Proceedings from Specialists Meeting on human performance in operational events

This conference on human performance in operational events is composed of 34 papers, grouped in 11 sessions. After an invited contribution on the human factor in the nuclear industry, the sessions are: session 1 (Operational events: Human performance in operational events - how to improve it?, Human performance research strategies for human performance, The development of a model of control room operator cognition), session 2 (Operational response: A study of the recovery from 120 events, Empirical study of the influence of organizational and procedural characteristics on team performance in the emergency situation using plant simulators, Cognitive skills and nuclear power plant operational decision making), session 3 (PSA for Probabilistic Safety Analysis: A sensitivity study of human errors in optimizing surveillance test interval (STI) and allowed outage time (AOT) of standby safety system, Analysis of Parks nuclear power plant personnel activity during safety related event sequences, An EDF project to update the Probabilistic Human Reliability Assessment PHRA methodology), session 4 (modelling with ATHEANA: Atheana, a technique for human error analysis, an overview of its methodological basis, Common elements on operational events across technologies, Results of nuclear power plant application of new technique for human error analysis), session 5 (Regulatory practice: US.NRC Research and analysis activities concerning human reliability assessment and human performance evaluation, Introduction of simulator-based examinations and its effects on the nuclear industry, Regulatory monitoring of human performance in PWR operation in France), session 6 (Simulation: Human performance in Bavarian nuclear power plant as a preventive element, Human performance event database, Crew situation awareness, diagnoses and performance in simulated nuclear power plant process disturbances), session 7 (Operator aids: Development of a plant navigation system, Operation system interfaces and their evolution in time, Operator performance comparison of two VDT-based alarm systems), session 8 (Operational events: analysis of human errors in Japanese nuclear power plant using J-HPES/JAESS, Human performance issues associated with the use of plant procedures in selected operational events, Some recent human performance at U.S. nuclear power plants), session 9 (Operational events and organizational factors: Management and organization influences in PRA, An assessment of operating events at U.S. commercial nuclear power plants, The psychological assessment in operational events), session 10 (Organizational factors: Human factor on Gravelines nuclear power plan, Control room tasks during refuelling in Ringhals 1 nuclear power plant, Error reduction in an operating environment) and session 11 (Operational response: Complexity rating of abnormal events and operator performance, Human factor issues in digital system design and implementation, Human performance at the Perry nuclear power plant)