HUMAN RELIABILITY RESEARCH
Abstract
The research effort focused on two major areas, a survey and analysis of existing failure reporting systems, and the investigation of alternative indirect approaches to determining human performance and quantifying the human reliability contribution to weapon system effectiveness. It was found that existing failure reporting systems do not yield meaningful data on human- initiated malfunctions. In most cases, a strong reluctance to report all failures was noted, particularly human errors. In attempting to develop an indirect approach to human reliability analysis, two techniques were investigated, both of which rely on equipment failure reporting rather than human error reporting. One technique is ERUPT. This approach, by grouping the components of a weapon system into elementary reliability units, provides a means of inferring two human performance parameters from available equipment reliability and maintenance data. The second approach relates certain personnel characteristics of individuals operating and maintaining the equipment to number of failures and equipment repair times by the application of multivariate correlation analysis techniques.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0664495
Entities
People
- C. Beek
- G. Markisohn
- K. Haynam