Integrated Design Environment for Human Performance and Human Reliability Analysis

Work over the last few years at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) has included a major focus on applying human performance and human reliability knowledge and methods as an integral element of system design and development. This work has been pursued in programs in a wide variety of technical domains, beginning with nuclear power plant operations. Since the mid-1980's the laboratory has transferred the methods and tools developed in the nuclear domain to military weapons systems and aircraft, offshore oil and shipping operations, and commercial aviation operations and aircraft design. Through these diverse applications the laboratory has developed an integrated approach and framework for application of human performance analysis, human reliability analysis (HRA), operational data analysis, and simulation studies of human performance to the design and development of complex systems. This approach was recently tested in the NASA Advanced Concepts Program (open quotes)Structured Human Error Analysis for Aircraft Design.(close quotes) This program resulted in the prototype software tool THEA (Tool for Human Error Analysis) for incorporating human error analysis in the design of commercial aircraft, focusing on airplane maintenance tasks. Current effort is directed toward applying this framework to the development of advanced Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems as part of NASA's Advanced Air Transportation Technologies (AATT) program. This paper summarizes the approach, describes recent and current applications in commercial aviation, and provides perspectives on how the approach could be utilized in the nuclear power industry.

• Record URL:
  https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/15000/15100/15102/DE97052962.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Idaho National Laboratory

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  Idaho Falls, ID  United States  83402-1509

  Department of Energy

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• Authors:
  • Nelson, William R
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 14p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Air transportation; Air transportation policy; Airports; Error analysis; Human error; Human factors engineering; Human machine systems; Traffic control
• Geographic Terms: Idaho
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01103169
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: NTL, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 24 2008 7:45AM