Human Factors in the Nuclear Industry. A Systemic Approach to Safety. Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy

Table of Contents

Part I: Historical accounts and current perspectives1. Human factors in nuclear power: Reflections from 50 years in Finland2. Applying Human Factors in nuclear industry people as a presence of positive capacity3. From classical Human Factors towards a system view experiences from the Human Factors nuclear field in Sweden4. Systems thinking applied to safety culture approach in Finland

Part II: Practices and tools to support team performance5. Reflective simulator debriefings for resilient power plant operations6. Human performance tools as a part of programmatic human performance improvement7. Multitasking and interruption management in control room operator work8. Team performance, communication and shared situational awareness control room resource management (CCRM) in the nuclear industry

Part III: Means and methods to facilitate organizational learning9. Learning from operational events on organisational level findings from Finnish nuclear power industry10. Improving organizational practices11. Learning from emergency exercises through systematic debriefing12. Towards learning organization practices in nuclear power plants

Part IV: Insights and visions for inter-organizational cooperation13. The urgent need to learn from Fukushima nuclear power accident from reactive to proactive through a systemic approach to safety14. An institutional perspective on systemic approach to safety in a project context15. Assessing the goodness of the concept of institutional strength-in-depth16. Utilizing design thinking for renewal of safety management practices in the nuclear industry

Authors

Anna-Maria Teperi Chief Researcher, Occupational Safety, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), Finland. Docent, Tampere University (Human Factors in Safety Management).. Dr. Anna-Maria Teperi is a Chief Researcher at the unit of Occupational Safety in Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) in Finland. She is a docent at Tampere University, with the field of Human Factors (HF) in Safety Management. She has 20 years of experience in research and implementation of HF to safety management systems at safety critical fields such as air navigation services, nuclear industry and railway. She holds a PhD from Helsinki University Behavioral Sciences and is licentiate in work and organization psychology from University of Helsinki, Master's degree in psychology from University of Tampere and pedagogical qualifications from the Helsinki Business Polytechnic. Previously, she worked as a head psychologist and development manager in Occupational Health Centre in City of Helsinki, acted as a chair of Nuclear Safety Committee at License Applicant and a reference group member at the Finnish Research Programme on Nuclear Power Plant Safety. She has also acted as a HF expert for Finnish Accident Investigation Board. Nadezhda Gotcheva Research Team Leader, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.. Dr. Nadezhda Gotcheva is a Research Team Leader of 'Safety in complex sociotechnical systems' team in VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. She holds a PhD from Tampere University of Technology (currently: Tampere University), Finland, an MBA from joint master's program of Erasmus University Rotterdam and Sofia University, and a Master's degree in organizational and clinical psychology from Sofia University, Bulgaria. Her expertise is in organizational and institutional factors in safety-critical organizations, currently focusing on safety culture evaluation and development in the nuclear power industry and management, leadership and governance for safety in complex inter-organizational project networks. Dr. Gotcheva has contributed to development of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) documents on Continuous Improvement of Safety Culture and revisions of IAEA's Safety Culture Continuous Improvement Plan (SCCIP). She is a certified Foresight Practitioner (Institute for the Future, USA) and Human Systems Dynamics Professional (HSD Institute, USA).