Human Factors in the Nuclear Industry

Foreword
Anna-Maria Teperi and Nadezhda Gotcheva

Part I: Historical accounts and current perspectives
1. Human factors in nuclear power: Reflections from 50 years in Finland
Bjorn Wahlström
2. Applying Human Factors in nuclear industry - people as a presence of positive capacit
Anna-Maria Teperi
3. From classical Human Factors towards a system view – experiences from the Human Factors nuclear field in Sweden
Carl Rollenhagen
4. Systems thinking applied to safety culture approach in Finland
Nadezhda Gotcheva, Pia Oedewald and Marja Ylönen

Part II: Practices and tools to support team performance
5. Reflective simulator debriefings for resilient power plant operations
Mikael Wahlström, Timo Kuula, Laura Seppänen, Piia Rantanummi and Pekka Kettunen
6. Human performance tools as a part of programmatic human performance improvement
Kaupo Viitanen
7. Multitasking and interruption management in control room operator work
Jari Laarni
8. Team performance, communication and shared situational awareness - control room resource management (CCRM) in the nuclear industry
Matti Sorsa

Part III: Means and methods to facilitate organizational learning
9. Learning from operational events on organisational level - findings from Finnish nuclear power industry
Vuokko Puro, Henriikka Kannisto and Eero Lantto
10. Improving organizational practices
Krista Pahkin
11. Learning from emergency exercises through systematic debriefing
Marja Liinasuo
12. Towards learning organization – practices in nuclear power plants
Petri Koistinen

Part IV: Insights and visions for inter-organizational cooperation
13. The urgent need to learn from Fukushima nuclear power accident – from reactive to proactive through a systemic approach to safety
Monica Haage
14. An institutional perspective on systemic approach to safety in a project context
Nadezhda Gotcheva and Kirsi Aaltonen
15. Assessing the goodness of the concept of institutional strength-in-depth
Marja Ylönen
16. Utilizing design thinking for renewal of safety management practices in the nuclear industry
Anna-Maria Teperi, Nadezhda Gotcheva and Kirsi Aaltonen

Human Factors in the Nuclear Industry: A Systemic Approach to Safety presents the latest research and studies of human factors in the nuclear industry. It models and highlights scientific and technological foundations before providing practical examples of applications within the nuclear facility of human performance at an individual, group, organization, and system level. Editors Dr. Teperi and Dr. Gotcheva supply concrete models, tools and techniques based on research to provide the reader with knowledge of how to facilitate and support human performance in this dynamic and fast moving safety critical field.

Models and case studies are provided to add practical benefits for the reader to apply to their own projects, including user friendly state-of-the-art equipment, fluent work processes for information flow, functional control room resource management, and scope for competence and learning in the work place. This book will benefit nuclear researchers, safety experts, human factors professionals and power plant operators, as well as those with an interest in human factors outside of the nuclear field.

• Provides a comprehensive framework for human factors, considering not only the individual, but also the team, organizational and industrial levels
• Presents tried and tested tools and techniques based on research from the nuclear industry
• Includes models, examples and case studies of user-friendly equipment, fluent work processes and functional control room resource management

Nuclear engineers and professionals, particularly those focussing on safety and human factors; safety experts; nuclear power plant operators; Masters + level students and researchers of nuclear energy; nuclear consultants and managers; decision & policy makers in nuclear and non-nuclear facilities