ABSTRACT

A continually evolving discipline, human reliability assessment (HRA) has elements of controversy from the definition of terms to the application of appropriate methods for the representation of human failure probability. The idea that human error is a random event is falling out of favor and the concept that humans can be set up to fail or succeed

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|6 pages

Background

chapter 3|16 pages

Plant Safety and Risk

chapter 4|10 pages

4Chapter HRA Principles and Concepts

chapter 6|20 pages

6Chapter HRA Tools and Methods

chapter 7|20 pages

7Chapter HRA Methods: A Critique

chapter 14|10 pages

Discussion and Conclusions