Nuclear Safety | A Human Factors Perspective | Jyuji Misumi, Rainer Mi

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ABSTRACT

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |1 pages

PART ONE Nuclear power operations and their environment: culture and inter-organisational relations

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|22 pages

The social construction of safety

chapter 2|28 pages

Constructing organisational reliability: the problem of embeddedness and duality

chapter 3|13 pages

Finnish and Swedish practices in nuclear safety

chapter 4|17 pages

The cultural context of nuclear safety culture: a conceptual model and field study

chapter 5|8 pages

Implicit social norms in reactor control rooms

chapter 6|14 pages

Situational assessment of safety culture

chapter 7|17 pages

Advanced displays, cultural stereotypes and organisational characteristics of a control room

chapter 8|14 pages

From theory to practice—on the difficulties of improving human-factors learning from events in an inhospitable environment

chapter 9|16 pages

Inter-organisational development in the German nuclear safety system

part |1 pages

PART TWO Nuclear power operations: organisational aspects

chapter |1 pages

Introduction

chapter 10|17 pages

Organisational factors and nuclear power plant safety

chapter 11|23 pages

Capturing the river: multilevel modelling of safety management1

chapter 12|17 pages

The effects of leadership and group decision on accident prevention

chapter 13|12 pages

Are we casting the net too widely in our search for the factors contributing to errors and accidents?

part |1 pages

PART THREE Group and individual performance

chapter |1 pages

Introduction

chapter 4|8 pages

TEEN Human performance indicators

chapter 15|24 pages

Predicting human error probabilities from the ability requirements of jobs in nuclear power plants

chapter 6|14 pages

TEEN Self-assessment and learning in nuclear power plant simulation training

chapter 17|14 pages

Knowledge acquisition through repeated theoretical and practical training

part |1 pages

PART FOUR Learning from experience

chapter |1 pages

Introduction

chapter 18|18 pages

Ab outline of human factors studies conducted by the Japanese electric power industry

chapter 19|13 pages

Human errors in Japanese nuclear power plants: a review of 25 years1

chapter 20|32 pages

Human factors as revealed by the use of natural language in near-incidents at nuclear power plants

chapter |10 pages

CHPATER TWENTY-ONE Human factors in nuclear power plant maintenance— an empirical study1

chapter 22|8 pages

A review of human error prevention activities at Kansai Electric's nuclear power stations