Human Design Group is responsible for specifying the ergonomics of the EPR control room.
Identify the likely future typical work situations of the operatives (new jobs, new organisation and new procedures compared with other generations of power plants currently in operation);
Inventing the ergonomics of the control room to take account of the new operational requirements specific to EPR operation;
To have a complete specification file for the development in order to begin the engineering and construction phase;
To be able to justify to the Nuclear Safety Authority that the Organisational and Human factors have been properly taken into account.
Intervention
Carrying out an immersion (interviews, analysis of activity and sightings) in the control rooms of power plants in operation:
Gather operational requirements from agents in terms of control room ergonomics;
Formalise feedback on the different ergonomic configurations of existing control rooms and identify areas for improvement and strengths to be maintained in terms of organisation, operational groupings and workstation layout;
Use an iterative, participative design approach to ensure that the operational requirements and needs of each stakeholder are properly taken into account and that the future operator takes ownership of the project;
To specify the ergonomics of the control room (general layout, layout of activity areas and workstations) and to control the physical environment of the room (acoustics, lighting and heat) by proposing solutions adapted to the needs and constraints and/or architectural bias;
To validate the proposed ergonomic solutions for the control room by creating a 1:1 scale model of the future room and recreating situations for a group of drivers;
To propose a design and image concept for the future control room that combines modernity, comfort and quality.
Results
Specification of the layout and the’control room ergonomics (plans, sections, elevations, 3D modelling, virtual tour and ergonomic proof);
Supply of a Dossier de Consultation des Entreprises (DCE) for the fitting out of the control room (technical description, graphics, estimates, completion schedule).
