Fifty years of THERP and human reliability analysis

11th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference and the Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference 2012, PSAM11 ESREL 2012

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 3523-3532

  Boring, Ronald L ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

History; HRA; THERP

Indexed keywords

EVENT TREES; HRA; HUMAN ERROR PROBABILITY; HUMAN ERROR RATES; HUMAN ERRORS; HUMAN FAILURE; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; HUMAN RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; NATIONAL LABORATORY; PERFORMANCE SHAPING FACTORS; POWER APPLICATIONS; SANDIA LABORATORY; TASK ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; THERP;

ERRORS; HISTORY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; JOB ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84873116020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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