Human element factors affecting reliability and safety

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 406-414

  Koval, Don O ^a,b   Landis Floyd Ii, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ELECTRIC ACCIDENTS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL; RELIABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HUMAN ELEMENT FACTORS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032024683     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.663487     Document Type: Article

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