Review of advanced control rooms: Methodological considerations for the use of HFE guidelines

Conference · Tue Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:10127700

O`Hara, J M

Control rooms for advanced nuclear power plants use advanced human-system interface (HSI) technologies that may have significant implications for plant safety in that they will affect the operator`s overall role in the system and the ways in which operators interact with the system. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reviews HSIs to ensure that they are designed to accepted human factors engineering (HFE) principles. The principal review guidance, however, is more than ten-years old (US NRC, 1981). Accordingly, an Advanced HSI Design Review Guideline (DRG) was developed to provide criteria for these reviews. The DRG contains seven major sections: Information Display, User-System Interaction, Process Control and Input Devices, Alarms, Analysis and Decision Aids, Inter-Personnel Communication, and Workplace Design (see O`Hara & Brown, 1993). The purpose of this paper is to describe the methodology for DRG use.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 10127700
• Report Number(s): BNL-NUREG--49996; CONF-940602--4; ON: DE94007172
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS
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