October 24 - 26, 2000
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HUMAN FACTORS AND NUCLEAR SAFETY
PRESENTATION
Safety of nuclear power plants has always been a top priority for nuclear industry. Nevertheless the Chernobyl accident demonstrated that a combination of design deficiencies and human errors can result in a disastrous lack of safety.
Since then a lot of studies and reflexions have been devoted to theses questions in order to prevent any more acident. Statistics show that the "human factor" plays a role in about three quarters of the incidents which occur in nuclear plants. But surprisingly the nuclear plant personnel are rarely been asked their opinion on this issue. It is too easily forgotten that the nuclear workers have the closest knowledge of their power plants, that they are most familiar with their strong and weak points, that they live their families and friends on the immediate outskirts of the plants and would be the first to be affected by an accident.
The World Council of Nuclear Workers has decided to organize an international conference to give them the floor.
During this conference, engineers, technicians, supervisors, human resources managers of nuclear plants worldwide, will be invited to express their views on the safety matters they live in everyday and they have to solve in practical terms, to elaborate on the various technical, sociological and political aspects of safety matters the priorities to examine and the main questions to solve. How to organize nuclear shifts, how to optimize the respective functions of men and automatisms, which tasks should be reserved to the plant personnel and which ones could be subcontracted to external firms, how to facilitate communication among operators, which role for the occupational medicine, these are only examples of the various questions which will be discussed
Representatives of trade unions of nuclear installations have the firm intention to inaugurate, during this meeting, a fruitful dialogue with all other people involved: nuclear and ecological experts, nuclear industry members, representatives of national and international agencies, media and political leaders.
No doubt that, by pointing out the true problems and discussing their solutions with all interested partners, WONUC will contribute both to promote nuclear safety and to sweep away all the unfounded arguments and fears about nuclear energy.
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PROGRAM
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Guest Papers
- B. Nigmatulin, Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation of Atomic Energy, MINATOM, Moscow
"Human Factor Reliability as a reserve and guarantee for increase of safety of Nuclear Installations." - A. Carnino, IAEA Department Director
"The IAEA program on ensuring safety in nuclear engineering." - V. Kaschkin, Vice Chairman of Central Committee of Nuclear Workers of the Russian Federation
"Trade-union motion in the branch and problems of ensuring safety of nuclear facilities." - A. Simon, General Secretary of the International Organization of trade unions of power workers and miners.
Human factors
"The approaches to the human factor at EDF, France. "
"Organisational and psychological problems of safety in the atomic engineering. SCR «Prognoz», Obninsk"
"Moral responsibility. Romania."
"The wage as a social aspect of human factor of NPP safety. Kalinin NPP, Udomlja. "
"Lessons learned in Total Quality Management : Nuclear Safety and Human Resources"
- P. Rodriguez, S.M. Lee, R.P. Kapoor, V.M. Radhunath, S.V. Karthikeyan. (India)
"Safety Management Procedures and Practices at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India." - R. Habegger .(USA)
"Are we going to have enough qualified people to operate a safe, nuclear power plant in the future? NHRP, USA." - Junko Takahashi, (Japan)
"Supporting excellent human performance of nuclear power plant operators, TEPCO, Japan ." - V. Scharapov, (Belgium)
"Training of personnel, wages, labor motivation of the NPP operator. "
Safety Culture
- M. Altschuller, V. Vitkov, L. Voronin, Yu. Chestakov. (Russia)
"Experience of assessment of safety culture in Russian NPPs during 1996-2000.VNIIAES, Moscow." - U. Scheps, (South Africa) : Koeberg NPP, South Africa
"The identification and measurement of safety management systems : towards a behavioural response approach." - G. Morris, (USA)
"Best practices in dealing with employee safety concerns" - Rudi Ezrman & Matjaz Ravnik ( Slovenie)
« State and trends in Personnel dose monitoring in Nuclear Power Plant Krsko » - D. Shier, R. Boisvert (Canada)
"Nuclear worker involvement in Canadian NPPs." - A. Daniels, (WANO)
"The rôle of WANO in promoting nuclear safety." - J. Cech (Slovak Rep.)
