Typical projects undertaken by ARC staff in the Nuclear / Defence Sector, includes:
Project: Human Factors Guidance for Safety Case Authors
Client: Urenco UK Limited
A Human Factors Guidance & Methodology Handbook was developed for the Uranium Enrichment Facility at Urenco UK Limited (UUK). The aim of the Handbook was to provide Designers and Safety Case Authors with sufficient guidance to ensure a consistent approach when integrating Human Factors into the Facility Design and Safety Case development process.
The handbook included general guidance on ergonomics approaches and techniques (i.e. task analysis, human error analysis, human factors audits, Human Factors integration, operator workload analysis, etc.) and specific procedures for the inclusion of Human Factors into the safety case development process for new and existing facilities/systems.
Project: Human Factors Design Review
Client: Magnox North – Hunterston A Site
As part of pre-construction Safety Case, a high-level Human Factors review of the detailed design for a new waste encapsulation facility was undertaken. The purpose of this review was to identify any key human factors issues, evaluate the possible implications in relation to safety and operability and to provide guidance on how best to address these issues within the design process.
Project: Human Factors Support to Safety Case Submission
Client: AWE
Human Factors support to the development of a Safety Case on an existing Assembly / Disassembly Facility. The project involved working closely with the lead safety case author in order to produce a detailed Human Factors addendum to the Safety Case.
Human Factors elements of this project included:
§ Human Factors / Ergonomics support to HAZOPs.
§ Production of a high level Hierarchical Task Analysis and more detailed Tabular Task Analysis.
§ Review of operating procedures and suggested possible improvements.
§ Review of accident / incident information to determine types of errors reported in the past.
§ Human Error Identification analysis and qualitative risk assessment.
§ Quantitative Human Reliability Assessment, including analysis of error dependency, where errors were identified as having the potential to initiate a fault sequence leading to design-basis accident. The HEART and THERP techniques were utilised to assist with this assessment.
Project: Human Factors Review of Fire Station Design
Client: Urenco UK Limited
A high-level ergonomics review of the new Fire Station design at the Uranium Enrichment Facility at Urenco UK Limited (UUK) was undertaken. The purpose of this review was to identify any Human Factors / Ergonomics issues with the proposed new design and provide guidance on how they may be addressed within the detailed design. In addition, the report provided some generic Human Factors guidance for office environments.
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