part PART ONE Nuclear power operations and their environment: culture and inter-organisational relations -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 The social construction of safety / chapter 2 Constructing organisational reliability: the problem of embeddedness and duality / chapter 3 Finnish and Swedish practices in nuclear safety / chapter 4 The cultural context of nuclear safety culture: a conceptual model and field study / chapter 5 Implicit social norms in reactor control rooms / chapter 6 Situational assessment of safety culture / chapter 7 Advanced displays, cultural stereotypes and organisational characteristics of a control room / chapter 8 From theory to practice�on the difficulties of improving human-factors learning from events in an inhospitable environment / chapter 9 Inter-organisational development in the German nuclear safety system -- part PART TWO Nuclear power operations: organisational aspects -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 10 Organisational factors and nuclear power plant safety / chapter 11 Capturing the river: multilevel modelling of safety management1 / chapter 12 The effects of leadership and group decision on accident prevention / chapter 13 Are we casting the net too widely in our search for the factors contributing to errors and accidents? -- part PART THREE Group and individual performance -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 4 TEEN Human performance indicators -- chapter 15 Predicting human error probabilities from the ability requirements of jobs in nuclear power plants / chapter 6 TEEN Self-assessment and learning in nuclear power plant simulation training -- chapter 17 Knowledge acquisition through repeated theoretical and practical training / part PART FOUR Learning from experience -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 18 Ab outline of human factors studies conducted by the Japanese electric power industry -- chapter 19 Human errors in Japanese nuclear power plants: a review of 25 years1 / chapter 20 Human factors as revealed by the use of natural language in near-incidents at nuclear power plants / chapter CHPATER TWENTY-ONE Human factors in nuclear power plant maintenance an empirical study1 -- chapter 22 A review of human error prevention activities at Kansai Electric's nuclear power stations.