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http://dx.doi.org/10.14346/JKOSOS.2013.28.1.158

A Study on the Methods for the Robust Job Stress Management for Nuclear Power Plant Workers using Response Surface Data Mining  

Lee, Yonghee (I&C / Human Factors Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Jang, Tong Il (I&C / Human Factors Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Lee, Yong Hee (I&C / Human Factors Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.28, no.1, 2013 , pp. 158-163 More about this Journal
Abstract
While job stress evaluations are reported in the recent surveys upon the nuclear power plants(NPPs), any significant advance in the types of questionnaires is not currently found. There are limitations to their usefulness as analytic tools for the management of safety resources in NPPs. Data mining(DM) has emerged as one of the key features for data computing and analysis to conduct a survey analysis. There are still limitations to its capability such as dimensionality associated with many survey questions and quality of information. Even though some survey methods may have significant advantages, often these methods do not provide enough evidence of causal relationships and the statistical inferences among a large number of input factors and responses. In order to address these limitations on the data computing and analysis capabilities, we propose an advanced procedure of survey analysis incorporating the DM method into a statistical analysis. The DM method can reduce dimensionality of risk factors, but DM method may not discuss the robustness of solutions, either by considering data preprocesses for outliers and missing values, or by considering uncontrollable noise factors. We propose three steps to address these limitations. The first step shows data mining with response surface method(RSM), to deal with specific situations by creating a new method called response surface data mining(RSDM). The second step follows the RSDM with detailed statistical relationships between the risk factors and the response of interest, and shows the demonstration the proposed RSDM can effectively find significant physical, psycho-social, and environmental risk factors by reducing the dimensionality with the process providing detailed statistical inferences. The final step suggest a robust stress management system which effectively manage job stress of the workers in NPPs as a part of a safety resource management using the surrogate variable concept.
Keywords
data mining; job stress; response surface methodology; surrogate variable;
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