Classification of alarm processing techniques and human performance issues

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:6588502

Kim, I S; O'Hara, J M

Human factors reviews indicate that conventional alarm systems based on the one sensor, one alarm approach, have many human engineering deficiencies, a paramount example being too many alarms during major disturbances. As an effort to resolve these deficiencies, various alarm processing systems have been developed using different techniques. To ensure their contribution to operational safety, the impacts of those systems on operating crew performance should be carefully evaluated. This paper briefly reviews some of the human factors research issues associated with alarm processing techniques and then discusses a framework with which to classify the techniques. The dimensions of this framework can be used to explore the effects of alarm processing systems on human performance.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USNRC; Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6588502
• Report Number(s): BNL-NUREG-48669; CONF-930401-16; ON: DE93012526
• Resource Relation: Conference: Meeting on nuclear plant instrumentation, control and man-machine interface technologies, Oak Ridge, TN (United States), 18-21 Apr 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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