The reasons of accidents are reported frequently that “I was too busy to avoid an error“ or “I had no time to make a check“. Though there is a view on that personnel reduction and increase in quantity of occupations heighten the feeling of busyness of workers, there are few previous studies on the factors that affect the feeling of busyness. Then, the questionnaire about the feeling of busyness is developed. In this study, in order to make clear the background factors influencing the feeling of busyness, ...
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A Study of the Background Factors Influencing the Feeling of Busyness of Plant Workers

Abstract It is predicted that the average age of workers in Japan will increase during the first half of the 21st century. Therefore, investigations into working surroundings in which older workers can better perform their w ork would be useful. To this end, a questionnaire addressing issues related to working surroundings was conducted among workers in nuclear power plants and the demands for improvement of working surroundings for older worker s are summarized. The demands of “better lighting”, “making t...
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Teamwork between Older Workers and Younger Workers in Maintenance Operations

Based on some experiments and questionnaire researches, we previously showed that visual type written procedures supply more various advantages for maintenance tasks than con ventional type. In this article, we intend to develop a check sheet which avails to prepare and evaluate visua type written procedures for maintenance novice....
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Proposal of a check sheet for visual type written procedures for maintenance novice

This study clarifies the factors which have a direct influence on the sense of busyne ss in the workplace at the nuclear power plants and refers about the examination meth ods which give an assessment of current conditions for the sense of busyness. Also, t he finding that the sense of busyness was affected at the 5 direct factors was shown....
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The sense of busyness in the workplace at the nuclear power plants

In a previous study, we have analyzed trouble information related to maintenance of nuclear power plants and extra cted seven issues to consider. These are including the issue of education and training for skill acquisition. In t his study, we have examined the differences of works between two types of work procedure instruction sheet by obse rving the assembling work of an air operated control valve actuator. This paper shows results of this experiment....
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Considerations of concerning the influence of the work procedure instruction sheetsin the assembling work of an air operated control valve actuator

保全は、プラント設備の安全性と信保全業務における作業手順書の重要性は大きいと言えるが、作業手順書の具体的な改善方法については言及されていないのが現状である。そこで、作業手順書を改善するための工夫についての知見と、日ごろ感じている作業手順書の課題について紹介する。頼性を確保するためには必要不可欠なものであるが、保全のまずさが、トラブルの原因となっていることも散見される。...