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Collision avoidance on maritime autonomous surface ships: Operators’ tasks and human failure events Open
Numerous research and industry initiatives have increasingly aimed at developing maritime surface autonomous ships (MASS). Among the motivations for the use of MASS is the potential increase in safety when compared to traditional manned sh…
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Safety and Reliability. Theory and Applications Open
This paper explores the concept of Critical Infrastructure (CI) resilience and its relationship with current Risk Assessment (RA) processes. It proposes a framework for resilience assessment of CI, which integrates the resilience paradigm …
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Inter-relationships between performance shaping factors for human reliability analysis of nuclear power plants Open
Performance shaping factors (PSFs) in a human reliability analysis (HRA) are one that may influence human performance in a task. Most currently applicable HRA methods for nuclear power plants (NPPs) use PSFs to highlight human error contri…
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Reliability assessment of manufacturing systems: A comprehensive overview, challenges and opportunities Open
Reliability assessment refers to the process of evaluating reliability of components or systems during their lifespan or prior to their implementation. In the manufacturing industry, the reliability of systems is directly linked to product…
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Performer selection in Human Reliability analysis: D numbers approach Open
Dependence assessment among human errors in human reliability analysis (HRA) is an significant issue. Many previous works discussed the factors influencing the dependence level but failed to discuss how these factors like "similarity of pe…
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Translationese in Machine Translation Evaluation Open
The term translationese has been used to describe the presence of unusual features of translated text. In this paper, we provide a detailed analysis of the adverse effects of translationese on machine translation evaluation results. Our an…
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Application of a SPAR-H based framework to assess human reliability during emergency response drill for man overboard on ships Open
Emergency preparedness is of paramount importance in successful emergency responses at sea. Therefore, emergency drills are regularly conducted to maintain acceptable levels of emergency preparedness. However, it needs to be considered tha…
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Impact analysis of human factors on power system operation reliability Open
Along with the improvement of electrical equipment reliability, people's unsafe behaviors and human errors have become one of main sources of risks in power systems. However, there is no comprehensive study on human factors and human relia…
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Relationship between human factors and a safe performance of vessel traffic service operators: A systematic qualitative-based review in maritime safety Open
The growth of the world merchant fleet in recent decades has caused an increase in congestion and complexity in maritime traffic, especially in coastal areas, straits and nearby channels. This fact, which acts negatively upon maritime safe…
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A human reliability analysis methodology for oil refineries and petrochemical plants operation: Phoenix-PRO qualitative framework Open
The oil industry has grown in terms of quantity of facilities and process complexity. However, human and material losses still occur due to major accidents, and many of which involve human failures. These failures can be identified, modele…
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Human reliability in manual assembly systems: a Systematic Literature Review. Open
Human error in manual assembly systems affects system reliability, safety and it is one of the most important causes of quality defects. Many researchers have developed methods for Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) with the aim of identifyi…
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Preliminary Human Safety Assessment (PHSA) for the Improvement of the Behavioral Aspects of Safety Climate in the Construction Industry Open
Occupational safety in the construction industry still represents a relevant problem at a global level. In fact, the complexity of working activities in this sector requires a comprehensive approach that goes beyond normative compliance to…
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Analysis of human errors in human-autonomy collaboration in autonomous ships operations through shore control experimental data Open
Human-autonomy collaboration plays a pivotal role in the development of Maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS), as Shore control center (SCC) operators may engage in the control loop by directly operating the MASS, or, in the supervisory…
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A taxonomy of performance shaping factors for human reliability analysis in industrial maintenance Open
Purpose: Human factors play an inevitable role in maintenance activities, and the occurrence of Human Errors (HEs) affects system reliability and safety, equipment performance and economic results. The high HE rate increased researchers’ a…
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Residual Life Prediction in the Presence of Human Error Using Machine Learning Open
Accurate maintenance decision making is important for military equipment. Extremely demanding situations like limited time availability for maintenance during the war escalate the possibility of human errors in the maintenance of such equi…
