Research activities in the field of human factors: Evaluation and prospects
The industrial systems are sociotechnical i.e., conceived, directed, checked, run, and repaired by individuals belonging to structured organizations for either individual or group work. Hence, a better understanding of how their behavior, competences, and know-how is a must. At the DER and ESF department human factors group is given the mission to enlarge, through a pluridisciplinary approach, the knowledge of human factors in complex systems. Human interventions are analyzed both for their positive aspects (competences and know-how to retrieve complex situations) and their negative aspects (human weaknesses). For safety reasons such analyses are mainly directed toward the nuclear plant operators, considered individually (intervening of one operator) or as a team (group behavior). The aims of the studies on human factors are various, and such studies justify the research in this field. They make it possible, through a better consideration of the variables specific to individuals, to bring to the enterprise means for: (1) increasing reliability and helping performance, (2) improving the adjustment of work demands to the real environment, and (3) creating a better energy between the individual and his/her enterprise. The variables specific to human factors that keep developing thus the perspectives for research, in this field, are to recenter and redefine the undertaken studies.
- OSTI ID:
- 5433225
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-881011-; CODEN: TANSA; TRN: 89-031502
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA), Vol. 57; Conference: Joint meeting of the European Nuclear Society and the American Nuclear Society, Washington, DC (USA), 30 Oct - 4 Nov 1988; ISSN 0003-018X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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