Human factors approach for evaluation and redesign of human–system interfaces of a nuclear power plant simulator

Carvalho, Paulo Cezar Pinto; Santos, Isaac L. dos; Gomes, José Orlando; Borges, Marcos R. S.; Guerlain, Stephanie

doi:10.1016/j.displa.2007.08.010

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“…In 1970 The advanced research regarding safety of industrial work site has used human engineering, psychological, health and sanitary, system engineering, and social approaches (Carvalho et al, 2008;Larson, Pousette, & Törner, 2008;Parker et al, 2003;Yi, Kim, Kim, & Koo, 2012;Zohar, 2008). …”

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The Optimization on Safety Color of Work Clothing Based on Functional Color-arrangement Planning and Field Test

Park¹

2014

Fashion business

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This study intended to propose a guideline designed to secure safety by developing a functional color design for the color of the ordinary working clothes worn in the actual industrial settings of the machine industry in national industrial complexes in Korea. For this, a total of 6 sets of actual working clothes were produced for test, using 2-color arrangements with blue, of varying brightness and chroma for top and bottom, in relation to the visibility proven in preceding studies and evaluated in the machine industry. Blue was suggested the best proper color for machine industry by previous studies. For the material of working clothes, a total of 111 swatches were collected from the Dongdaemoon Fabric Market, and they were analyzed for color values. A total of 6 materials were used to produce working clothes for testing, which represented high brightness, medium brightness, low brightness, high chroma, medium chroma, and low chroma . Clothes were tried at the industrial settings for machine industry in a national industrial complex located in Gyeongsangnam-do and the expert satisfaction evaluation was performed based on items related with safety. As a result, higher satisfaction was shown when the brightness difference of top and bottom clothes was greater, and for chroma, relatively higher satisfaction appeared when the chroma of both top and bottom clothes was high. To secure satisfaction for both brightness and chroma, it is possible to deduce that the 2-color arrangement using the strong tone with high brightness and high chroma and the dark tone with somewhat low brightness and high chroma would be effective. Top and bottom clothes in the same color with high chroma had high visibility but had somewhat low evaluation for harmonious arrangements. This indicated that the arrangement of vivid colors for top-bottom clothes is inappropriate.

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The Optimization on Safety Color of Work Clothing Based on Functional Color-arrangement Planning and Field Test

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2014

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“…According to Carvalho et al (2008), the operation of nuclear plants is characterized by a large amount of boredom, due to the surveillance requirements and the long-term control strategies needed during continuous normal operation, and a small amount of high stimulation, due to the need to quickly and effectively handle alarm situations. Both boredom (low mental workload) and stimulation (high mental workload) can affect mental performance and have a negative effect on system safety and operation (Hwang et al, 2008).…”

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Job requirements for control room jobs in nuclear power plants

2011

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Together with other variables, human factors play a central role in the safety of highly complex technical systems such as nuclear power plants. However, despite the unquestionable importance of human factors, little information is available about relevant ability requirements for control room jobs in nuclear power plants. The purpose of this study was to close this gap, to provide specific information about ability requirements for such jobs, and to evaluate how several hypothesized factors (ability domain, type of job, and operating condition) contribute to ability requirements. We found that high levels of cognitive as well as social/interpersonal abilities are needed for control room jobs, and that ability requirements increase with the hierarchical job level for these two domains but decrease for psychomotor/physical abilities and for sensory/perceptual abilities. Furthermore, specifically concerning jobs with a leadership function, we found some differences between incidents and normal operations regarding requirements for social/interpersonal abilities, indicating that the former require a different leadership style than the latter. Together with other variables, human factors play a central role in the safety of highly complex technical systems such as nuclear power plants. However, despite the unquestionable importance of human factors, little information is available about relevant ability requirements for control room jobs in nuclear power plants. The purpose of this study was to close this gap, to provide specific information about ability requirements for such jobs, and to evaluate how several hypothesized factors (ability domain, type of jobs, and operating conditions) contribute to ability requirements. We found that high levels of cognitive as well as social/interpersonal abilities are needed for control room jobs, and that ability requirements increase with the hierarchical job level for these two domains but decrease for psychomotor/physical abilities and for sensory/perceptual abilities. Furthermore, specifically concerning jobs with a leadership function, we found some differences between incidents and normal operations regarding requirements for social/interpersonal abilities, indicating that the former require a different leadership style than the latter.

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“…Cognitive task analysis methods have previously been used in other process industries (e.g. nuclear power plants; Carvalho, dos Santos, Gomes, Borges & Guerlain, 2008) to examine expertise so as to develop interventions that M A N U S C R I P T…”

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How to recognise a kick: A cognitive task analysis of drillers’ situation awareness during well operations

Roberts

Flin

Cleland

2016

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

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Human factors approach for evaluation and redesign of human–system interfaces of a nuclear power plant simulator

Cited by 88 publications

References 14 publications

The Optimization on Safety Color of Work Clothing Based on Functional Color-arrangement Planning and Field Test

The Optimization on Safety Color of Work Clothing Based on Functional Color-arrangement Planning and Field Test

Job requirements for control room jobs in nuclear power plants

How to recognise a kick: A cognitive task analysis of drillers’ situation awareness during well operations

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