Gertman, David I.

Human reliability and safety analysis data handbook / David I. Gertman and Harold S. Blackman. - New York : Wiley, c1994. - xxiii, 448 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + hbk.

Cover title: Human reliability & safety analysis data handbook.

Bibliography: p. 427-444. - Includes index.

Introduction and background to human reliability analysis -- Conducting human reliability analysis -- Formal methods for estimating human reliabillity -- HRA fault and event trees -- Existing data sources and data bank -- HRA: a case study for nuclear processing facility design -- HRA case study for a nuclear power plant: containment venting procedure -- Relation of HRA to systems safety and system performance -- Simulators and simulation as a tool for evaluating human reliability -- Organizational factors and human reliability -- Outstanding issues -- Behavioral mechanisms underlying human error -- The problem: representation of errors of commission (cognitive error) in PRA -- HRA and the impact of emerging hardware and software technologies.

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Human engineering.
Reliability (Engineering)
Risk assessment
Safety factor in engineering.

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