Human Reliability, Error, and Human Factors in Power Generation
Human reliability, error, and human factors in the area of power generation have been receiving increasing attention in recent years. Each year billions of dollars are spent in the area of power generation to design, construct/manufacture, operate, and ma
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B. S. Dhillon
Human Reliability, Error, and Human Factors in Power Generation
Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
Series editor Hoang Pham, Piscataway, USA
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B. S. Dhillon
Human Reliability, Error, and Human Factors in Power Generation
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B. S. Dhillon Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Ottawa Ottawa Canada
ISSN 1614-7839 ISBN 978-3-319-04018-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-04019-6
ISSN 2196-999X (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-04019-6 (eBook)
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This book is affectionately dedicated to my granddaughter, Sianna
Preface
Each year billions of dollars are spent in the area of power generation to design, construct/manufacture, operate, and maintain various types of power systems around the globe. Many times such systems fail due to human error. For example, during the period 1990–1994 about 27 % of commercial nuclear power plants outages in the United States resulted from human error. Needless to say, human reliability, error, and human factors in the area of power generation have been receivi
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