Relationship between non-technical skills and resilience potential in emergency management

Kitamura, Masaharu*; Oba, Kyoko; Yoshizawa, Atsufumi*

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Improvement of non-technical skill (NTS) of relevant personnel in a nuclear power plant is an issue of crucial importance in ensuring high performance of emergency management. From an aspect of resilience engineering, it has been claimed that four resilience potentials (i.e. the potentials to respond, to monitor, to learn, and to anticipate) must be kept sufficiently high in order to ensure that the organizational performance of emergency management is effective. In this presentation, the relationship between the NTS and resilience potential in the context of emergency management has been examined. Through preceding studies, the authors have been successful in clarifying that the four potentials of plant personnel indeed played crucially important roles in mitigating the severity of the Fukushima-Daiichi accident. In the present study, outcomes of examination of relationship between the four potentials and the cognitive NTS, such as situation awareness and decision making, will be reported.