1st Edition

A Guide To Practical Human Reliability Assessment

By B. Kirwan Copyright 1994
600 Pages
by CRC Press

587 Pages
by CRC Press

587 Pages
by CRC Press

Human error is here to stay. This perhaps obvious statement has a profound implication for society when faced with the types of hazardous system accidents that have occurred over the past three decades. Such accidents have been strongly influenced by human error, yet many system designs in existence or being planned and built do not take human error into consideration.; "A Guide to Practical Human... Read more

Introduction

How to Use This Book

Scope

Human Reliability Assessment in Risk Assessment

The HRA Process

Problem definition

Task analysis

Human-error analysis

Representation issues in HRA

Human-error quantification

Impact assessment

Error reduction analysis

Quality assurance and documentation

Problem definition revisited

A practitioner’s framework

Management and organisational boundaries in HRA

Future directions in HRA

Conclusions

Appendix I: Human-Error Forms in Accidents

Appendix II: Human-Error Data

Appendix III: Validation of HRQ Techniques

Appendix IV: Human Factors Checklist

Appendix V: Error Mechanisms and Error Reduction Mechanisms

Appendix VI: Case Studies

References

Acronyms

Index

Biography

B. Kirwan