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Task Complexity as a Factor for Human Reliability Assessment

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Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management

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Context or Performance Shaping Factors are important elements of Human Reliability Assessment methods. This paper describes an approach to task complexity for process control, describes the concept as a context factor for human reliability, and report example of results on task complexity from a simulator experiment on human performance in accident operation.

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  1. Institute for Energy Technology, OECD Halden Reactor Project, Halden, Norway

    Per Øivind Braarud, Karin Laumann & Håkan Svengren

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  1. Per Øivind Braarud
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  1. TÜV Süddeutschland, Dudenstrasse 28, D-68167, Mannheim, Germany

    Cornelia Spitzer Dipl.-Math.

  2. Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (HSK), CH-5232, Villigen-HSK, Switzerland

    Ulrich Schmocker PhD

  3. Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), CH-5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

    Vinh N. Dang PhD

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Braarud, P.Ø., Laumann, K., Svengren, H. (2004). Task Complexity as a Factor for Human Reliability Assessment. In: Spitzer, C., Schmocker, U., Dang, V.N. (eds) Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-410-4_159

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