Title: The human factors approach at EDF

Authors: Armand Colas

Addresses: EDF Industry Branch, HR Management Department, Site Cap Ampere, 1, place Pleyel, 93282 Saint Denis Cedex, France

Abstract: At the dawn of the 21st century, French electricity utility EDF is facing a number of major changes, in particular the liberalisation of European energy markets and the restructuring needed to cope with this development. EDF|s approach to human factors (HF) aspects is also undergoing major changes, since people obviously play a predominant role in any organisational structure.

Keywords: human factors; EDF; strategy; challenges; safety; incidents; malfunctions; operating skills; complex risk; critical organisations; France; electricity industry; nuclear industry; HRM; human resource management; nuclear safety.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNKM.2004.005106

International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management, 2004 Vol.1 No.1/2, pp.98 - 109

Published online: 02 Sep 2004 *

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