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American Nuclear Society Human Factors Division

American Nuclear Society Human Factors Division. Presentation to the ANS Board of Directors Valerie Barnes, chair November 16, Washington, DC. HFD Mission.

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American Nuclear Society Human Factors Division

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  1. American Nuclear SocietyHuman Factors Division Presentation to the ANS Board of Directors Valerie Barnes, chair November 16, Washington, DC

  2. HFD Mission • The mission of the Division is to promote the integration of human factors knowledge into the design, operations, maintenance, and management of nuclear systems in order to enhance system reliability. • The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to: • the design of instrumentation and controls to minimize errors • the design of procedures to support information processing and decision-making • personnel selection, training, and fitness for duty, and • management and organizational influences on human performance

  3. Executive Committee Officers 2005-2006 Valerie Barnes, Chair Poon Hyun Seong, Vice-Chair/Chair Elect Ky Nguygen, Secretary/Treasurer Executive Committee (with term expiration) 2005 Barbara Newsom (barbnewsom@aol.com) 2006 Valerie Barnes (vxb3@nrc.gov) 2006 Patrick Tebbe (patrick.tebbe@mnsu.edu) 2007 Poon Hyun Seong ((phseong@kaist.ac.kr) 2007 Ky Nguygen (nguyenkd@songs.sce.com) 2008 Mark Friedman (Mark.Friedman@dayzim.com) 2008 Sergey S. Anikanov (anikanss@westinghouse.com) Barbara Newsom (Past Chair) Don Hoffman (Professional Divisions Committee Chair) William Naughton (Board Liaison) Sharon Kerrick (Staff Liaison)

  4. 700 593 585 577 568 600 546 500 400 300 200 100 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Membership trends

  5. Membership Composition

  6. Budget Information

  7. Division Governance • Division Planning/Strategic Plan, Succession Planning • Strategic plan submitted in 2004 • Succession plan included in strategic plan • Communications/Web, E-mail/Copy of Newsletter • No newsletter issued since May 2004 • Website to be updated in 2005

  8. Division/TG Contributions to ANS • ANS Position Statements • Proposing to develop a statement regarding the need to integrate human factors into engineering education • Participation with Other Professional Societies • Co-sponsorship of division topical • Society Leadership • 70% executive committee attendance • ~100% PDC&NPC • Non-Meeting Publications • None since August 2003 NT special issue

  9. Division/TG Services to Membership • Professional Development • 2004 workshop for utility working conference • Bill Corcoran - root cause analysis • 2004 workshop with division topical • Ted Quinn • Scholarships • none • Peer Recognition/Awards • none • Student Support - two conferences in 2004, two in 2005 - proposal to fund student executive committee participation

  10. Division/TG Meetings • National Meeting Participation • 1 session in November 2005 • 6 sessions planned for June 2006 • Topicals/Prior Two Years, Current Year, Future Two Years • NPIC&HMIT 2004 • NPIC&HMIT planned for 2007

  11. Nuclear Plant Instrumentation Control and Human Machine Interface Technologies, NPIC&HMIT’2004 • Columbus Ohio, September 19-22, 2004 • Organizers: • Steven Arndt (NRC), general chair • Gary Johnson (LLL), tech. co-chair, NPIC • John O’Hara (BNL), tech. co-chair, HMIT • Cosponsors: EPRI, DOE, NRC, IAEA, and OECD/AEA • 220 participants,12+ countries

  12. Summary • Status of Division/TG Metrics and Measures • Division Governance Communications • newsletter and website updates in 2005 • Areas of Success • Division Contributions to Society • Division topicals: 1993, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007 • NT special issues: 2002, 2003, 2004 • Focus for Future Action • Membership recruitment • Communications: newsletter and timely website updates

  13. Professional Division Metrics / Measures of Division VitalityHFD Vitality Measures – CY 2004

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