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Conditions for the successful integration of Human and Organizational Factors (HOF) in the nuclear safety analysis

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Tosello, Michèle | Lévêque, Françoise | Dutillieu, Stéphanie | Hernandez, Guillaume | Vautier, Jean-François;

Affiliations: The authors are members of the Human and Organizational Factors network of the CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), France, CEA/Cadarache ([email protected], [email protected]) | The authors are members of the Human and Organizational Factors network of the CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), France, CEA/Marcoule ([email protected]) | The authors are members of the Human and Organizational Factors network of the CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), France, CEA/Fontenay-aux-Roses ([email protected], [email protected]) | The authors are members of the Human and Organizational Factors network of the CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), France, Professor assistant at the INSTN (National Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology), France

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected].

Keywords: dialogical pairs, complex systems, human and organizational factors, nuclear safety

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0508-2656

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 2656-2660, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

This communication presents some elements which come from the experience feedback at CEA about the conditions for the successful integration of HOF in the nuclear safety analysis. To point out some of these conditions, one of the concepts proposed by Edgar Morin to describe the functioning of “complex” systems: the dialogical principle has been used. The idea is to look for some dialogical pairs. The elements of this kind of pair are both complementary and antagonist to one another. Three dialogical pairs are presented in this communication. The first two pairs are related to the organization of the HOF network and the last one is related to the methods which are used to analyse the working situations. The three pairs are: specialist – non-specialist actors of the network, centralized – distributed human resources in the network and microscopic – macroscopic levels of HOF methods to analyse the working situations. To continuously improve these three dialogical pairs, it is important to keep the differences which exist between the two elements of a pair and to find and maintain a balance between the two elements of the pairs.

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