Human Reliability
Human Reliability

Author: Balbir S. Dhillon

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1483149293

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Human Reliability: With Human Factors focuses on human reliability during system design. The book is organized into 13 chapters, wherein Chapter 1 presents histories of human factors and human reliability along with selective terms and definitions. Chapter 2 shows basic reliability mathematics and concepts. Subsequent chapters then elaborate on human reliability, human errors, six human reliability analysis methods, and reliability evaluation of systems with human errors. Other chapters elucidate human factors in maintenance and maintainability; human safety; human reliability data; and human factors in quality control, design, mathematical models, and formulas. Applications of human factors engineering are also addressed. The text will be valuable to human factor engineers and specialists, reliability and maintainability specialists, system and design engineers, industrial engineers, quality control engineers, and students.

Human Reliability and Safety Analysis Data Handbook
Human Reliability and Safety Analysis Data Handbook

Author: David I. Gertman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1993-12-16

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780471591108

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Takes into account the human element as well as the classical aspects of mechanical, electrical and chemical designs that contribute to risk. Features a significant amount of data essential for risk analysis not normally available. Contains numerous examples of authentic applications and case studies.

Medical Device Reliability and Associated Areas
Medical Device Reliability and Associated Areas

Author: B.S. Dhillon

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2000-03-29

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1420042238

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Although Reliability Engineering can trace its roots back to World War II, its application to medical devices is relatively recent, and its treatment in the published literature has been quite limited. With the medical device industry among the fastest growing segments of the US economy, it is vital that the engineering, biomedical, manufacturing,

Human Reliability And Error In Medical System
Human Reliability And Error In Medical System

Author: B S Dhillon

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2003-09-05

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 9814486086

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Human reliability and error have become a very important issue in health care, owing to the vast number of associated deaths each year. For example, according to the findings of the Institute of Medicine in 1999, around 100000 Americans die each year because of human error. This makes human error in health care the eighth leading cause of deaths in the US. Moreover, the total annual national cost of the medical errors is estimated at between $17 billion and $37.6 billion.There are very few books on this subject, and none of them covers it at a significant depth. The need for a book presenting the basics of human reliability, human factors and comprehensive information on error in medical systems is essential. This book meets that need.

A Guide To Practical Human Reliability Assessment
A Guide To Practical Human Reliability Assessment

Author: B. Kirwan

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 1351469878

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Human error is here to stay. This perhaps obvious statement has a profound implication for society when faced with the types of hazardous system accidents that have occurred over the past three decades. Such accidents have been strongly influenced by human error, yet many system designs in existence or being planned and built do not take human error into consideration.; "A Guide to Practical Human Reliability Assessment" is a practical and pragmatic guide to the techniques and approaches of human reliability assessment HRA. lt offers the reader explanatory and practical methods which have been applied and have worked in high technology and high risk assessments - particularly but not exclusively to potentially hazardous industries such as exist in process control, nuclear power, chemical and petrochemical industries. A Guide to Practical Human Reliability Assessment offers the practitioner a comprehensive tool-kit of different approaches along with guidance on selecting different methods for different applications. It covers the risk assessment and the HRA process, as well as methods of task analysis, error identification, quantification, representation of errors in the risk analysis, followed by error reduction analysis, quality assurance and documentation. There are also a number of detailed case studies from nuclear, chemical, offshore, and marine HRA'S, exemplfying the image of techniques and the impact of HRA in existing and design-stage systems.

Human Reliability Assessment Theory and Practice
Human Reliability Assessment Theory and Practice

Author: Anthony J. Spurgin

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2009-10-08

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1420068520

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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

Human Reliability, Error, and Human Factors in Engineering Maintenance
Human Reliability, Error, and Human Factors in Engineering Maintenance

Author: B.S. Dhillon

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2009-04-08

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1439803846

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Of the billions of dollars spent on plant management and operation annually, an estimated 80% of the total amount is spent to rectify the chronic failure of systems, machines, and humans. Although information on human reliability, error, and human factors in engineering maintenance is scattered throughout journals and proceedings, no single resourc

Human Reliability
Human Reliability

Author: K.S. Park

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-06-28

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1483297276

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The objectives of Human Reliability are to build reliability into the job, into the machine, and into the environment, and to let man perform naturally. In this book the author shows how these objectives can be achieved by concentrating on human reliability issues during the design stage. This is done by illustrating the relationships between various design features and some aspect of human performance, e.g. human errors.The book is designed as a practical guide to the daily performance of tasks in Human Reliability as well as a general reference and tutorial introduction to the field. It is therefore both practical and theoretical: the first four chapters focus on principles and ramifications relevant to human error prevention; the latter four are primarily concerned with human reliability analysis and prediction methodology. Throughout the book there are extensive references, numerous ready-to-use recommendations, formulas and mathematical models, and computer programs for human reliability work for analyzing, predicting and preventing human errors in a variety of situations. Though some of the material requires undergraduate training in engineering, the more difficult mathematical expositions can be omitted without loss of continuity, but are available for the reader who needs a more complete understanding of the relevant theory.

Human Reliability, Error, and Human Factors in Power Generation
Human Reliability, Error, and Human Factors in Power Generation

Author: B. S. Dhillon

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2014-01-07

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 3319040197

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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 maintain various types of power systems around the globe, and such systems often fail due to human error. This book compiles various recent results and data into one volume, and eliminates the need to consult many diverse sources to obtain vital information. It enables potential readers to delve deeper into a specific area, providing the source of most of the material presented in references at the end of each chapter. Examples along with solutions are also provided at appropriate places, and there are numerous problems for testing the reader’s comprehension. Chapters cover a broad range of topics, including general methods for performing human reliability and error analysis in power plants, specific human reliability analysis methods for nuclear power plants, human factors in control systems, and human error in power plant maintenance. They are written in such a manner that the potential reader requires no previous knowledge to understand their contents. “Human Reliability, Error, and Human Factors in Power Generation” will prove useful to many individuals, including engineering professionals working in the power generation industry, researchers, instructors, and undergraduate and graduate students in the field of power engineering.

Human Reliability and Error in Transportation Systems
Human Reliability and Error in Transportation Systems

Author: Balbir S. Dhillon

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-07-11

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1846288126

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Human errors contribute significantly to most transportation crashes: approximately 70 to 90 percent of crashes are the result of human error. This book examines human reliability across all types of transportation systems. The material is accessible to readers with no previous knowledge in the field and is supported with a full explanation of the necessary mathematical concepts together with numerous examples and test problems.