Björn Wahlström
Selected publications

Human and organisational factors (HOF)

HOF in European nuclear safety: A fifty-year perspective on insights, implementations, and ways forward (download)
Human factors in nuclear power; reflections on 50 years of development in Finland (download)
Human and Organisational Factors in Perspective (download)
Organisational learning – Reflections from the nuclear industry (download)
Assessments of safety culture – to measure or not? (download)
Organisational learning in theory and practice – reflections from the nuclear industry. (download)

Conducting organizational safety reviews – requirements, methods and experience. (download)
Management systems and safety culture; reflections and suggestions for research. (download)
Organisational factors and nuclear safety – issues to address in research and development. (download)
The LearnSafe project; a three year perspective. (download)
LearnSafe – Learning organisations for nuclear safety. (download)
Quality systems: Support or hindrance for learning. (download)
Organisational learning; a path to safety and efficiency. (download)
Issues of safety culture; reflections from the LearnSafe project. (download)
Learning organisations for nuclear safety (LearnSafe). (download)
Learning Organizations for Nuclear Safety. (download)
Assessing the Influence of Organizational Factors on Nuclear Safety. (download)
Organisational Factors; their definition and influence on nuclear safety. (download)
Organisations and their safety processes. (download)
The human component in the safety of complex systems. (download)
Some cultural flavors of safety culture. (download)

Instrumentation and control

Challenges in licensing safety automation (download)
Systems engineering for nuclear I&C (download)
Safety automation (download)
Safety principles and I&C design.
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Differences between analog and digital I&C.
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The IAEA safety principles applied to NPP instrumentation and control.
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Proving absence of CCFs; a case for Open Source.
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Investigating the case of Open Source applications within nuclear power. (download)
Risk assessment and safety engineering; applications for computer systems. (download)
Reflections on recent developments in the field of instrumentation and control. (download)
Progress in instrumentation and control including the man-machine interface. (download)

Nuclear safety

Systemic thinking in support of safety management in nuclear power plants (download)
Safety management – A multi-level control problem (download)
Challenges in performing technical safety reviews of modifications – A case study. (download)
Safety management – a multi-level control problem. (download)
Models, methods and tools for safety management – Experience from Vattenfall. (download)
Research in automation, risk analysis, control rooms and organisational factors; applications to plant life management. (download)
Reflections on regulatory oversight of nuclear power plants. (download)
Safety management challenges and tensions in the European nuclear power industry. (download)
Safety of nuclear power; the case for I&C and HF engineering. (download)
Analysis of challenges to nuclear plant safety management: Finland, Sweden and the European context. (download)
Challenges in the nuclear industry: perspectives from senior managers and safety experts. (download)
Nuclear safety in perspective, final report of the Nordic Nuclear Safety Research project SOS-1. (download)
Views on the Finnish nuclear regulatory guides. (download)
An international benchmark on safety review practices at nuclear power plants. (download)
Finnish and Swedish practices in nuclear safety. (download)
Modernisation for maintaining and improving safety at Nordic nuclear power plants. (download)
Management of safety through performance indicators for operational maintenance. (download)
Safety of nuclear power; who learns from whom? (download)

Other publications

Decisions in complex systems; finding a balance between competing forces. (download)
Risk Informed Approaches for Plant Life Management: Regulatory and Industry Perspectives. (download)
Safety performance measurement in process industries. (download)
Societal rationality; towards an understanding of decision making processes in society. (download)
A discussion of theoretical and practical rationality. (download)
Issues in a world of environmental and societal vulnerability. (download)
Systems safety in the high-tech industrial environments; technology and human reliability. (download)
Modeling of man-machine systems; a challenge for systems analysis. (download)
Models, modelling and modellers; an application to risk analysis. (download)
 
(updated  2.11.2021)