3.2.1 Development of a Sustainable Process for the Generation, Validation, and Application of Human Reliability Assessment within the Engineering Design Lifecycle

Autor: G.A.L. Ng, C.E. Siemieniuch, Murray A. Sinclair
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: INCOSE International Symposium. 15:409-423
ISSN: 2334-5837
DOI: 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2005.tb00679.x
Popis: This paper describes the activities that were undertaken during a twelve-month study investigating the application of Human Reliability Assessment (HRA) within a major international systems company. It is hoped that this paper might act as a template for other companies wishing to re-evaluate their HRA processes and in order to develop sustainable processes to manage the generation and application of HRA along the engineering life cycle. The paper deals primarily with describing a process by which the HRA activities can be maintained and developed corporately. The initial findings of the study were that there was a general lack of confidence in the results of current HRA activities and these activities differed in scope and detail depending on the customers and the platform's historical use of HRA. In order to overcome these differences and to foster best practice, the Capability Maturity Process was developed for HRA activities across the company to be owned, managed and maintained internally. In addition a framework is suggested for HRA activities undertaken during the product development process. It is envisaged that this framework be tailored to allow the depth and appropriateness of different HRA techniques for different systems. Some common HRA techniques are presented together with a description of how they would fit into such a framework. The timeliness of the HRA activities were also considered, in that they can be applied at different stages of product development (early in the concept to screen out high level risks, down to activities leading up to qualification and certification of the product).
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