Nuclear Safety: A Human Factors Perspective [Hardcover]

For many years, as a direct result of international governmental concern, the nuclear power industry has been at the forefront of industrial safety. This text represents a cross-disciplinary look at the human factors developments in this industry, with wider applications for the entire industrial sector. Technical, psychological and social aspects of industrial safety come under the scrutiny of scientists and engineers from an array of different backgrounds. The contributors are international safety scientists from the USA, Japan and Europe, and their chapters deal with a variety of issues: from theoretical aspects of applicable cultural models, to reviews of actual safety performance in specific plants.This text represents a cross-disciplinary look at the human factors developments in the nuclear power industry, with wider applications for the entire industrial sector. Technical, psychological and social aspects of industrial safety come under thePreface, Introduction, Part One. Nuclear power operations and their environment: culture and inter-organisational relations, 1. The social construction of safety, 2. Constructing organisational reliability: the problem of embeddedness and duality, 3. Finnish and Swedish practices in nuclear safety, 4. The cultural context of nuclear safety culture: a conceptual model and field study, 5. Implicit social norms in reactor control rooms, 6. Situational assessment of safety culture, 7. Advanced displays, cultural stereotypes and organisational characteristics of a control room, 8. From theory to practice - on the difficulties of improving human-factors learning from events in an inhospitable environment, 9. Inter-organisational development in the German nuclear safety system, Part Two. Nuclear power operations: organisational aspects, 10. Organisational factors and nuclear power plant safety, 11. Capturing the river: multilevel modelling of safety management, 12. The effects of leadership and group decision on accident preventil£