Nuclear and Conventional Power Generation Industries

Procedures
Human Reliability Assessment
Human Error and Human Factors Studies
Accident Investigation

Procedures

Electricity Supply Board of Ireland (Eire)

• Audit of procedures development process.
• Production of procedures for auxiliary power plant equipment.

Institute of Nuclear Systems Safety (Japan)

• Evaluation of emergency operating procedures.
• Development of guidelines for computerisation of procedures.
• Development of systems for automatic generation of procedures.
• Human Interaction with Agent-based Emergency Operating Procedures.

International Atomic Energy Agency (Austria)

• Development of guidelines for computer assisted decision aids for control room operators.
• Survey of the use of emergency operating procedures in nuclear accidents.

Scottish Nuclear plc

• Evaluation of presentation of job instructions.
• Evaluation of quality of job maintenance instructions.

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Human Reliability Assessments

Atomic Industrial Forum (USA)

• Quantification of operator actions in nuclear power plant accidents involving degraded cores.

Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA) (for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

• Development of the Success Likelihood Index Methodology (SLIM) for human reliability assessment.

Committee for Safety in Nuclear Installations, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (France)

• Preparation of a handbook section on human reliability assessment.

Computer Software Development Company (Japan)

• Provision of software and training services for the assessment and prediction of human reliability.

Mitsubishi Atomic Power (Japan)

• Analysis of the human reliability aspects of shut-down PSA's.

Rolls Royce and Associates

• Assessment of the use of the Success Likelihood Index Methodology (SLIM) in marine nuclear operations.

Westinghouse Corporation (USA)

• Research on the application of cognitive modelling to Probabilistic Risk Assessment of nuclear power plants.
• Provision of training in human reliability assessment.
• Provision of software tools for human reliability assessment.

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

• Evaluation of approaches for qualitatively modelling human errors for probabilistic risk assessment.

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Human Error and Human Factors Studies

Electric Power Research Institute (USA)

• Analysis of Nuclear Power Plant Significant Event Reports to determine the root causes of human errors causing dependent failures.

Central Electricity Generating Board

• Design of displays for grid control centres.
• Evaluation of the operation of Pulverised fuel mills in a coal fired power station.
• Analysis of operators' diagnostic strategies in a coal fired power station.

Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industries (Japan)

• Review of research on team performance under stress.

Directorate for Research and Development (European Union)

• The use of simulators for human factors research in the nuclear industry.
• Survey of modelling approaches for the human operator in Major Hazard Systems.

Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (USA)

• Design of screening forms for determining categories of operator error in nuclear power operations.
• Evaluation of human performance monitoring schemes including the Human Performance Evaluation System (HPES).
• Application of the Success Likelihood Index Methodology (SLIM) in sequence risk assessment analysis.

International Atomic Energy Agency (Austria)

• Participation in technical committees on experience with simulator training for emergency conditions.
• Participation in technical committees on Human Error Probabilities.

Japan Atomic Energy Research Centre

• Review of cognitive modelling approaches relevant to operator performance.

Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute

• Development of a specification for a human factors test facility for advanced control rooms.
• Development of systems and methodologies to collect data on, and analyse, human error data within nuclear power plants.
• Reviews of models of human performance.

Nuclear Power Engineering and Test Centre (NUPEC) (Japan)

• Review of effects of stress on decision making and problem solving in emergencies.
• Development of a method for collecting human performance data from simulators.
• Development of a human failure prevention model.

TUV (West Germany)

• Analysis of human error data from simulated nuclear power plant emergencies using the Generic Error Modelling System.

Scottish Nuclear plc

• Assessment of safety culture.

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

• Development of a model for the mental processing involved during data interpretation in reactor pressure vessel inspection.
• Development of a prototype system to aid engineers in identifying decision making errors in abnormal scenarios in nuclear power plants.
• Identification and analysis of factors which influence human error in non-destructive testing.
• A review and evaluation of the Shift Technical Advisor concept in nuclear power plant operation.

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Accident Investigation

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA)

• Application of the Influence Diagram Technique for assessing human actions in Severe Accident Sequences.
• Cognitive task analysis for degraded core sequences.

Scottish Nuclear plc

• Review of accident reporting system.

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