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A Study on the Feasibility of Evaluating the Complexity of KTX Driving Tasks

KTX 운전직무에 대한 복잡도 평가 - 타당성 연구

  • 박진균 (한국원자력연구원 종합안전평가부) ;
  • 정원대 (한국원자력연구원 종합안전평가부) ;
  • 장승철 (한국원자력연구원 종합안전평가부) ;
  • 고종현 (한국수력원자력 원자력발전기술원 방사선기술실)
  • Published : 2009.10.30
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Abstract

According to the result of related studies, the degradation of human performance has been revealed as one of the most significant causes resulting in the safety of any human-involved system. This means that preventing the occurrence of accidents/incidents through avoiding the degradation of human performance is prerequisite for their successive operation. To this end, it is necessary to develop a plausible tool to evaluate the complexity of a task, which has been known as one of the decisive factors affecting the human performance. For this reason, in this paper, the complexity of tasks to be conducted by KTX drivers was quantified by TACOM measure that is enable to quantify the complexity of proceduralized tasks being used in nuclear power plants. After that, TACOM scores about the tasks of KTX drivers were compared with NASA-TLX scores that are responsible for the level of a subjective workload to be felt by KTX drivers.

기존 연구결과에 따르면, 시스템의 안전성에 가장 큰 영향을 주는 요인 중 하나는 인적수행도의 저하인 것으로 밝혀졌다. 따라서 인적수행도 저하 방지를 통한 사건/사고의 방지는 원자력이나 철도와 같이 안전을 우선적으로 고려해야 하는 산업체의 경우 반드시 고려되어야 하는 조건이다. 이를 위해서는 인적수행도 저감의 원인의 체계적 파악 및 이에 근거한 효과적인 관리가 선행되어야 하기 때문에, 대표적인 인적수행도 저하 원인으로 알려져 있는 직무복잡도를 객관적으로 평가할 수 있는 방법의 개발이 필요하다. 이러한 필요성에 따라, 본 논문에서는 원자력발전소의 절차화된 직무에 대한 복잡도를 평가할 수 있는 TACOM 척도를 사용하여 KTX 기장이 수행해야 하는 운전직무의 복잡도를 정량적으로 평가한 후 그 결과를 주관적 직무부하 평가 방법인 NASA-TLX 결과와 비교하여 적합성을 검증하였다.

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