Koskinen

Laarni

Bergroth

2022

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

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“…Revision 3 will be completed in 2011, and will provide updates for new research findings, e.g., concept of operations (O'Hara, Higgins, Brown & Fink, 2008), human performance models (O'Hara, 2009), automation (O'Hara & Higgins, 2010, and degraded instrumentation and control (I&C) (O'Hara, Gunther, & Martinez-Guridi 2010). In addition, modifications will be made to incorporate user feedback and lessons learned, and to clarify and consolidate existing content.…”

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Updating Human Factors Engineering Guidelines For Conducting Safety Reviews of Nuclear Power Plants

O’Hara¹,

Higgins²,

Fleger³

2011

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reviews the human factors engineering (HFE) programs of applicants for nuclear power plant construction permits, operating licenses, standard design certifications, and combined operating licenses. The purpose of these safety reviews is to help ensure that personnel performance and reliability are appropriately supported. Detailed design review procedures and guidance for the evaluations is provided in three key documents: the Standard Review Plan (NUREG-0800), the HFE Program Review Model (NUREG-0711), and the Human-System Interface Design Review Guidelines (NUREG-0700). These documents were last revised in 2007, 2004 and 2002, respectively. The NRC is committed to the periodic update and improvement of the guidance to ensure that it remains a stateof-the-art design evaluation tool. To this end, the NRC is updating its guidance to stay current with recent research on human performance, advances in HFE methods and tools, and new technology being employed in plant and control room design. This paper describes the role of HFE guidelines in the safety review process and the content of the key HFE guidelines used. Then we will present the methodology used to develop HFE guidance and update these documents, and describe the current status of the update program.

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“…In addition, Boring [29] explored the role of performance shaping factors across different stages of human reliability analysis. Hara [30] applied human performance models to simulate human behaviors and predict human performances in support of human reliability analysis.…”

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A Reliability-Based Mapping Scheme for Assessing System Operational Performance With Erroneous Human Behavior at NPPs

Liu

et al. 2019

IEEE Access

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In the paper we present a reliability-based mapping scheme for underlying erroneous human behavior recognition with the intention of retrospective operational audit and safety management in nuclear power plants. For implementing the reliability-based mapping scheme, a success-oriented GO-FLOW method is applied to model, quantify and identify the erroneous human behaviors and associated system configuration changes. The retrospective investigation of human error is illustrated with a simulated example case event of loss of dual residual heat removal pumps during the refueling outage of nuclear power plants. The case study shows that human-system configuration changes in multiple task sequences can be easily captured by GO-FLOW method for post-hoc reviewing analysis.INDEX TERMS Human error, operational audit, reliability mapping analysis, GO-FLOW, nuclear power plants.

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Applying Human-performance Models to Designing and Evaluating Nuclear Power Plants: Review Guidance and Technical Basis

Cited by 3 publications

References 31 publications

User involvement in design of a safety-critical operating panel system

User involvement in design of a safety-critical operating panel system

Updating Human Factors Engineering Guidelines For Conducting Safety Reviews of Nuclear Power Plants

A Reliability-Based Mapping Scheme for Assessing System Operational Performance With Erroneous Human Behavior at NPPs

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