"Human factor influence analyses to systems’ and components operation reliability " - Bonalyn Mosteller (USA)
“Creating a safety conscious work environment”
"Men as individuals : physical & psychological aptness questions
- V. Menschov, V. Abramova, V. Kaschkin, I. Zonov, S. Mefodiev, O. Gordienko, (Russia)
"A method and outcomes of measurement of the social-psychological attitudes of NPP personnel in the concept of safety culture, Obninsk" - N. Limulina. (Russia)
"Maintenance of psychological reliability and readiness for safe operation of staff a Smolensk NPP. Smolensk NPP, Desnogorsk." - I. Volkova. (Russia)
"Technique of psychological support for the managers in Nuclear engineering. St.-Petersburg’div. of SCR "Prognoz", St.-Petersburg, Russia." - E.Gorbacheva. (Russia)
"The effectiveness of psychological support and rehabilitation system of nuclear station staff. BalNPP, Balakovo, Russia." - V. Perepuhov. (Russia)
"Role and challenges of industrial medicine in maintenance of reliability of professional work of nuclear power plants personnel. LNPP, Sosnoviy Bor, Russia." - M. Mashina, V. Mashin. (Russia)
"The analysis of a heart rhythm variability as the tool of the control and estimation of a relaxation and autotraining methods efficiency. Novovoronezh Training Centre. Novovoronezh, Russia." - V. Gridnev. (Russia)
"Creation positive morally - psychological situation in collective as one of the factors of an NPP operational safety increase. Pres.Trade-union committee of Novovoronzh NPP. Novovoronezh, Russia." - V. Abramova, T. Melnitzkaya (Russia)
"The social - psychological factors of personnel readiness to safety control of NPP operation. OSRC «Prognoz», Obninsk" - T. Melnitzkaya. (Russia)
"Social - psychological features of selection of a leader in labor collectives at NPP. SCR «Prognoz», Obninsk, Russia." - A. Zavialov, A. Tzariov. (Russia)
"The method for the estimation of organism’s functional status of the operators Kursk NPP, on the basis of the integral analysis a miscellaneous biological level functions. Kursk NPP - Kursk St. Med. University, Kurchatov- Kursk" - V. Abramova, I. Zonov, S. Mefodiev, E. Volkov, O. Gordienko. (Russia)
"Outcomes of applying the "Techniques of the psychological analysis of reasons of errors of personnel in NPP accidents". Concern "Rosenergoatom" - OSRC "Prognoz", Moscow - Obninsk. " - M. Uskayev (Russia)
"The social - psychological factors in problems of safety of research reactors. Dimitrovgrad" - E. Volkov (Russia)
"A method for collecting, storing and using data of psychophysiological examinations of personnel of nuclear engineering enterprises. SPb SRC « Prognoz », St Petersburg." - S. Berdugin, E. Makarov (Russia)
"Anticipation and analysis of reasons of personnel errors. PTS of Balakovo NPP. " - A. Petrov (Russia)
"The errors on ignorance and intellectual capacities of the worker - whether the relationship exists? ETC of Zaporozhye NPP, Ukraine." - J. Willem Goudriaan (Russia)
"The Collaboration of Trade-Unions in Power Engineering" - B. Mihai (Romania)
"Responsibility in NPP Operation" - S. Berdugin, N. Usacheva:(Russia)
"Lack of information as a reason of personnel errors. PTS of Balakovo NPP. " - C. Karlsson (Finland)
"An effort to improve the operators’habits of actions in normal operations and disturbing situations at TVO NPP in Finland." - N. Bulokhova (Russia)
"The communicative characteristics of the organizational factors of personnel safe operation. Kalinin NPP, Udomlja." - A. Schirokova (Russia)
"Features of formation of self-testing in NPP personnel activity. Kalinin NPP, Udomlja." - H. Taboada, (Argentina)
"Safety aspects of nuclear reactors in Argentina" - V. Ciocarlan, (Romania).
