Influence of organizational factors on performance reliability

Technical Report · Sat Nov 30 23:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:6030534

Haber, S B; O'Brien, J N; Metlay, D S; Crouch, D A ^[1]

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1. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)

This is the first volume of a two-volume report. Volume 2 will be published at a later date. This report presents the results of a research project conducted by Brookhaven National Laboratory for the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. The purpose of the project was to develop a general methodology to be use in the assessment of the organizational factors which affect performance reliability (safety) in a nuclear power plant. The research described in this report includes the development of the Nuclear Organization and Management Analysis Concept (GNOMIC). This concept characterizes the organizational factors that impact safety performance in a nuclear power plant and identifies some methods for systematically measuring and analyzing the influence of these factors on safety performance. This report is divided into two parts; Part 1 presents an overview of the development of the methodology, while Part 2 provides more details and a technical analysis of the methodological development. Specifically, the results of two demonstration studies, the feasibility of the methodology, and a specific applications for which the methodology was developed are presented.

• Research Organization: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States). Div. of Systems Research; Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: NRC; Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6030534
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CR-5538-Vol.1; BNL-NUREG--52301-Vol.1; ON: TI92005361
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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