ABSTRACT
Human factors play an important role in power plant maintenance because improving the maintainability design of power plant facilities, systems, and equipment with respect to human factors helps to increase, directly or indirectly, plant productivity, availability, and safety. For example, past experiences indicate that many plant outages have been either caused or prolonged by human factors problems associated with maintenance. It is estimated that the loss of plant power generation costs at least $500,000 to $750,000 per day [1].
