Collection and preparation of data bank for incident and failure reports and analysis of human error related incidents

Nuclear Power Safety Information Research Center (NUSIRC) of the Nuclear Power Engineering Test Center (NUPEC) has been established in 1984 to manage and utilize these materials relating to the incident/failure reports as the data bank, in which the information is classified by some 1,600 keywords and input to the computer data bank system. Incident/failure classification, statistical work on the database and utilization of data are being conducted based on this data bank. This paper briefly describes general outline of the data bank and statistical analytical results of incidents/failures due to human error with practical examples and further mentions on the information transmittal and exchange, effective methods for preventing reccurrence. (EG)