INTEGRATING HUMAN PERFORMANCE INTO TECHNOLOGY

摘要

The nuclear industry has made significant gains in safety by implementing Human Performance tools. However, escalating costs associated with implementing tools prove to be as prohibitive as increased resistance by personnel to accept yet another tool. In this research collaboration between Duke Energy and Idaho National Laboratory, sponsored by the Department of Energy, the INL research team proposes a new approach to improve Human Performance in order to regain productivity, efficiency, and acceptance. Researchers are exploring ways to increase efficiency of the process while reducing proclivity to human error. Focus is placed on utilization of technical solutions to provide "Real Time Truth" regarding plant and work status to all relevant stakeholders. The researchers propose carrying out component identification with barcode scanning and the ability to communicate operational or maintenance information through capturing and streaming audio and video data. Scanning of a component's barcode will reduce the risk of operating the wrong component. Streaming audio and video to a remote location enables concurrent verification while the evolution is taking place, reducing the time and dose needed to complete the evolution. Though it may imply a common sense approach to use the described technology to improve human performance it has not - to the authors' knowledge - been implemented in the commercial nuclear industry. In truth, very little research regarding the use of digital technology has been conducted to date. Two series of demonstrations have been conducted at the Catawba Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in August 2011 and February 2012.