WRITING THE FUTURE: THE PROCEDURE WRITER’S PERSPECTIVE ON AUTHORING DYNAMIC PROCEDURES

摘要

As the nuclear industry begins to move into the digital age, multiple concerns have beenbrought up regarding the implications to field workers, such as auxiliary operators and maintenancetechnicians, transitioning to a modern work process. Multiple research efforts have been focused onjust that, however there are several roles at a nuclear plant aside from field workers that must beconsidered. One of these roles is the procedure writer. Procedure writers participate in a completelymanual paper procedure process. Though they might author procedures on a computer, the momentthey complete a revision, the process becomes manual and labor-intensive. The majority ofbottlenecks associated with a manual, paper process could be resolved by transitioning to a digitalprocess. In contrast to what many seem to believe, procedure writers are not opposed to a digitalprocess transition. This is not to suggest they are without concern, but their overall perspective errson the side of taking advantage of an opportunity to improve their current process. This can only bedone if procedure writers are involved early on in the design and development process. That way,potential concerns can be addressed and feedback regarding functional and design requirements canbe incorporated into the design of the tool during the development phase.