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describing as “unacceptable” his argument that “the statistics from other
facilities are different from yours. Your methodology is therefore flawed”. The
supervisor asked the expert to draw on the incident reports, which he did. The
supervisor also asked the expert to explain what he was expecting from the
licensee when he wrote that “at the least, documenting OEF in the area of
human factors is clearly indispensable.” The human factors expert’s response
was to withdraw the sentence.
These arguments warranted the human factors expert’s request to include a
human factors chapter in the annual safety report. His ...