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Human Reliability Analysis for Digitized Nuclear Power Plants: Case Study on the LingAo II Nuclear Power Plant Open
The main control room (MCR) in advanced nuclear power plants (NPPs) has changed from analog to digital control system (DCS). Operation and control have become more automated, centralized, and accurate due to the digitalization of NPPs, whi…
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A framework to collect human reliability analysis data for nuclear power plants using a simplified simulator and student operators Open
Data scarcity in human reliability analysis (HRA) has been a major challenge in the quantification process. Many institutes have collected HRA data through experiments using full-scope simulators with actual operators. Nevertheless, there …
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Dynamic Human Reliability Analysis: Benefits and Challenges of Simulating Human Performance Open
To date, there has been considerable work on dynamic event trees and other areas related to dynamic probabilistic safety assessment (PSA). The counterpart to these efforts in human reliability analysis (HRA) has centered on the development…
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Lessons learned from applying a new HRA method for the petroleum industry Open
Petro-HRA is a new human reliability analysis method developed for the petroleum industry. The human error quantification step in the Petro-HRA method was adapted from the Standardized Plant Analysis Risk-Human Reliability Analysis (SPAR-H…
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Dependency definitions for quantitative human reliability analysis Open
Human reliability analysis (HRA) identifies the causal factors impacting the occurrence of human failure events and quantifies probabilities based on those causal factors. Quantification requires understanding the dependency structures tha…
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The hybrid method combined STPA and SLIM to assess the reliability of the human interaction system to the emergency shutdown system of LNG ship-to-ship bunkering Open
By introducing autonomous or software-controlled systems, human operators are increasingly required to perform cognitive-intensive tasks in addition to existing labour-intensive tasks. As a result, it will be more difficult to identify hum…
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Can ChatGPT and Bard generate aligned assessment items? A reliability analysis against human performance Open
ChatGPT and Bard are AI chatbots based on Large Language Models (LLM) that are slated to promise different applications in diverse areas. In education, these AI technologies have been tested for applications in assessment and teaching. In …
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Testing the reliability and validity of risk assessment methods in Human Factors and Ergonomics Open
There is growing interest in the use of systems-based risk assessment methods in Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE). The purpose of this study was to test the intra-rater reliability and criterion-referenced concurrent validity of three sy…
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Towards Accountable AI: Hybrid Human-Machine Analyses for Characterizing System Failure Open
As machine learning systems move from computer-science laboratories into the open world, their accountability becomes a high priority problem. Accountability requires deep understanding of system behavior and its failures. Current evaluati…
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A Bayesian model to treat within-category and crew-to-crew variability in simulator data for Human Reliability Analysis Open
The models adopted in Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) characterize personnel tasks and performance conditions via categories of task and influencing factors (e.g. task types and Performance Shaping Factors, PSF). These categories cover th…
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Remarks to the Reliability Assessment and to Human Actions – Especially Car Driver Open
The description attempt of the system person-vehicle-environment as an element of the system person-technical object-environment has been made. In the system analysis the reliability of the machine exploiter – a car driver has been taken i…
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Temporal decision-making factors in risk analyses of dynamic positioning operations Open
Nearly all dynamic positioning (DP) operations are characterized by limited time available for the DP operator to detect and act upon a loss of position. Collision risk is analyzed with a quantitative risk analysis, which usually does not …
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Shaping the Future Maintenance Operations: Reflections on the Adoptions of Augmented Reality Through Problems and Opportunities Open
Maintenance technicians play a fundamental role in ensuring the success of the system reliability, but several fatal accidents occur during the maintenance operations in Europe due to the nature of the job and to human errors. Augmented Re…
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Improving conflicts detection in maritime traffic: Case studies on the effect of traffic complexity on ship collisions Open
In shipping, collision risk is a serious safety threat. Risk probability estimations used for policymaking are derived from traffic density statistics, largely ignoring the decision-making process on board. Conflict detection and resolutio…
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Human reliability analysis in maintenance team of power transmission system protection Open
The requirement for reliable electrical energy supply increases continuously because of its vital role in our lives. However, events due to various factors in the power grid can cause energy supply to be interrupted. One of these factors i…