ABSTRACT
This chapter presents various important aspects of maintenance safety and human error in aviation and power plant maintenance. Generally, during the design phase of an engineering equipment/system, emphasis is placed on designing the safety of the equipment/system rather than on the safety of personnel such as maintainers and operators. In power plants, maintenance is an important activity, and it consumes a significant sum of money spent on power generation. In the causation of power generation safety-related incidents, human error in maintenance has been found to be an important factor Error-cause removal program(ECRP) was developed to reduce the occurrence of human error to some tolerable level in production operations. The maintenance personnel performance simulation (MAPPS) model was developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to provide estimates of nuclear power plants (NPP) maintenance workforce performance measures, and it is a computerized, stochastic, task-oriented human behavioral model.
