Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 80cafbe7-f4f0-4366-8dd3-76fec74d85a7
Document Type: srp
Title: HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0409/ML040920139.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 18
Section ID: 18.0
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that personnel performance is appropriately supported. For plants licensed under 10 CFR Part 52, the requirements of 10 CFR 50.34 (1) are incorporated under 10 CFR 52.47 and 10CRF 52.79. Meeting these requirements provides evidence that plant design, staffing, and operating practices are acceptable and that plant safety will not be compromised by human error or deficiencies in human interfaces with hardware and software.! In addition the staff relies on the SRP and post-TMI bulletins as guidance. To support the * review of an applicant's submittal for conformance to these 10 CFR requirements, the staff uses three primary guidance documents: NUREG-0700, NUREG-0711, and NUREG-1764. The technical basis upon which the staff's HFE review guidance was developed was (1) general systems theory and engineering principles; (2) available NPP industry HFE guidance, standards, guidance, and recommended practices developed in the industry (e.g., IEC and IEEE); HFE guidance developed for complex systems in general (e.g., by groups such as DoD, NASA, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society). As part of the development process, the guidance and its associated technical reports were extensively reviewed by independent subject matter experts, professional organizations, and industry representatives. As a result, the staff's guidance provides a technically valid basis upon which to review applicant HFE programs, processes, and designs. NRC guidance for a structured, top-down systems analysis of HFE was originally provided in NUREG-0700, Revision 0. This document provided a methodology for the review of existing control rooms. It recommended that additional analyses be conducted for new control rooms to optimize the allocation of functions to humans and machines and further examine advanced control system technologies. Appendix B of NUREG-0700, Revision 0, was provided as one source of guidance regarding these analyses. The guidance of NUREG-0700, Revision 0, has been updated twice