Classification of Organizational Factors for Nuclear Power Plant Safety

Abstract

Abstract: A comprehensive classification framework of organizational factors is developed by combining the existing categories and those from questionnaires.There are three main categories: organizational strategy and goals,organizational structure,and organizational culture.With the proposed classification framework,71 reports of human factor incidents in a nuclear power plant from 2000 to 2003 are analyzed.Based on the analysis,the critical factors are identified.Moreover,the categories of organizational factors relative to safety are obtained with R-type clustering.

Key words: organizational factors;, Rtype cluster analysis, nuclear power plants

CLC Number:

X928

DAI Li-Cao1,2, LI Peng-Cheng2, ZHANG Li2,3. Classification of Organizational Factors for Nuclear Power Plant Safety[J]. Industrial Engineering Journal , 2011, 14(1): 1-5.

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