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ESTIMATING THE OPERATOR'S PERFORMANCE TIME OF EMERGENCY PROCEDURAL TASKS BASED ON A TASK COMPLEXITY MEASURE

  • Jung, Won-Dea (Integrated Safety Assessment Dept. Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Park, Jin-Kyun (Integrated Safety Assessment Dept. Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
  • Received : 2011.11.29
  • Accepted : 2012.02.27
  • Published : 2012.05.25
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Abstract

It is important to understand the amount of time required to execute an emergency procedural task in a high-stress situation for managing human performance under emergencies in a nuclear power plant. However, the time to execute an emergency procedural task is highly dependent upon expert judgment due to the lack of actual data. This paper proposes an analytical method to estimate the operator's performance time (OPT) of a procedural task, which is based on a measure of the task complexity (TACOM). The proposed method for estimating an OPT is an equation that uses the TACOM as a variable, and the OPT of a procedural task can be calculated if its relevant TACOM score is available. The validity of the proposed equation is demonstrated by comparing the estimated OPTs with the observed OPTs for emergency procedural tasks in a steam generator tube rupture scenario.

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