Jyuji Misumi, Rainer Miller, Bernhard Wilpert

Nuclear Safety (eBook, PDF)

A Human Factors Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

For many years, as a direct result of international governmental concern, the nuclear power industry has been at the forefront of industrial safety. This text represents a cross-disciplinary look at the human factors developments in this industry, with wider applications for the entire industrial sector. Technical, psychological and social aspects

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135735098
• Artikelnr.: 57589252

Autorenporträt

Jyuyi Misumi, Rainer Miller and Bernhard Wilpert

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part One. Nuclear power operations and their environment: culture and inter-organisational relations
1. The social construction of safety
2. Constructing organisational reliability: the problem of embeddedness and duality
3. Finnish and Swedish practices in nuclear safety
4. The cultural context of nuclear safety culture: a conceptual model and field study
5. Implicit social norms in reactor control rooms
6. Situational assessment of safety culture
7. Advanced displays
cultural stereotypes and organisational characteristics of a control room
8. From theory to practice - on the difficulties of improving human-factors learning from events in an inhospitable environment
9. Inter-organisational development in the German nuclear safety system
Part Two. Nuclear power operations: organisational aspects
10. Organisational factors and nuclear power plant safety
11. Capturing the river: multilevel modelling of safety management
12. The effects of leadership and group decision on accident prevention
13. Are we casting the net too widely in our search for the factors contributing to errors and accidents?
Part Three. Group and individual performance
14. Human performance indicators
15. Predicting human error probabilities from the ability requirements of jobs in nuclear power plants
16. Self-assessment and learning in nuclear power plant simulation training
17. Knowledge acquisition through repeated theoretical and practical training
Part Four. Learning from experience
18. An outline of human factors studies conducted by the Japanese electric power industry
19. Human errors in Japanese nuclear power plants: a review of 25 years
20. Human factors as revealed by the use of natural language in near-incidents at nuclear power plants
21. Human factors in nuclear power plant maintenance - an empirical study
22. A review of human error prevention activities at Kansai Electric's nuclear power stations
Index