China Safety Science Journal ›› 2024, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (11): 9-16.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2024.11.0362

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Effects of vibration and time pressure on monitoring performance and workload of operators in DCS

HU Hong1(), WU Jiang2, ZHANG Mian3, SHEN Chao2, YI Cannan1,**(), ZHAO Caijun1   

  1. 1 School of Safety and Management Engineering, Hunan Institute of Engineering, Hengyang Hunan 421002, China
    2 China Nuclear Power Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Guangdong 518000, China
    3 School of Resources Environment and Safety Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang Hunan 421001, China
  • Received:2024-07-10 Revised:2024-09-15 Online:2024-11-28 Published:2025-01-05
  • Contact: YI Cannan

Abstract:

To explore the effects of vibration and time pressure on monitoring tasks in DCS and reduce human error, a monitoring experiment was designed to measure the monitoring performance and workload under vibration conditions (static, low and high) and time pressure conditions (no time pressure and time pressure). Statistical methods were used to explore the influence of vibration and time pressure on the monitoring performance and workload. The results show that the vibration (monitoring time and accuracy) has no significant effect on monitoring performance. Both the monitoring time and the workload show rising trends with the increase of the vibrating level. The time pressure has a significant impact on monitoring time and workload, but has no significant impact on accuracy. The monitoring time in the state confirmation task is significantly longer than that of data comparison, but the accuracy difference is not significant. The monitoring performance and workload of DCS operators in the vibrating condition are basically the same as that in the static condition. In the time-pressure condition, the DCS operators' workload is heavy, but the monitoring time is short.

Key words: vibration, time pressure, digital control system (DCS), operator, monitoring performance, workload

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