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Auto-CREAM: Software application for evaluation of HEP with basic and extended CREAM for PSA studies

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  • Garg, Vipul
  • Vinod, Gopika
  • Kant, Vivek

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Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) enables the estimation of the contribution of erroneous actions from the control room and field operators towards the overall risk, as Human Error Probability (HEP). A challenge usually encountered in HRA is inaccuracy in manual calculation of HEP and variance in the evaluated HEP results for the same case study by different HRA practitioners; owing to unavailability of professional software tools for HRA, unlike plenty of such tools available for Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA). CREAM, a widely used second generation HRA method quantifies the conditional failure probability of operator's cognition with respect to the context. Since it is a detailed method based on the concepts of cognition, manual evaluation of HEP with CREAM still remains a cumbersome and error prone process. The objective of this article is to address these challenges by automating and validating the CREAM predictive analysis as a software application. In developing the application, the research contribution of this paper is implementation of uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of the probability of Human Failure Event (HFE) i.e. P(HFE/Context). Uncertainty analysis in Auto-CREAM is performed using a numerical technique, unlike the expert elicitation or empirical approaches adopted by HRA methods.

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  • Garg, Vipul & Vinod, Gopika & Kant, Vivek, 2023. "Auto-CREAM: Software application for evaluation of HEP with basic and extended CREAM for PSA studies," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 236(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reensy:v:236:y:2023:i:c:s0951832023002326
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2023.109318
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