Human Factors and Decision Making: Their Influence on Safety and Reliability

ISBN-13: 9789401071130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 276 str.

B. a. Sayers

Opis

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Spis treści

Human Factors in Safety.- Human Factors in the Process Industries.- Human Factors Considerations in the Safety Case for the Channel Tunnel Project.- Safety and Human Factors in Manned Space Flight Systems.- The Role of Technical Documentation for Maintenance Staff in the Safe Operation and Maintenance of Machine and Processes.- Allocation of Function Between Man and Programmable Electronic Systems in Safety-Related Applications.- Human Reliability Assessment.- Human Reliability Assessors Guide: An Overview.- A Comparative Evaluation of Five Human Reliability Assessment Techniques.- Human Factors Reliability Benchmark Exercise, Report of the SRD Participation.- The Application of the Combined THERP/HCR Model in Human Reliability Assessment.- A Practical Application of Quantified Risk Analysis.- PROF a Computer Code for Prediction of Operator Failure Rate.- New Directions in Qualitative Modelling.- Human Factors in Management and Design.- Management Factors and System Safety.- Addressing Human Factors Issues in the Safe Design and Operation of Computer Controlled Process Systems.- Management in High Risk Industries.- Processor-Based Displays: The Flexible Control Panel.- A Human Factors Data-Base to Influence Safety and Reliability.- Decision Support Systems.- Modelling the Evacuation of the Public in the Event of Toxic Releases: A Decision Support Tool and Aid for Emergency Planning.- Designing Decision Support Systems for Human Error Reduction: The Need to Address Information Distortion.- Supporting Expert Judgement of Human Performance and Reliability.