TY - GEN
T1 - On the Use of Microworlds for an Error Seeding Method to Support Human Error Analysis
AU - Ulrich, Thomas A.
AU - Boring, Ronald L.
AU - Lew, Roger
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - The field of human reliability analysis (HRA) has matured significantly since its original conception in nuclear safety. However, the field of HRA must be advanced in order to catch up with the advances in the probabilistic safety analysis field to support more accurate quantification of plant risk. This paper examines the Rancor microworld as an HRA data collection tool designed to quickly administer and gather human performance data to support quantitative models of human error. An error seeding method formed the basis of the simulation design to capture human error in response to routine and abnormal operations. The rationale behind a simplified simulator, designing experiments and developing scenarios is described. Furthermore, the results of a task analysis is presented, which establishes a basis of comparison against existing data collections performed with full scope simulator studies with data collected from the Rancor microworld.
AB - The field of human reliability analysis (HRA) has matured significantly since its original conception in nuclear safety. However, the field of HRA must be advanced in order to catch up with the advances in the probabilistic safety analysis field to support more accurate quantification of plant risk. This paper examines the Rancor microworld as an HRA data collection tool designed to quickly administer and gather human performance data to support quantitative models of human error. An error seeding method formed the basis of the simulation design to capture human error in response to routine and abnormal operations. The rationale behind a simplified simulator, designing experiments and developing scenarios is described. Furthermore, the results of a task analysis is presented, which establishes a basis of comparison against existing data collections performed with full scope simulator studies with data collected from the Rancor microworld.
KW - data collection
KW - human reliability analysis
KW - microworld simulator
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85079317596
U2 - 10.1109/RWS47064.2019.8971969
DO - 10.1109/RWS47064.2019.8971969
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85079317596
T3 - Proceedings - 2019 Resilience Week, RWS 2019
SP - 242
EP - 246
BT - Proceedings - 2019 Resilience Week, RWS 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 Resilience Week, RWS 2019
Y2 - 4 November 2019 through 7 November 2019
ER -