Interpreting Guidelines for Nuclear Power Plant Control Rooms

Abstract

If Human Factors guidelines are not carefully interpreted and applied, control room projects can be degraded. Evaluation guidelines can be misleading when used for designing control room improvements. Guidelines identify what may be adequate, but not the best solutions. The quality of an improvement project depends upon finding the best feasible solution for each problem. Therefore, reliance should be placed not merely upon NUREG guidance, but rather upon the larger body of human factors literature.