"Staff Optimization" - V. Nikolaiev (Russia)
"The human factor and nuclear safety on UECC. Ural" - L. Hrebenciuc, (Rumania)
"Organizational structure of Nucleaelectricia Society following the Energy Minister reorganization in June 1998"
Personnel training
- S. Berdugin (Russia)
"Application of modern personnel training methods on Balakovo NPP." - M. Pike, (UK)
"Training and Assessment Programme for Nuclear Decommissioning " - V. Galberg, I. Bondarev, V. Epifanov, A. Astaschov . (Russia)
"About some problems of applying simulators for personnel training and safety assessment. Kursk NPP, Kurchatov." - Minako Fujiie, Ryutaro Kawano. (Japan)
"A training Program «TIPS» for Improvement of Team Performance of Nuclear Power Plant Operators. TEPCO, Japan" - Yi Beyong-ho. (Korea)
"Training program of superior operator and prevention of human error during surveillance test, NPP, Korea." - Ryutaro Kawano, Tsutomu Ohtsuka, Tsuyoshi Masugi, (Japan.)
"A Study on CRT pictures based on plant images by NPP operators" - V. Gonchar (Russia)
"The Instructor as a key figure in vocational personnel training. Novovoronezh NPP". - M. Mashina, V. Mashin (Russia)
"A teaching course " Control of a stress " for NPP personnel. Novovoronezh NPP." - V. Chukharev (Russia)
"Modern methods of training of nuclear facilities staff. Smolensk NPP. " - Dien Y., Ghienne M. (France)
"Quelle formation pour le futur management intermédiaire? EDF, France/Ukraine." - Yujie Dongi (China)
"Increase of safety of a nuclear thermal-neutron reactor with the help of a compact simulator. China." - Dr. Ing. E. Lindauer, (Germany)
"Human factors in simulator training" - Dr. Yujie Dong (China)
« Improving the safety of nuclear heating reactor by means of compact simulator » - Petrov (Ukraine)
"Methods of improvement of personnel vocational training processes for nuclear facilities. Zaporozhye NPP, Ukraine." - Schavlakov (Ukraine)
"Modern methods of training of nuclear facilities staff. Zaporozhye NPP, Ukraine".
Man-machine interfaces, organization information and radiation protection
- M. Khudjakov (Russia)
"A NPP unit as the instrument of a transactions of the Operator (New approaches to a problem of optimization of the human-machine interface in energetic systems of a type Man-Machine). Leningrad NPP, Sosnovy Bor." - Beom Soo Park (Korea)
"The Method of Sharing the Information at Kori NPP Unit 3&4, KEPCO, Korea." - Khudjakov, A. Stebnev (Russia)
"A comprehensive system for the operator maintenance, for the optimisation of conditions of the operator activity. LNPP, Sosnovy Bor, Russia." - R. Godfrey, T. Karma (Australia)
"Lucas Heights, Australia. Quality systems and nuclear safety at Australia’s HIFAR research reactor." - E. Desmares & V. Lagrange, (France)
"Evolutions du management de la sûreté. Nouveaux contextes : nouvelles pratiques (cas d’EDF en France)." - O. Gordienko. (Russia)
"Ergonomic expertise of work place in the analysis of human errors causes. OSRC «Prognoz», Obninsk". - P. Kockerols (Belgium)
"Physical criticality prevention in a MOX fuel fabrication plant." - S. Micherjakov (Russia)
"A criteria estimation of quality of an accepted decision on control of composite technical systems with usage of indistinct sets. Concern "Rosenergoatom", Moscow." - S. Aghamiri, (Iran), A. Kafeabad, (Iran), M.R.D. Seaward, (U.K)., M. Beitollahi, (Iran)
"Epidemiological Study of regional effects of elevated Natural Radiation in Brazil, India and Iran." - S.M. Mortazavi (Iran), T. Ikushima, (Iran)
"Open questions regarding implications of radioadaptative response in the estimation of the risks of low-level exposures in nuclear workers."