Title :
Toward improved switching safety and reliability
Author :
Beare, Arthur ; Dearman, Richard ; Dessureau, Paul ; Lutterodt, Sarah
Author_Institution :
Beare Ergonomics, Columbia, MD, USA
Abstract :
EPRI is sponsoring an ongoing project to identify ´best practices´ that can help utilities to reduce switching errors and thereby improve reliable performance. A part of this project is an industry-wide survey to collect data on switching-related practices in the areas of personnel and training; planning switching; implementing switching; and incident investigation and reporting. The paper provides a summary of the survey results to date, and preliminary results relating switching practices to error rates
Keywords :
personnel; power system reliability; safety; switching; training; EPRI; error rates; personnel; reliability; switching errors reduction; switching implementation; switching planning; switching practices; switching safety; training; Ergonomics; Error analysis; Industrial training; Personnel; Power system planning; Power system reliability; Railway safety; Sampling methods; Standardization; Terminology;
Conference_Titel :
Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, 1999. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Edmonton, Alta.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5569-5
DOI :
10.1109/PESS.1999.784356
